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Breaking tenacy agreement
Hi, Myself and my partner have been in our property since end of August last year. Our tenancy agreement is for a year. Where we live is very noisy. If it's not people next door having garden parties or the people upstairs playing load music and jumping on the floor, it the drunk people that stop outside our house on the…
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Worried about credit check
Hi all, Me and my family have been privately renting in the same property for just over 2 1/2 years, however due to debt problems we have decided that the rent and council tax is too high. So we are trying to look for a cheaper house to rent. My concern though is having to go through a credit check as me and my partner…
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Offer suggestions
Hi all There is a house on the market that is £135,000. It needs upgrading so do you think buy putting in an offer of £115,000 is too low? Whats the maximum do you think you should deduct of a house? Your opinions would be much appreciated. Thanks for reading.
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Ae we being played?
We made on an offer on a house that is in need of a complete refurb (probate sale). It was on for 220k and has been since June 08 with only 1 very low offer. In my opinion it was vastly overpriced and the estate agent said the feedback from the other viewings have said similar. Anyway we offered 175k, (we are cash buyers…
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Private Tenancy, Unhelpful Letting Agents
Hi All, Really hoping someone can offer me some advice on what i should do about my current housing situation. I moved into the property privatly rented through a letting agent on March 11th this year. Prior to moving in i had very little contact with the letting agent. I put an advert up on gumtree looking for a property…
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Need advice about renting on low income
Hello i'm new here. Really need some advice about renting a new house. I'm expecting a baby in less than 9 weeks and starting to panic about finding a house to move into because I preferably want to be moved in a few weeks before he is due. Last week I had found a really nice house that was within mine and my fianc!s price…
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Important change to tenancy agreement - with no notice!
Hi everyone, I really hope someone can give me some advice (I'm going to contact CAB on Monday but will have to wait for an appt) Basically we rent a flat above a large shop and have done for the past 3 years. Because of the layout of the building, all the gas central heating system is controlled by the boiler in the shop…
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what do i do, baby on the way
in 2005 my dad and i jointly organised a mortage on a 1 bedroom house for 65k, now a few yeras later im married and now the wife is pregant. I now have a max of 2 years to find a bigger house and I just acnt fathom how. My salary is 24k a year with OT, my house is probably worth 70-80k atm. Houses are still just so…
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Council have asked for deposit back from a property I rented privately 5yrs ago!
Any advice gratefully received please on this matter.... I rented a property in 2004 from a private landlord, through an estate agency. I had a real nightmare finding a landlord who would accept tenants in receipt of benefits, so settled for what I could get. A run-down 2b/r bungalow in need of complete refurbishment, but…
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Homelet Checks
Hi Hope someone can help me I have just found a house and we have paid the holding dep to the LA today and filled out a homelet reference . I have a few questions , Although I dont have any CCJ's or defaults i do have some late payments from catolgues etc , a few months back which in turn gives me a poor credit score . I…
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House Sharing.... Convenient?
Hey guys. Well due to a huge change of plan at the last minute, instead of renting a lovely 2 bedroom with my wonderful OH, I'm going to have to move on my own. Due to simply not being able to afford the £550 a month + bills and general life stuff on my own for a 2 bedroom flat type thing, I've been evaluating easy…
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I've never declared tax on Rental property, and just got letter from HMRC!!!!
When I bought the property 6 years ago the agent told me not to worry about tax, so Ive never declared any rental income, and now Ive to ring them before this tuesday??? Is there any easy way out of this? Obviously I'll have to start declaring from now, but will they hit me for the previous years, and what info do I have…
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solicitor started work on their own
Hello, This is my first post. Currently, in process of buying a repossessed property. EA recommended a solicitor but he is charging significantly more than a solicitor recommended by a friend. I never send any paperwork to the solicitor recommended by EA and neither requested them to do conveyancing on my behalf but I find…
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Buying a repossession - questions re contract
Hi I've read some of the other threads but can't see an answer to this. If you want to buy a repossessed property, and the vendors say they will use an amended version of the standard contract of sale. (If that is the correct term), do you have to go along with it? The main concern is that they will not guarantee vacant…
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Offer help please
Hi, We have had an offer on our house which are 99% sure to accept. We have found a house we both love and its on the market for £155k. Nothing remotely similar on the street has sold in the past 2 years. Last was in Oct 2005 for £170k. The house has been on the market since Dec last year and EA has told us that the couple…
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Renting out a mortgaged property- tax issues
I am currently renting out my mortgaged property and will be renting a property for myself in order to live another town. What implications will this have in terms of tax? Will the rent I receive be classed as income despite paying out rent?
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Indemnity Policy - HELP!
Hi, We are selling our house and we have been asked by our buyer to pay for an indemnity on the property as there's a potential risk to flood or subsidence. Is this right? - is this something we should pay for them?? Our buyers are being unreasonable about some other stuff and I would like some advice on what we should be…
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Agreeing to take house off the market?
Hello, Hoping for a bit of advice. We've had an offer on our property, which we have rejected, but the guy is coming back tonight and has pretty much said he'll make another offer. He did mention though, about taking the house off the market if we accpet his offer. My questions is, when is the usual time to do this? I'm…
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Landlords gone bancrupt
Hi, I wonder if someone could offer me some advice, i have been renting a property since last April at first i has a 3 month contract and was told get another one when it finished as of now i still don't have one. over the past few months i have received 2 letters addressed to occupier notifying me my landlord is getting…
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change of conditions in a rented place
I rent a studio in a house which is splited in studios and simple rooms. On the ground flour there are 2 studio and a common kitchen, upstair 3 rooms. When I was shown the place by the Landlord's agent (not estate agent, a person who only deals with this LL propreties) I was told that I could use the common kitchen. Now,…
