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Where Can I Find a Tenant?
Hello, I am in need of renting out my flat, is there a hard and fast website to advertise on, or does anyone know of any decent places to advertise? Kind Regards Richard.
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Any advice on ridiculous invoice amount from management company (HA)?
We’ve nearly completed on our sale of our (owned by housing partnership) maisonette. Now, there’s work that needs to be paid for which is outstanding, which we’re totally fine with covering as we wouldn’t dream of passing this bill onto our buyers. The property is ex-council so the LL (I’ll call them landlord for…
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Renting deposit
Hi, A couple of years ago, I started renting a house which was arranged through an agency which holds my deposit. After the original contract expired as the agent wanted more cash to arrange another year, I talked to the owner and we moved to a month to month agreement (i forget the exact term). Now that I don't have a…
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Buying a Garage in London
Hi, I was thinking of buying a garage (cash purchase) and renting it out in London (Zone 1). Do you think it is a good investment opportunity? Or is it better to put that money as a deposit and buy a flat instead? Please suggest as I am a first time buyer? Thank you so much.
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Second Viewing in a couple of hours...what shall I ask? Link to property inc.
Hi guys, Been lurking on here for a few months now with great help and have searched for second viewing questions but nothing that helpful came up. This is our second viewing on this house. It's in a great area of Cardiff, and acc to houseprices in the 'boom' in 2007 3 of the neighbouring houses sold for 270k+. This is an…
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Removals Bromsgrove Area
Hi, Does anyone have any recommendations of a removal firm in the Bromsgrove area (Bromsgrove, Worcestershire) (UK -> UK) Many thanks
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Bond been returned after repossesion - Renting
Hi, I have recently been evicited from a rented property due to landlord not paying his mortgage. It all happenend pretty fast as I had three weeks to move once the eviction order came through TA agreed that no more rent should be paid. I found a place and moved in last week after all credit checks were passes with new TA…
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Advise on owning two houses
I am looking for some advise for a family member. My father in law owns his house outright (no mortgage) however is in the process of having a new house build from scratch. He is under the impression that he needs to sell his current house before completion of the new build as he will be hit with capital gains tax. I would…
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DPS -Earliest Contractual End Date
Hi, I've just moved flats and received the DPS letter from my landlord. Now my contract is 12 months wef 15/05 with a 6 month break clause with 2 months notice) and the earliest contractual end date on the letter is 14/05/10. Surely it should say 14/01/10? I don't really want to make a fuss but is this going to affect…
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New Build Part Ex - Do you have any clout with bartering the price down?
Hi Newbie here, (but been lurking for ages) I was beaten to a new build part ex with a builder who accepted a cash buyer over me (fair enough). I am now waiting to see if other houses on the development drop further as every single house of the design I'm looking at is unsold. That to me says they are well overpriced. I…
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Which property?
I’m going through my wits ends here guys. I had seen a property I was interested in which sold – gutted. It has gone on and off the market a couple of times now, getting my hopes up to be squashed! Over the weekend I spotted another property, which I have not stopped thinking about. Now here is my dilemma, the first…
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Viewing property with builder - poss damp?
Hello We have found a property we are interested in, but it needs a fair bit doing to it. We would like to do most of it ourselves but wanted to look around with a builder to get an idea of costs, and to see if there is anything we have missed, with a view to negotiating the price! The EA pointed out a couple of areas…
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Advice Urgently Needed Sold To Rent Back!
Has anybody been in this same situation that can offer advice urgently?? We originally purchased our home in 1999. In 2006 due to a change in circumstances and drop in income and having explored many options, we decided we would sell to a company to rent back, this way we could stay in our home and reduce our outgoings. As…
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Part Ex with an Ea?
Just a quickie! I am currently tied in with my EA for another 3 weeks and am considering P/ex with a builder. Would the EA claim they had sold my house and therefore demand payment?
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tenant check
Hi, We paid our landlord the tenant check fees for a rental property. After these checks came back fine we were told we could have the house if we paid a holding fee which would secure the property for us. We were given a date which we could move in and all was good. Later that day we phoned around the various utility…
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Early marriage breakdown
A close relative's marriage has broken down less than 2 years into a 100%mortgage. Relative, with well paid job, has been paying mortgage easily for several months and soon to be ex has signed an affidavit to the effect that he has no objection to relative becoming sole owner of property. Mortgage lender seems to be…
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Landlord not giving back deposit, but a twist with it!
Guys This is a long story and i can't find any similar situtaions, I rented a small commercial workshop from a company (lets call it A) my landlord was called John who owend company A , the company were subletting it from the another company who owned the building ( lets call it B) . Compnay A had dissolved their status as…
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Misleading information from estate agents
Hi everyone, I'm in the process of buying a flat on the first (and last) floor of a 2 flat house in Clapham Junction with a share of freehold. Now, before placing an offer we asked the estate agent to check whether the underroof space was demised to the top floor flat (the one we're buying) and he got back with an email…
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Buying an underpinned house
First poster so please be gentle! Also long post warning but I would really appreciate your help/advice/experience! Myself and my partner are FTB and have had an offer accepted on a semi detached house. Our offer was 35000 lower than the original asking price (25000 less than the new asking price) so we felt we got a good…
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How accurate are the house values on Zoopla?
Hi, I have been looking at the zoopla value's for our house and others we are interested in and was just wondering how accurate others had found them? Thank you in advance.
