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Static Caravan or Other Temporary Accommodation
Don't know if I am posting this in the right section. We have an apartment in Spain with a mortgage on our UK home which we must repay when we retire in 2 years time. At that time we will need to sell our UK home to make up the balance on our savings to pay off the mortgage as we want to keep our apartment in Spain and…
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Two Estate Agents One Property Saga
Hi all I have been a long time reader (great advice thank you) but haven't found the need to post till now! We are first time buyers and have just brought (so we thought) a property, offer agreed, solicitor appointed, mortgage signed off, passed the underwriters and just awaiting the survey now, However the other estate…
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Sorting out insurance in new home
I am trying to sort out buildings insurance for the new home. I get this when I am trying to do an online quote assumptions "Has never been affected by subsidence, heave, landslip or flood and there is no such history in the area surrounding the property". I am not sure what to put as it says in my survey that sub soil in…
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LA taking everyone for a ride.
I started looking for my own place beginning of may and found a large 1 bed flat so took it. Paid admin fee, 6 weeks deposit and 1 months rent all with in a week, was asked to move in sooner than I initially stated (22nd June) as the LL needed someone in ASAP so I moved in 23rd May. 23rd June get call from LL to say that…
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lodger and telling mortgage company?
Just wondering if I rent a room out in a house ive brought, do the mortgage company need to know? Id obviously still live in the house...!
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Local houses for local people.
A bit late in the day :confused: Young families to leapfrog housing waiting list * * By Bob Roberts 29/06/2009 John Healey (Pic:DM) Local people with strong ties to their community are to queue-jump council house waiting lists as part of Gordon Brown's relaunch plans today. In a major revamp of policy, town halls are to be…
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Help Needed - Final stage of house price negotiation
We have spent the last couple of weeks trying to negotiate on buying a house and have just had news that our "final offer" isn't quite enough, and they would like an extra £2500 to seal the deal, so that they can buy the property they want. Not much money in the scheme of things, I know, but then that works both ways. The…
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Estate Agent Using My House Sale as Advertising
Hi. Can anyone advise me please? I have recently sold my property - not yet vacated house. I came home from work the other day and a neighbour handed me a card that had been put through her door. Basically it showed a picture of my property and was a blurb about how the estate agent had sold a property in the area and they…
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Property-buying organisations
I am looking at selling my house quiet quickly as was looking at using a Property buying organisation. Has anyone ever used one of these and is it worth using one?
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retaining walls
We are owners of a property whereby there is an upper and lower garden. we own the lower garden. There is a retaining wall (in mild disrepair ) 'supporting' the upper and 'protecting' our lower garden garden. Have gone through lease and conveyancing drawing -and it is not clear who is responsible for what bit of wall.…
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Renting out a room
I have decided to rent out a room and make some extra cash. Does anyone have any ideas on where to advertise? I have an ad on spareroom.co.uk so far but any other ideas, or inspiration would be most welcome. Many thanks
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Is it legal to withold offers from vendor?
Hi guys, Never posted in here before so please be gentle :o I'm very interested in purchasing a property that's only been on the market for a couple of days. I saw it last night and placed an offer this morning, to be told 3 higher offers have been placed. I said ok, no problem please put my offer to the vendor anyway, it…
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Repossesions
HI there, we are currently trying to buy a house (my partner and I to live In). Not by design about half of the properties we have been interested in have been repossessions. They are generally priced initially at the type of price we can afford, and being a jobber builder I could deal with most problems associated with…
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Not recieved my Tenancy Agreement
Hi All, I rented this property on 16th June 2008 on 6 month AST furnished (with washing, fridge, cooker, etc) that I have been renewing on 6 monthly basis. Usually, the agent would call me a month earlier to check my intentions and then forward the tenancy agreement for signing. This time May 2009 when the renewal was due…
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Moving out charges for trees?
Hi, We finally found a nice house to rent, did the final inventory for the previous house today, and the estate agent told us that the landlord mentioned something bad about the trees at the back the property. The trees are going over the fence onto a car park and a side walk between houses (but somewhere where only our…
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First time landlord - silly question
We are first time landlords who rent out our house through an agency. We are going on holiday in a couple of weeks - i am presuming we should let the agency know we are going - do we need to make any arrangements for dealing with things whilst abroad or would an agent deal with it? They have our mobile numbers but…
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Surveys
Hi all, my buyers mortgage lender is waiting on the surveyor to go to my property, its been 3 weeks now and still no show and I am getting increasingly frustrated... I phoned the bank themselves and asked how long the average waiting time is - and they said it could be 6 weeks! I know this maybe fairly normal but just…
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Broken lift in flats - no one wants to pay to fix it
I have a client who is 90 and in a block of flats where the lift is broken, the managing agents cannot get all the members to agree to pay to fix the lift. Whos responsibility is it to pay to get this lift working? any ideas gratefully received, this chap is 90 and now housebound, I need to try and get this sorted before…
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Buying dream house - but on ex-landfill???
Hi folks, The environmental search provider will not provide the certificate to say the property is not on contaminated land. The site was used from 1950s-1982 as landfill waste for ceramics such as clays, crockery etc. (Wedgewood factory not far away). There is no evidence of any contaminated land yet they say they can't…
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First offer
Hi I viewed a house on Saturday that has been on the market 4 wks at £127500. Im going tomorrow for a second viewing and assuming I still want it,am wondering how much to offer first time.I think the house is well worth the money and am willing to pay the asking price but would like to get it a bit cheaper if I can. I dont…
