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Best places to advertise for a lodger?
I've put an ad on spare room but have to sign up + pay to send any messages, going to try gumtree as well. Called the local paper and they both charge around £40 for a small ad for a week, I thought that was quite a lot. So just here to ask if there is anywhere else, and whether I will have to pay much to get a response.…
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Negotiating with persimmon homes
Hi All, Long time lurker first time post, so sorry if its in the wrong place. I wonder if you can help me... I have had our home valued by 4 different agents who each agree an asking price of £99,950 with a view to getting offers of between £95k - £97k would easily sell on the open market. Me & the wife have seen a…
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Deposits/Valuations-I don't Get It.
There seem to be many threads on here where people have paid a deposit on a property and then the valuation has come in lower and they cannot get the mortgage and the seller will not return the deposit. The bit that I don't get is, why pay a deposit before getting a valuation done? I cannot think of any other situation…
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Has anyone used moveme.com?
Hi Has anyone used this site? www.moveme.com We are about to move and it looks good.... almost to good to be true, just wondering if anyone has any stories about it, i don't want to put my trust in something that doesn't work thanks Shell
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Section 21
HI ,JUST GOT SECTION 21 VIA EMAIL TODAY JUNE 01 . IT IS DATED MAY 31. LL STATES HARD COPY WILL ARRIVE IN POST AND WE MUST VACATE ON JULY 31. IS THIS ACEPTABLE AS FULL 2 MONTHS NOTICE:confused:
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question about electronic funds transfer.
Just sent my deposit to the convency, YAY! My dad gifted me my the deposit so went to the bank to transfer it today straight to the conveyancing peoples account! I told him it shouldnt cost him anything because on the solicters fee list there is a charge of 41.41 for electronic money transfer fee. His bank charged him £20…
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I'm a tenant - Get me out of here!!
I am currently a tenant, I rent a flat through an agent but it is landlord managed which means that for any maintenance or issues within the flat we are to contact the landlord directly. Unfortunately he is very slippery & has moved abroad (which makes contacting him to deal with maintenance issues very tough). Our agents…
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Problem tenants - not paid - require eviction now!
All, I'm hoping that someone on here can help me specifically to my situation (I have read through several other similar situations). My tenants haven't paid for over 2 months, and last month, they said that the money had been set up via a Standing Order and that their bank transferred it into the wrong account (lie).…
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Best way to find tenant without 10% lettings agent
Hi I'm looking to rent out may flat and am fully prepared to manage it myself. In order to find a tenant, I would like to advertise on sites like primelocation and rightmove but these seem to require going through an agent. Are there agents around who do not charge ~10% but will just advertise the property for a flat rate?…
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Not sure if this is in the right section....the road to river cottage
Hello I just wondered if there was anyone out there who wants to have a house in the country with land, where they live now and what they are doing to get there. We live in a small 2 bed town house and we also have an allotment. Our mortgage is quite small at the moment due to o/h having paid off a bulk with some savings.…
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How Far Overpriced are Houses?
Hi Guys, Some advice please, getting close to our deposit total now and are beginning to view some houses, we really like a house in a nearby village and are going to view it on Wednesday, its up for £124,950 which is our budget level, with the vendor offering 5k cashback on completion of sale as an incentive. I had a…
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First Time Moving Out, Rent or Buying Advice?
Hi all, As the title suggests, im to old to live at home now (24! lol) and am looking to move out with my girlfriend. as far as my knowledge goes it is very limited, all i have is the general preceptions anyone who knows this little has which is, buying a house, requires a mortgage which would be extremley difficult to get…
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First Time Buyer Help
Dear All, I have ghosted around the site for a while (thanks for all the advice) but now am getting closer; So just a bit of help needed for a first time buyer, we have put in an offer of full asking price (which has been accepted) but the owner refused to take it off of the market, also the agent hasn’t updated the…
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Advice - The freeholder of my property filed for administration
Can anybody give me some advice? I live in a flat built 2 years ago. The developer owns the freehold. Today I discovered that last week the freeholder/developer filed for insolvency/adminsitration. At present there are issues with the buildings which they've known about for 2 years but havent done anything and Im going to…
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Getting the Garden Done!
Hi, I moved into a new rented property last week. The garden is massively overgrown and the outside storage area is full of garden rubbish. It is obvious to me that the letting agents did not do a full check out report for the previous tenants as the inventory states that there is only a BBQ in the storage area, rather…
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No morgage becouse of very poor credit score (too many searches!no debt!)
I was refused morgage for 80000 becouse there were too many searches in our credit report (16- most of them credit accounts, phones etc- no debt, overdrafts etc) and we did not enroll for voting at our new place! I have got 15000 in savings and NEVER HAD ANY DEBT OR OVERDRAFT!! I did Experian credit report after and I have…
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*Help Needed* new build - no drop curb for driveway
Sorry if this is in wrong section ..... It seemed the most appropriate place ! Just purchased a new build property and on Friday the development was finally finished. I spoke with the site manager regarding a "drop curb" for our driveway. the driveway currently does not have a drop curb and they placed a temporary ramp of…
