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Help With Rent Arrears
Hi Everyone. Writing this on behalf of my mother who I live with. We live in a 2 bed semi property, renting through an estate agents for £120. Have looked at other houses, either too small or too expensive! Moved here last year after living in a council house - mum and her ex partner (my father) split and he has stayed in…
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Help! Bad debts/Credit,Trying to sell to rent
Help please,Myself and my wife are 18k in debt.We have a debt managment plan in place to pay it all off in 9 years.Our house is worth £175000,our mortgage is £160000.We have mortgage arrears of 7k (Around 6 Months). We are trying to sell so we can rent somewhere,How difficult will this be as we are in a total mess. we have…
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first time selling house - advice please
HiI had 3 agents round last week and decided to go with Halifax. Their fees are 1.8% but not prepared to go down despite my best efforts (any tips?)Anyway I now need to get HIP and will probably use one of those recommended on here. Sorry for my ignorance but if something shows up on the HIP (e.g. damp) do I need to get…
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Is moving house in 6 weeks achievable
aghhhhhh! Viewer came to my house on Saturday and put in the full asking price this afternoon which I accepted. They want to be in in 6 weeks as that is when the rental on their property is up. I don't even know where I want to be let alone seen a property. Question is - do you think it is possible to find a property and…
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Unfair Fees from Letting Agency
Hi This is my first post, and i wonder if anybody could offer any advice or opinions. We have been renting a property for 2 years from a letting agency. Our rent is always on time or early. However this month, for the first time our rent was paid in 3 days late, due to the fact that I had lost my job and needed to borrow…
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Currently in flat share, need to leave, help!
Hello In April I started renting a 2 bed flat with a friend. I now need to move out for a number of reasons, and am wondering what the best way to do it is. We signed a 6 month tenancy which ends the middle of next month. I have told my flat mate that I need to move out, and that will stay up until the end of October. She…
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Report result: loadbearing walls removed. Vendor had no approval. What should I do?
I am sorry for a bit lengthy message as I am not very good at explaining technical issues.:o But I really need your input and appreciate very much your taking time to go through my post.:A The vendor of a 1900 terraced house made some structural alteration about 20 years ago. He did not declare these alterations on the…
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Big favour - property bee
Hello Could any of the nice people here do me a favour and look up a property…
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Offer on repossession - can estate agents do this?
Hi all, Brilliant forum - has been invaluable to me for mortgage advice tips. I have just been in to see a local estate agents to prequalify myself financially to make an offer on a repossessed property. All the finance stuff is in place (50% deposit - lucky me!). I have an Agreement in Principle set up through London and…
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fed up also
been told today by EA, that the chap buying our house has pulled out, we are about 2 weeks away from completion. The owners of the house we are buying are prepared to take ours in part exchange, but at £9k, under what we were selling for. from the sale of ours, we will have about £60k equity. would welcome people's…
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Fed up :(
EA has just rung to say that the house we are buying (vendor agreed to take it off the market upon strength of our offer) has had interest from someone who has offered £9k more than us without a viewing! It's a probate case and the vendors want him to view property tomorrow and see if he def will pay the price he…
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Which is the best buyer??
It appears that we might have 2 interested buyers offering on our property very soon. :j It's taken 11 months to get to this stage so I'm not holding my breath. Our property is 100 years old, so has the usual signs of wear and tear, but is generally sound. The 1st one is a young FTB'er with a mortgage in place. The 2nd…
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Council starting major works before consultation period finished?
I have a leasehold property (a converted house, now 2 maisonnettes)where the city council is the freeholder. They have recently sent a consultation notice about re-roofing the property, which me and the owner of the other property in the block have written in objecting to as it does not need doing (to cut a long story…
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Notice period on tenancy agreement help needed *updated-More advice needed*
Hi, I don't know if this is the coreect place for this but i am hoping that someone will be able to help. We are in our rented place on a 6 months lease, we have now been in here for just over 5 months. We have been offered a bigger house by a relative so my husband went in today to give our months notice in. The letting…
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New house gas and electric
I got the keys to the house I've bought today (Woohoo and yahboo to the man who called me a time waster when I viewed his house) and have took meter readings but can't think what to do. I have an idea of who the bills are with but can I just ring who I want to have energy with? My normally reasonably organised brain has…
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How much cleaning can landlady reasonably bill me for?
I'm about to move out of my rented flat, and my landlady has said (purely over the phone at this point) that she expects she'll want to have the carpets professionally cleaned, and that I should be the one to pay for this. Now, I'm far from the world's most immaculate cleaner, but I've kept the carpets in good order and I…
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Re-negotiating price after surveyors report
Hi there, i need some advice on how best to deal with re-negotiation. I put an offer in on a house which was accepted and then had a full structural survey taken out. The surveyor I instructed has found several issues with the house (as to be expected given it's about 100 years old). He has given a ball-park figure of…
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Tennants rights with a section 21 notice
I have been renting the same house for 3 years while the owners where abroad this was done through an agent. They have returned and are now living in Scotland and want to sell the property I live in. I have been sent a section 21 giving me 2 months notice "Not a Problem as I am lucky enough to be buying a house anyway".…
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First time buyers request advice
Well, me and the wife are about to set out looking for houses. We think we can afford a 2-3 bed terrace/semi where we live (we have a mortgage broker friend looking into what we could get). We have our first booking to look round a house (3 bed semi) tomorrow, and so was just after advice as to what to ask/say/not say.…
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House to kids - Can you help?
I wonder whether you could help? My Dad owns his house outright and he is thinking of letting my Brother and his family move in to it whilst my Brother is going to rent his own house out and fund a smaller one level place for my Dad. The other 2 siblings (me and my Sister) are ok with this providing everything is written…
