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Issue with the Tennant
Hi all was hoping someone could help us out with an issue we have. We are renting out our property through a letting agency and we were called to inform us that a kitchen tap was leaking. When this was being fixed the tenant informed the worker that the fitted wardrobe door in the spare room has come off its runners and…
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Advice needed for 1st time buyers
Hi all, My OH and I are starting to look into buying a house for the 1st time. We're earning around 35-40k between us and have about 8k saved for a deposit. We have spoken to an independent broker who was very helpful but he suggested that we wait until we can afford a 15% deposit. We're looking at houses in the region of…
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who would you sell to?
This is the latest scenario: House asking price 147,500. Bought for 117,000 years ago. Currently renting and paying mortgage, need a buyer that wont pull out but want to maximise money (of course!). Wife 5 months pregnant, want everything sorted before birth. Upward chain is not a problem as renting for 6 months before…
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Return of deposit
My daughter paid a deposit to secure a room in a house that was being let by the owner. Because of some differences of opinion she has decided not to move in. Where does she stand in regards to the deposit she has paid? There was no written agreement. He has said he will pay back half.
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Previous owner's debt. desperately seek advice.
:confused: Hi Guys, We are desperately seeking advice. We bought this flat on Dec 2007. We received a letter yesterday from city council saying that previous owner received a housing assistant grant around 4000 pounds for repairing the roof in 2005-2006. The grant is subject to he will live here for 10 years. But he sold…
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question for estate agents re offer on house
Hi, can I ask any estate agents, and anyone else who might be able to help! I will shortly be putting in an offer on a property. The agents are asking for proof of how property will be financed (ie sight of mortgage offer). Reason being that there are several interested parties and property is going to best and final…
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Flat rental costs not as advertised
Hello, I have paid around £170 in fees to a letting agent to go through the credit check process, based on viewing a flat and the information provided in the advertisement. I have not signed the AST agreement. It turns out that part of the information provided in the listing on the website was incorrect, and that there are…
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DIY HIP for flat sales???
I need to get 4 HIPS done for 4 newly created flats. the flats are all in the same large detached house so it seems to me that I should either be able to get a cheaper set of hips from a hips provider as a lot of the data must surely duplicate (council searches will be the same for example). or perhaps I should do the HIPS…
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Best way to find out about local reposessions / urgent sales
Hi, I've another thread in this forum about taking an interest only mortgage against the equity to fund a BTL purchase which has been very useful. My intention was to buy from the Market but a poster indicates as a cash buyer i should really be looking at repos or people needing immediate sales. Can anyone please give me…
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Want to let my property and buy a new one to live in...
Hi Guys I have a First Direct Offset mortgage (5.29% 4 years left on it) on my £115K mortgage - 19 years left on the mortgage. The house would be realistically valued at £265K, although I think £270K+ could be a possibility. We want to move to a bigger house, but we know our house would be a good 'renter' in this area and…
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help-need advice!
Had lots of bad luck financially in last couple of years dna dto cut a lng story short the recession is now hitting us really bad with my husbands business folding. Put our house up for sale and sold for asking price giving us £10,000 equity. We have a house abroad worth £100,00 up for sale and a house abroad with a…
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Renting in Southampton- advice please!
Hi, I am going to uni this year, and I need to find a place to rent in Southampton. My max budget is about 550 per month before bills. That would be the absolute tops. I need some advice on what kind of areas to look into. I saw a nice place in St Mary's for 470 a month, but apparently this is bad area?? I'm also…
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Need help quickly!
At the start of the previous academic year 4 of us signed a joint contract to rent a house for twelve months and handed over £300 each as a security deposit. Unfortunately one person dropped out of university and decided they did not want to rent the house anymore. They made small efforts to find a replacement housemate…
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Madness !
My buyer is not returning calls by their solicitor or estate agent. Now letters have been sent to try and establish contact. Im utterly gobsmacked ! We are literally at exchange of contracts and then completion. Luckily for me im not moving to a new home , no chain and no mortgage so their are no knock on effects for me.…
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Owning a student-house
I am about to start university in the next few weeks. While packing today a thought crossed my mind. From about February/March (still a while away i know) we have been advised to start looking for 2nd year accommodation. 5 students (Close trustworthy friends) each with £3400 for accommodation, over 2 years = £17,000 I'm…
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Status of landlord
We are letting a house which is owned by me i.e. I am on the deeds. We want my wife to take the income however. A letting agent has told me that she cannot be named as the landlord on the tenancy agreement and therefore cannot have the income paid in her name. Does anyone know if it is legally binding that the landlord…
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meeting with solicitors tomorrow...
FTB buying a house, meeting with solicitor and have been asked to take passports as ID to prove we're not money laundering or something... Well my passport has decided to go awol, was sure it was in my "safe box." Does anybody know if alternative ID will be adequate, have bank statements, drivers license with counterpart,…
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Right to Buy Scheme Rip off?
My partner and I live in a nice council house in the Norfolk area with our 2 children (3 & 12 years). Recently the council sent a building contractor to survey all the council houses in our area to carry out maintenance and repairs to their properties. A number of repairs were listed including a new back fence, PVC window…
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sell your house for cash in 7 days??
hi has anyone heard of or better yet used the companies that buy your house from you for cash so you can sell quick or buy it from you and you can rent it back? i dont want to rent back i just want to sell quick as i have found a house i love. We dont have a morgage as we paid cash for our house. i just wanted to know if…
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planning permission on our conversion?
We have a property we have been renting out for a while and the tenant has agreed to purchase this off us. We had the garage converted to a home office studio and buyer is asking when it was converted as the solicitor might ask regarding planning? What would you advise we do in this situation? We did not get planning…
