House buying, renting & selling

Discussion List

• Buyer gone AWOL - urgent advice please

  Hi, in a chain of 4 with cash buyer below us, and off to rent at the top... Our vendors had difficulty finding somewhere to move to intially, so the whole chain had delays. When that became apparent, in order to not lose our buyer unnecessarily we asked our EA to explain that we were keen to not upset them, so could they…

• No Inventory/statement of condition - renting.

  We are renting a property and it's done directly with the LL (who lives away). He has put our deposit into the 'tenancy deposit scheme' thingy so that is OK, BUT, they never provided us with a statement of condition or inventory at the beginning of the let - we've been in almost 2 years. They've also never done an…

• Ongoing payments to letting agents

  We helped my Father-in-law move into a rented flat 5 months ago - He is disabled and on disability benefits so I am a joint tennent although I dont live with him. We have recieved a letter from the letting agents today asking us what out intentions are regarding tennency. It stated that if we want to sign for another 12…

• Excessive tenacy deposit charge and admin fees

  Hi all I recently left rented accommodation and have been stung by a letting agent for £260 of my rent deposit. They charged £160 for carpet cleaning as well as a (in some ways) more reasonable £50 for cleaning and a whopping £25 admin fee for organising each contract. They have invoices from both professional cleaning…

• Given up with Bellway

  We wanted to part ex our house for a new Bellway property, after leaving our details they sent a valuer out from an independant EA, since then we haven't heard a peep from them. I phoned the main office to be told someone would ring back me back, but nothing! Really annoyed with this now as we're holding of on putting ours…

• How long til I get a completion date?!

  Me and my partner are 1st time buyers - Our offer was accepted on a leasehold flat (with no chain) exactly 7-weeks ago. At that time we were told completion date would be approx 4-6 weeks as there was no chain! 7-weeks down the line we still don't have any clue when this will be, the solicitor won't take my calls, and when…

• LL failing/refusing to provide gas certificate - next steps please?

  Ok, the situation is that my son took tenancy of a house August 2008. We were told at the time there was a gas certificate in place, but on going through his papers it seems he was not given a copy. Fast forward to Sept 2009. Son rings LL and reminds him GC is over-due. LL says he will chase it up and get back to him. No…

• Tenancy Agreement ended...now what?

  In May this year, I moved into a rented house (through a letting agency). For a couple of reasons, I paid the 6 months rent upfront. A month or two after moving in, I had a letter saying the property was now being managed by another letting agency. I promptly phoned the new LA to ask what would happen about the rent I'd…

• House we're buying had a bad fire 10 years ago - any cause for concern?

  We're in the process of buying a house which had a bad fire 10 years ago that badly damaged most of the first floor (some internal walls replaced, water damage, rewiring required, two new beams in roof). Given that this happened 10 years ago and it has long since been repaired and renovated - should we be concerned? We've…

• Tenant - Professionally cleaning carpets/Contract?

  We are currently renting (long story, but own a house but renting that out due to work/location). We were fairly desperate to get into current rental accom as we didn't have much time to sort out and so quite hastily signed the tenancy agreement. Was perusing the other day and notice it states we have to have all carpets…

• Buy to let mortgage 09/11/09

  Hi all, im new to this forum and also new to buy to let mortgages so please excuse me if my questions are rather simple. I am interested in buying my neighbours house, as a buy to let. I have never done before but hear that its really hard to get a good deal these days, and that you need a large deposit, and that its hard…

• Deposit Return Timeframe?

  We've just moved out of a rental property and into our first bought place :D The deposit with our old rental property was held by a deposit scheme and it's been almost 2 weeks since we checked out of the old place and we still haven't got the deposit back. I called the letting agent today and was told that they are waiting…

• Exchange problems

  Hi I am currently in the process of buying and selling, the only chain is our buyer and the lady we are buying from. We were due to exchange on Friday, but couldn't as our buyer didn't have their deposit sorted, our solicitor said it would have to be today or tomorrow, he has been in contact with their solicitors today and…

• problems with the survey

  we have put in an offer on a house we see as our forever house, it was built in 1901 and although it's not perfect as we want it we can see the potential. we have had our accepted and just had the results of the survey... these are what they found: 1)Electrical test and implementation of all recommendations for upgrading…

• Rental property-no oven

  We reported the oven door being faulty in August, nothing was done. Oven door completely fell off a few weeks ago (potentially dangerous), someone came out to see it , but we are still waititing for it to be fixed. We will leave the property in December, so I'm wondering if the landlord is deliberately holding out. My…

• 15 year old boiler never serviced

  Hi We're selling our house and a colleague at work suggested that we might want to get our boiler serviced prior to getting that all elusive offer. The boiler works fine (always has done), does not give off CM but looks very old, dusty and grimy behind and has never been serviced. Its also behind 2 kitchen cupboards which…

• Selling Home HELP!!!

  Me and my partner are thinking of selling our mid terraced house in wigan, we have had halifax and mhl around to value the property. Mhl valued it at 63,950 but was happy to put it on the market at 74,950. There costs fixed fee 1,250 plus vat, 295 plus vat hip pack, 350 plus vat conveyancing. Plus solicitors fees? Halifax…

• When is it reasonable to withold rent?

  One of my sons is at Uni and since September they have had lots of issues with the house they are renting. Furniture infested with beetles, filthy carpets, no hot water in one bathroom and a kettle supplied to deal with the issue,:eek: problems with boiler, and now no heating. Agent has put most of the above right,except…

• Making an Offer Strategy

  Hi All, My wife and I have seen a house that we really like and want to make an offer. We are first-time-buyers Obviously we would like to get the house for as little as possible and are willing to go close to asking price because it ticks all the boxes. Based on all the factors we believe asking price is 5-7% over valued.…

• Rent deposit difficulties - court advice needed!

  Hello People.. Hopefully somebody can give me some advice!! Me and my boyfriend rented a flat for 14 months. We paid around £600 deposit. The flat was grubby when we moved in and we spent a few days cleaning. When we moved out we scrubbed down every inch, and left it a lot better than when we moved in. My boyfriends…