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How long before you ask the EA about interest
I was just wondering how long people leave between putting their house on the market and phoning the EA about interest, what they have been doing etc. My house only went on the market last week so not majorly concerned but should I start phoning them to check what they are doing or leave it for another week or 2.
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Is the landlord responsible?
OK long story short we are having major problems with the kids of one of our neighbours this culminated the other night with one of the houses in the street almost being set alight. The problem we have is we know it is this particular child but cannot prove it. There are other instances of bad behaviour and damage to other…
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Student House - Legalities etc.
Hi, Just a quick bit of info. Ive been speaking to some students recently who will be renting a house shortly for a year, at a cost of £300 a month each (4 of them) thats £1200. The same house would be rented to a family for around £450 a month. Seems like quite a good business to be in. What are the legalities surrounding…
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Setting UP A Direct Debit For Tenant
Hi All A tenant living within my house wants my bank details so he can pay his rent weekly via a direct debit, this is a little new to me and I was wondering if it is safe to do so? Any advice greatfully received.
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Conveyancing question -Add on searches
Hello All, I have only bought 2 house previously and never sold one. We were FTB 21 years ago and PX that house on a new build 10 years ago. So we have our contract from the solicitor and lots has changed since we last moved. They advise the following additional searches, what I want to know is what is essential, desirable…
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Land Registry
Not sure if this the right place for this thread, but I cannot find a phone number for the Land Registry, Peterborough. Think it's call Land Search, Peterborough. Looked online, emailed and written, but got no response. Can anyone help by giiving me a contact number, please.
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house sale - no viewings...
We've been trying to sell our house for about 6 months now but have had 0 viewings. We bought at the end of 2006 for 92k and have spent roughly 10k on improvement since then including a new bathroom, flooring, doors, fireplace etc. The house, as I see it, is well presented and nicely decorated. Historically, our street is…
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Credit Check when Renting?
We're hoping to rent a house for 6-12 months whilst the one we have just purchased is renovated. My question is how strict the MARAS credit checks are? I am in FT employment and earn £40k/year but we have a lot of credit card debt (which is the reason we are moving - downsizing to pay it all off) and we have also missed an…
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Thank you
was very nervous when I posted on here last week about my situation with a very lax landlord as I was worried all landlords may take the general rule that LL = good , tenants = bad no matter what the circumstances Thanks to your advice then I have managed to be released from my contract early ( subject to written…
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Offering on repossession tommorow can we
We are putting an offer on a repossession tomorrow, it is through an estate agent, it has just been dropped by £10,000 and we are going to offer another £5,000 off as it is in really good condition and in a nice area. The other semis the same are up for quite a bit more. Can we still ask to take it off the market with it…
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'Resale price covenant scheme’- am I getting ripped off??
Is this really this easy???? I have just put an offer on my first property, which is available (via a housing association) through a scheme called ‘resale price covenant scheme’. Is this a ‘good’ scheme or am I about to waste all my hard earned savings? The scheme works like this, the property is ‘valued’ at £xxxk but is…
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Renegotiation on survey results?
We have had a planner round to a house we have had an offer accepted on. The planner has told us to get a full structural survey as there are things he has noticed (some settlement, lack of window lintel (sp?), and others). We now anticipate these will be found on the upcoming survey and could cost us at least an extra 10k…
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Bond returned - money deducted for cleaning
I'm having a nightmare of a time with this agency. Not only did they lie to me regarding agency fees when transferring from one of their managed properties to another now they've deducted £30 from my bond for cleaning. I left the property in a similar state if not better than what it was in. Do you guys take pictures when…
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Opinions on *cheeky* new build offers please?
Hi I would love an unbiased opinion on this situation please: 4bed detached new build on the market for 246000 (off plan) There are a few available and I don't think they are selling too quickly. We have had ours valued at 135000 for quick sale (ie. part ex type price). For us to afford it we would need to find the balance…
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Rats again :o(
We're almost in the last month of out tennancy (handed in our notice to end on 8th April) and lo and behold our problem of this time last year has returned - rats, indoors, I saw it looking at me from the the tv yesterday and have found droppings in the kitchen behind the cooker (I only had this out last month to clean…
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Would this put you off?
I'm probably being completely daft here but some things have come up in our HIP which I'm worried will put our buyer off :( Our HIP was finally completed today and we have been sent a soft copy of it. 3 things have immediately sprung to my attention: 1. We are in a high risk area for Radon gas. First I've heard! We've…
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offer on a new build
can i ask your opinions on what price you would offer on a new build priced at £156,000. my friend is buying one from taylor wimpey and is thinking of offering £151,000. she has sold her property allready so i think she is in a good position to offer a bit less than this. what are your thoughts please?
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house deeds copy
Any website where i can purchse a copy of my house deeds. also that is cheap. thanks.
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can we complete?
we are meant to be completing tomorrow, been a long saga, short of it is the building warrant needed is not with our solicitor yet... can we complete if for eg, the work that has been done (fixing dodgy loft conversion) has been passed but just awaiting paperwork coming through? i heard something about retention of our…
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Shared ownership question
Hi, I viewed a house which is 50% shared ownership. They said after 12 months I can buy the rest of the 50% or as much as I want. My questions are: Do I have to pay by cash to purchase the rest of the 50% or can I remortgage to cover the rest of the cost? Also, it says its a leasehold, does that become a freehold when I…
