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bottled gas and key meter ????
hi, my daughter and her boyfriend intend moving out of there flat into new property a three bed town house,the reason she is moving is she is having a baby late october. the said property is one of 5 new properties,they met the landlord last night (i was not there) during there interview/chat the landlord said there would…
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recommended conveyancing solicitors in bham
Hi, I am look for recommendations on conveyancing solicitors in birmingham for first time buyer purchases. If no local ones are known any recommedations are very helpful Thanks
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Unfair tenancy contract terms?
Just looking through a tenancy contract, was wondering what people's views are on the legality/enforceability of these clauses? Seems like they want me to provide a free mail redirection facility - Royal Mail charge £39 for this. I quite often do immoral things in my property :o Have to put everything back in the same…
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Unfair Eviction
I hope someone can help, we have been renting for about 12 months, about 4 months ago we had an altercation with the landlord about her coming to the property without informing us, now she has refused to renew our contract and wants us out. We have never missed a single payment in the 12 months, they have now given me and…
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Cost of renovating this house?
Looking for a side project, but first time so tentative... What would the realistic cost of renovating this house be? http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=0&pid=6120599 To make it liveable?
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RLA or NLA?
Finally getting round to joining a LL's association. So my question: Which one? Any recommendations? Thanks x
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Selling a house - subsidence has been sorted
my parents house has had a subsidence problem that has been professionally sorted by their insurance company. 1) Does this mean that they will have problems selling their house if they ever decide to sell? Would a future mortage company be happy to lend a potential buyer money to buy the house? 2) Also, it appears that…
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Recourse through solicitor?
Everything completed on Friday on our purchase (no sale) and had call from solicitor at 9.30am to say it was done. Had arranged to get keys from vendor directly. Called her to ask when and she said she'd let us know. Tried again lunchtime, still no time given. Tried at 2pm, no time given (another load of stuff had been…
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Probably a very silly stamp duty question...
sorry if this is a silly question which it obviously it my friend is a FTB and she wants to put an offer in on a repo - estate agent says bank has to have all final offers by 10am tomorrow (can anyone confirm if this sounds right?- we don't know anyone else who has bought yet) estate agent has said there is an offer on the…
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Can someone try to explain to me - divorcee buying our house
I'm struggling to understand tbh. Can someone try to help me figure it out? We have a divorcee buying our house and his ex-wife is being difficult with paperwork that is needed etc. Originally he was keeping on his existing mortgage and getting a new one and I think she was eventually going to buy him out or something. The…
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Has anyone or would anyone buy woodland
me and OH quite like the idea of having our own little patch of woodland, is this feasible? I see the signs up everywhere for woodland for sale. We wouldnt mind getting somewhere that maybe wasnt woodland and then growing trees on it, to make it woodland, is this possible, are there rules about where you can plant trees…
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Renting my home
I am currently in a position to rent my home. I have a tenant who is family and all is well with price etc. The thing is I don't know where to start. i know i probably need to change mortgage but I'm sure there must be allot more things I need to consider. Should I get legal advice? Are there solicitors specialising is…
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Mortgage/House Valuation
We've just had an offer accepted on a house and the mortgage application has now been approved subject to valuation. We've asked for a homebuyers report along with the valuation, but I wanted to ask whether it's likely the house will be valued under our offer? The house was up for £125,000 and we agreed on £118,000. Who…
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House needing loads of work - how much?
We've just been to look at a house that we really like in size/style etc. Unfortunately it needs rewiring and has a fair amount of damp, plus quite a few cracks around - although that's only to be expected in an Edwardian house. Let's just say it looks like a money pit. House has been on the market for two years at 210 k-…
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Urgent Advice needed.
Long story but to cut it short. I owed my ex-landlord 2 months rent, he held my deposit and has since used that to offset 1 months owed money. He has now gone to court to recover the remaining 1 months rent along with cleaning bills. Me and the Landlord did not part on good terms, however I've never said no to paying the…
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Any Landlords or tenants?
I am working for a relatively new business, offering Maintenance and a full range of services to Landlords and Tenants - we are having a launch evening shortly. If you were a landlord, or a tenant, and were invited to an informal open evening, where you could view services on offer to landlords and tenants, what would you…
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Mortgage Advice Please
Hi, I have recently moved in with a new partner and we have decided to buy a property together. I currently have 2 properties which are both rented out. One however is on a residential mortgage the other on a Buy To Let. How will the mortgage company react to this information and how will it affect us buying a property…
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Please help unravel the solicitors jargon
Hi The reason we havent exchanged today is the following: Your Vendors solicitors have now confirmed that on their linked purchase transaction, their Vendors solicitors now await a settlement figure from a second mortgage lender before they will exchange contracts What does this mean?? Any help would be appreciated
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Protect yourself when selling your home.
My wife and i have just been selling our home and we have had quite the roller coaster ride. I now realise that various simple measures would have saved much aggravation. Make sure your Estate Agent (EA) works ONLY for you Next ime i sell my house i will make a stipulation that the contract for services be amended as…
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Forced by Landlord to keep notice with precised date, legally ?
Hi. My problem is annoying because I signed ongoing contract with "one month notice". My contract is "Assured shorthold tenancy", first payment was made 24.09.2009 and thereafter monthly in advance by equal payments on the same day of each month. Everything was ok until now. I really need to leave country on 10.06.2010 so…
