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Tennant over a week late moving out
hi all, we have a tennant who gave four weeks notice to move out on the 15th june. We rang the LA today only to be told the tennant is still in there...and they have no idea when she is moving out. what are our rights regarding this? the LA are as useful as a chocolate teapot! they let her get into over £2000 arrears,to…
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Looking for an Independent Survey on Property
Hi All Looking to get a property Surveyed that we are looking to buy by an Independent survey company the property is in Boston Lincs , could any one please recommend a company. Many thanks:)
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Moving day questions
Hi everybody! After 4 months of being given the run-around by the purchasers of our property & our solictitors we are finally moving this Friday. One question I have is that we have been told the completion time on Friday is 2pm. According to our solicitors we have to be out of our house by that time. The people we are…
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Developer hasn't transferred adoption of sewer but wants us to complete
Hi, I have just been served 10 days noticed to complete on a new build by the housing developer. However, my solicitor has warned me that the sewers of the new estate are yet to be adopted by the water board. Our mortgage lender refuses to release the money until the responsibility has been handed over, otherwise we would…
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Provision of house in return for services?
How does this stand in legal terms? Is is similar to a rental? Basically the owner of the house next door to us (semi) is allowing a group of people to live in it in exchange for "tidying the house up a bit". Yesterday they moved themselves in and kept us up until 4am with music and moving furniture around. When we spoke…
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Bill for fathers house
Hi My retired father passed away on a wednesday - the sheltered housing run by Newport Borough Council - (he had a stroke 9 years earlier ) said I had to get his belongings out by the Sunday. It took a few days longer as you could imagine. Today I have received a "so sorry" letter asking me to pay a weeks rent. What do…
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Buying a house with a new boyfriend whilst still legally married
Hi all I am currenly going through a divorce, and wish to buy a house with a new boyfriend, with a large deposit (each putting in the same amount) and a smallish mortgage. Are there any legal connotations to this, is it allowed, can my husband either be liable for any debt, or make a claim on any assets I and my new…
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Best Place to House Swap?
Hoping someone has some sage wisdom to impart on this one. My Father has a house in Andalucia he wants to swap for something on/near the coast in the South of England but has no idea where to start. It's not his main residence and he doesn't need to swap like for like. The spanish house is a detached villa with sea and…
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Offer?
As a FTB (with inheritance allowing me to buy in my very expensive area at last!) I just wanted to pick people's brains about what sort of offer they would make or take on the following: The house we are looking at was originally put on the market at 695k two years ago. Then it dropped to 675 three months later, then…
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Electrics - Niceic certificates
For any electricians out there or anyone that can help... I am purchasing a house at present and had offer accepted survey etc. When talking to the vendor he said he has had electrics rewired recently and needs to get it niceic checked (as he is owns a building firm and has had the work done) What has confused me is that…
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letting agent letting plumber in without permission
On Thursday a plumber was supposed to come to our rented house to look at a broken pipe. My husband left work early to be back in time to let hime in. Anyway he never turned up and there was no phone call. Yesterday the plumber phoned me and said that after arranging the appointment he recieved a text from a number he…
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Building quotes before making an offer
Hi - we are FTBs and have come across a house that looks good but would need some work doing on it to make it more liveable in future as it has a very old fashioned layout (small kitchen, plus a couple of other bits and bobs). It's right at the top of our budget but we are going to come into some money later in the year.…
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Does the cost of a lease extension ever get recouped by increased property value?
Hi All, I want to sell my flat in a few months, but I fear the length of lease may be off-putting to potential buyers or will make the value of the flat below what it really should be. I have 67 years left on the lease and the cost of a 90-year extension would be about £14k (inc. all fees). What I would like to know (and I…
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Who deals with price negotiations during house sale?
Hi folks, I have recently been fortunate to sell my home, and I'm just starting to go through the legal process and form filling. Could I please ask, if in the (hopefully unlikely) event that renegotiation of the property price is required down the line, who would normally deal with this? I ask because having received the…
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How important is Rightmove for Scottish properties?
Someone on another thread mentioned Rightmove and it got me thinking. Our Estate agent does not subscribe to Rightmove, so my property is not listed there. I keep reading that it is very important to be listed on Rightmove but as we are in Scotland it may be different here. I'm not sure... We are on ESPC but is that…
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adding a name to deeds of house
Hello My partner is currently the only name on the deeds of our house. we have no mortgage, and i want to be named on the deeds also now. Obviously he has agreed to this How do we go about this? Please help asap Thank you all
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No viewing arranged by estate agent
My house went on the market six weeks ago and I've had no contact with the Estate agent since then. I thought they might have arranged some viewings by now but it has not happened. The only people who have been to see the house have been whose who came on our Sundays open days -- and none of them have even put their own…
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Subletting half of a rented workshop
Hi there I have a rented workshop and my neighbouring tenant has asked if he could sublet part of it from me. I checked with the landlord and he's fine about it. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a free subletting contract I could use, or if that's not possible give some suggestions as to what I…
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Homelet\Martin+Co
Just a quick question really...my partner and I are looking to move to a new flat soon. We found a nice one being advertised by Martin+Co and when we went in to chat to them about applying for it. They said that as there is 2 of us, we would need to pay £235 for the admin fee which includes the credit check etc - thought…
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Confused about how much this property's worth.
Hi, I'll try and keep it short - seen a lovely house in a good area on the market for 349,995k. Its in generally v.good decorative order but has the same kitchen/bathroom/ensuite and boiler it was built with 13 years ago which in my opinion would need replacing in the near future to bring it up to date. The current owner…
