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Help! Need to sell home fast!
Just found out I am pregnant and I need to sell my one bedroomed flat asap we already have a daughter so things are a little cramped to say the least the council will not help us as we own our own home but we cannot afford to sell it as the fee's are just to high does anyone have any advice on how we can get around this…
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Quick favour??
Can someone have a look at that website that tells you when houses have come on and gone off the market for me? The house is 4 Granoe Close CV3 5GZ?? Not 100% about the postcode. It was a property we wanted but had to let go and it sold recently but now the board has gone just wondering if it has sold or what?
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Valuation for a remortgage question.
How does a valuer conduct such a survey? What do they base it on? Is it normally a local one? We are in the process of remortgaging and it depends on the valuation now. Our house is one of a kind on our street and area as it has been extended over the years from 3 to 5 bedrooms, extended kitchen, 30 foot garage, land…
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First time buyer confusion
Hi everyone, I hope someone can help me, it seems a really stupid question but I don't know who else to ask! I'm trying to buy a flat. I live in one at the moment, rented from a landlord. I can leave at any time, just so long as I give 6 weeks' notice. My question is: how do you know when to give notice? If the buying…
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Selling at Auction
Has anyone any experience of selling a house at auction? How does it work in relation to fees etc ( no one seems to want to declare it online, or in adverts etc ). We want to sell our property as quickly as possible. Houses in the area have been up for over a year, so we don't envisage selling ours quickly, so are looking…
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First time Buyers, Shared Equity Help
Hi basicly me and my parter are looking into getting a house on shared equity together as it would take ages to try and save up a big enough deposit for an older house. We have seen one we like the look of but there stil in the process of being built. What should we be looking out for whilst doing this? I know the question…
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renting out flat with council DGS
it is unfurnished except for carpets, curtains and white goods. i have a couple interested and wanting to move in so they must be happy with this. just wondered what people thought about things like leaving a hoover and lawn mower? should i invest in these or let the tenant buy there own? also the gardens a bit tired…
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Who is liable for burglary damage causing a callout?
Hi there, I'm new to these forums so first of all a big hello. A month or so ago we were burgled - just the garage. Myself and my only housemate were not at home at the time, we were elsewhere in the country for the weekend. They took a motorbike etc, and the neighbours called the police. After the police had finished…
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Constant leaking, bad tennants and bad letting agents upstairs?
Hi The guy who lived upstairs from our flat a few years ago gave it over to a letting agents to rent out. Since then we have had nothing but problems –!we get leaked on every couple of months from their shower, the letting agents send out their plumbers to fix it (only after a few days of pestering them though) and they do…
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FTB- When do mortgage repayments start?
Hope this doesn't sound like a stupid question but when do you start paying your mortgage? We complete the sale this week and I agreeded to 1st of the month for repayments to come out. Mortgage was agreeded and sorted a few weeks ago. So would they start taking repayments now or would it be next month? I have tried to ask…
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fees fees & more fees :s confused
Hi guys, me and my friend are 2 weeks away from moving into rented property and the paperwork is being drawn up at the end of this week. I enquired as to what the next steps were and have just recevied an email stating numerous fees that need to be paid, here is an extract of the email: "The initial monies are a month's…
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Help with PRC Certificates and Mortgages
Hi Everyone I have come accress a house and it states 'CASH PURCHASERS ONLY - this property is an ex-council unrepaired Orlett construction so there are no PRC certificates which means, as far as we are aware, this property is unmortgageable' How hard is it to get a PRC certificate - what is it :s and why wouldnt a house…
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Help - Sellers still havent found a new property
Hi everyone, I'm new here and really need advice! My husband and I are first time buyers. We found our new house 3 months ago and had our offer accepted. Everything has been progressing on our side except one major issue, our sellers have yet to find another property. The other issue is we are currently renting and have…
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Secretive vendor - Need advice!
We have recently put an offer to a flat in London - It's accepted. The flat does need some work done, but when we visited the flat again with our father in law, we found more dodgy fault (live electric wires hanging, more holes in the walls etc) in the flat. My father in law got alarmed and he went back to the estate agent…
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Head-Lease
Hi I live in a flat that is in a block of 25 flats. I am one of the directors of the Management company for the Block The owner of the flat on the top-floor of the building wants to build an extension on the roof of the building. As a director, what do I need to do before giving him permission?
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Buying house before selling mine.
Hi Im looking to buy a house and have seen one I want to make an offer on. Nothing unusual there! But, rather than sell mine first, ive decided that the easiest option would be for me to buy the other house first, then I can decorate it, move my stuff in over several weeks, then sell mine. The main reason ive decided that…
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Help with letting agency
Scottish Let. Can I ask for some advice please? This is the first time I have used a letting agent and am seriously disappointed in the service. I instructed the agent to let a house in Lanarkshire and they were very professional initially: thereafter very slow. I checked them out as far as possible. There were no adverse…
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Part DIY Conveyancing - Good or Bad idea
Hi All Canny (read as tight) Yorkshireman... sorry. Buying a freehold registered house for cash (no mortgage involved). With a current (one month old) HIP Pack. Today... I was going to instruct one of these £99 conveyancing solicitors to look over the deeds, searches perform the ID checks and send the AP1, ID1 and TR1 to…
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Buyer has offered via new agent - views please
Interesting one this. We received an offer via our formal agent when they were acting for us. Chain was broken they discovered and therefore not proceedable.Another buyer couldnt geta mortgage. Viewings dried up. We changed agent at weekend and knocked the price down 5k lower than the original amount we were offered. New…
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Should I sell my shop?
We have a commercial property worth about £125k and business borrowings of about £85k. Would you let the property which would bring us in around £1,000 pm and continue to make the monthly payments of £2,100(which of course includes interest), or sell the property and pay off the debt? Should I let go of this asset or hang…
