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Help Required Complicated Issue
Moved into a ground floor flat on the 11/05/08 Tenancy agreement was fixed for 6 months on an “Assured Short hold Tenancy Agreement under part 1 of the Housing Act 1988 as amended by the Housing Act 1996 Agreed Rent was for £425.00 plus a deposit of £425.00 which was to be placed into DPS scheme. Points I made at the time…
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Landlord's flat being repossessed
Hi, i while ago i put a post on here saying myself and my partner were unsure wether to continue saving for a deposit or start renting and after much though we decided to rent. We moved into a flat 8 weeks ago and all was going great and we have never been so happy...untill last week. Our flat is being repossessed, HM…
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Renting out a property...
Im hoping that some of the professional landlords might be able to help me..... We've had a really good offer accepted on a house but as yet have had no firm interest in mine so am thinking about renting it out for the time being. No problems re consent to let etc, and theres room to manouvre with the cost of mortgage vs…
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Getting deposit back from landlord time limits
Hi, I was wondering if anyone can help me. I live in Scotland, and my boyfriend and I moved out of our rented flat in May 2008, we moved in a couple of years previously, it was before the tenant deposit scheme thing. When we moved out our landlord kept our deposit for ridiculous reasons that he basically made up. We wrote…
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Old Water Bill from Sold House
Hi A couple of months ago i received a water bill for £850 from a house i sold 5 years ago. When we sold we had to pay all final bills which the solicitor was responsible for doing. I called the water company and explained the situation and they said they would write to my solicitors used when i sold up. Last week the…
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Conflict in value between valuation survey and full structural survey
Hello, I am FTB. I had an offer accepted on a house two weeks ago. Since that time, I've had the mortgage valuation survey and full structure survey carried out. From the valuation survey, it come up the same as offered price with following comments “This property is considered to be reasonable proposition for purchase at…
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Still waiting for deposit back after 8 months
Two years ago my fiance and I moved in to a flat and paid the sum of £550 as a deposit. This deposit was paid to an estate agent who apparently passed it on to the company managing the letting of property on behalf of landlord. In November 2008 we were informed that this was deposited with The Tennacy Deposit Solution. In…
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Eviction and time to sell the house!
Hi guys, Not sure if it a right place for the subject, but I hope to get some help. We recieved the 2nd eviction notice, and we decide to sell the house. We dropped the price from £320,000 to £285,000 and today we accepted an offer for £275,000 to sell it and avoid the eviction. But is not so easy. I get an offer from the…
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buying a property
Hi all, bit of legal advise! my brother will mortgage a property, example at 50K for me and I will spend 40K to renovate, can my brother then sell this house to me at 50K without any complications. sid
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Insurance Policy rather than Local Searches?
We are buying a reprossesed property. Our solicitor has offered us the chance to pay £46 for an insurance policy rather than carrying out local searches. Do you think its worth it? Due to a mix up the sale was slightly delayed and we should have exchanged tomorrow but they have now given us till next Friday. If we get this…
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House with private garden that isn't legally owned?
Hi there I am going to view a house at the weekend that was on the market previously, but was 'sold' before I could view. The same has fallen through, after survey, and although the agent couldn't confirm it, I believe it is because the garden with the property is not actually legally possessed by the house owner. The…
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Advice Please!
Hey Guys, Just a quick one... We are trying to get our deposit back off the company we rented from, but we think they may be ripping us off! If a company is VAT registered, does that mean they can add VAT on to charges that they want us to pay? For instance, I asked for a copy of the cleaning invoice from the company they…
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Disclosing other offer...
Hello everyone! Me and my other half put in our first offer on a property we really liked. I rang the estate agents this morning and had a phone call just before the end of the working day saying another amount had been offered which was higher than our original one. I asked the agent if she could disclose the amount of…
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Should I Sell or Let shared Ownership Property?
I'm hoping someone can offer me some good advice! My situation: - Two and a half years ago I bought a shared property flat in Manchester with my then partner (then valued at £17,000, I own 50%). - When I discovered he was cheating on me 18 months ago I bought him out as I didn't want to loose my home. - Due to current…
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Leaseholds: freeholder's permission for alterations
I'm starting down the path to buying a flat (first time buyer). My intention is to buy somewhere that's in need of renovation, and do some work on it, which may be more than just cosmetic stuff - possibly altering partition walls and the like. I'm familiar with what I can and can't do in terms of planning permission and…
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Indemnity insurance and building regulations
Hi, I am very close to purchasing a new house. The property has a substantial ground floor extension (2006), which has the correct planning approvals but does not appear to have building regulations completion certificate. We are pretty confident about the quality of the work as the surveyor instructed the bank to ask us…
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Just exchanged!
Woohoo! We have just exchanged on our first property! Very excited. Only downside, is we can't complete for another 7 weeks as vendors are moving into rented and havn't found somewhere. Also, a little worried about building insurance - our solicitor is going to confirm some kind of agreement that means the vendors don't…
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Vendor says he won't sell to us
Hello, I was wondering what any home-buying experts thoughts are on this one - any advice gratefully received! My partner and I have been trying to buy a house for the last year or so. (It is to be our home for the long-term.) We are looking in a very specific area and so we know the local market inside out. We've had a…
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Re: Tennants in common, considering split, percentage changes?
Hi there, I did a tennants in common (I think!) with a percentage split 3 yrs ago now to buy a new property with my OH. No one would of forseen any problems but I am now not feeling things are great, when I offer to pay for things i'm told to "spend it on yourself" & not the house and yet they are forever paying for things…
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A rather unusual problem - |BTL to save money
Hi - appreciate this is rather a unique situation, it IS actually a problem for me though wondered if anyone could give some perspective please. I am a freelance IT consultant, living in rented accommodation with 1 months notice. My rent, whilst reasonable for the area, is more than a mortgage would be on similar property.…
