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MID-TENANCY Inspection
Hi I am a tenant on a short tenancy and my letting agent has asked for an inspection for my landlord, I know this is fine and usual and I do not mind in anyway as I beleive I have kept the flat in very good condition. HOWEVER, it got me worried, as I have a wall mounted TV in my bedroom which I placed at the beginning of…
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Breaking housing contract.
Morning, Bit of a random question but I'm unsure who to turn to! OK my question is - I signed a contract last January to rent a room in a house share last January. The contract was to start in August 2010 and end in June 2011. Due to several reasons, such as an epic falling out with the people I was supposed to be living…
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Agent wants payslips, B,statements and holding deposit
We want to move soon. Been looking at a few places but the agent wants us to jump through hoops. First of all they want a holding deposit 250 then they want us to pay for our own credit reference search. I said no thank you I`m not interested in that you can do it if you like. We have good earnings and can provide payslips…
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Urgent please - tenant done a runner
I used to rent a flat - left months ago. However, have kept in vague touch with new tenant. However, new tenant indicated to me last night that hes done a bunk and told me to go & take whatever I wanted of his before Monday However, I want to be fair to the landlord (cos he was a brilliant landlord) and tell him his tenant…
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No hot water or heating- IT'S SNOWING!!!
I'm hoping somebody can help me as I am freezing and really need some advice. I live in a rented house, I rented this from Townends and on Wednesday I turned the heating/hot water on and it started making very very load banging noises then it turned itself off. I contacted Townends who advised it had nothing to do with…
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Can (an ex) landlord bypass tenant and go directly to guarantors?
Long story short, girlfriend left her student flat early, other flatmate stayed, brought in cats for the remainder of the tenancy. This resulted in a pest controller needing to be called (after the return of the deposits). This is all ok, broke the terms, landlord incurred cost etc, but the issue is, the landlord never had…
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Grrrr will this be a problem? Buying a repossession
I went into the solicitor today to sign the mortgage offer etc. She told me that she is still waiting for Alliance and Leicester to say they will take the charge off. All this time we have been dealing with the BOS but we find out today the BOS actually have 2nd charge on the property and A&L have the 1st charge as the…
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Frightened of my lodger - help???
Hi all :) - I am a member on the B/R forum and had a very tough few years, however I have survived B/R and decided to rent a room out to a close friend earlier this year to assist with my finances. I did supply a Lodger Agreement (6 months) with terms and conditions attached. We both signed and agreed to the terms etc, to…
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Who is my landlord?
According to the tenancy agreement, My LL is ZZ Ltd. A year later they sent a letter to me (on the z ltd company headed paper) saying to pay the rent to Y Ltd. And also that the deposit is now protected under Y ltd. I was also sent a letter from TPS saying that it was being unprotected by ZZ Ltd. To cut a long story short,…
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Looking for affordable housing, nursery nurse
Hey everyone, one of my colleagues mentioned that she is renting a property for her family and that she is getting a more affordable price because we are working as nursery nurses. So, I thought of a council flat to begin with, but there is nothing mentioned about particular "professions" having any advantages. Then I…
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Leaving property during repairs - LL's responsibilities?
My friend is renting a house in York, in which she lives with her OH and 2-month old baby, which has some damp problems (rising damp in bathroom, utility, kitchen and half of dining room) which have been ongoing for a few months. The LA has said that someone will be coming in to fix this mid January. Whilst it's not ideal…
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forced to stop trading - can't pay the rent any more
I have a commercial lease for a retail business, for which the rent is overdue by 10 weeks. I can't pay the rent any more. This is a fixed comemercial lease for 15 years, with 9 still remaining. I am closing down because the landlord won’t allow me to sell in direct competition with the other business so it has forced me…
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Buying in Sharm el Sheikh or Hurghada
I am thinking of buying a cheap apartment in Sharm or Hurghada and wondered if anyone could advise which resort is better? I would want to rent it out all year round so I was thinking renting it to a local egyptian might be best I have already looked into some of the pitfalls such as seeing documentary evidence the seller…
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Rightmove changes of '£' to '?'
I have noticed on Rightmove using Property Bee that some listings have a change from the £ sign to an upside-down ? sign, and then a couple of days later it changes back again. Is this just a trick agents use to bump their listings up the searches as it counts as an edit? I cannot think of any other reason for doing this,…
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Chief Rent Questions
Hi, we moved into a new house last year, and have recently received a bill for £10 for chief rent on our property from Shenstone Properties. The letter was addressed to the previous owner, and we only opened it in error, so my partner called Shenstone to ask them to send letters in future addressed to the occupier which…
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Will Mortgages Get Back to 95 or 100%
What does anyone think? I'm completely against irresponsible lending but deposits required for first time buyers are proving a real hurdle
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Letting agents gone bust?
Hi all, Those regulars in this forum may be familiar with myself and previous issues with our letting agents as posted here. We have since resolved those issues privately with the landlord with the help of the council but unfortunately the age old problem of the letting agent has reared it's ugly head again. It appears…
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impatient I know
We've sold our house to first time buyers and should be moving out early new year. We haven't found anywhere to buy yet so going to rent of a friend. We have seen a house for £200k, started with a offer of £178k and then went to £183k. The sellers will not budge on £188k, so we offered to meet half way at £185,500 but…
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£250k Stamp Duty Impact
Please help Been lurking on these boards since I started to consider a purchase and you have all been very helpful, but I have a few questions before I place an offer on a flat: 1) If purchasing a flat for say £250k can you put the garage through for £5k if they are not joined to avoid paying stamp duty? 2) I know this is…
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Loft conversion - safe to contact the council?
Hi - We've just purchased a house that has a converted loft, which we know hasn't got building regs. approval (& managed to factor that into the price!) I'd like to get an estimate of what would be involved in getting it up to building regs retrospectively, but I'm worried about contacting the council BCO incase they can…
