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Withholding security deposit cos of a hedge!!
Hi all. I was renting a property with my husband and 2 children and we just recently moved out. Now the owners are disputing an issue with the garden hedge and are withholding our deposit. To fill you in, our neighbour had a party and set off some sky lanterns..one of which blew into the tall hedge in our back garden and…
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Help! Unexperienced first time renter with HA who are RUBBISH!
Hi all I live in a new build, one bedroom flat in London... (£800 PCM - and thats keyworker affordable housing -apparently!) Anyway, in the summer I decided to have Sky HD installed for the world cup... worked fine all throughout the summer, until around 4 months ago and I lost signal on most of the channels. I called sky,…
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[Tenant] £120 p.a. tenancy renewal fees !!
Hi, I'm the tenant of a flat I've been renting for nearly 2 years now. The letting agency I'm using, in addition to providing quite a bad service, used to charge me every year a £50 fee standing for "single person renewal fee" :( Two choices : to renew for a full year or 6 months. I can't rent for a sorter or longer…
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Chimneys
Just about to buy a flat bothe the chimney stacks need repointing, and one has a list. Any ideas how much this would cost to repair thanks in advance!
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Grounds to evict?
Bit of a hypothetical question here as I don't have lots of details. The house next to my parents' house is rented out on a 12 month lease. I assume there's no break clause. I think it's about 5 months through the tenancy. Again assuming that the tenancy contains a clause about no business to be carried on from the house,…
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crazy valuation
hi i am currently in the process of getting a mortgage for the first time and have passed checks.the purchase price is 105k.2 bedroom house,semi,porch,really nice inside. the valuation was done on monday at it came back at 60k...yes 60k. the valuar gave no structual problems etc just stated there wasnt really any…
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Help please-problem after completion
Hi there, can anyone help please! We just sold our flat and bought a new house. Everything went smoothly and we completed last month. We thought we will start to enjoy our new home. But yesterday we received an email from the solicitor from the buyer who bought our flat. There are four things. 1, one drawer was a little…
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Ground Rent and Service Charge
Good Evening all, We returned home today to two letters, one for Service Charge and one for Buildings Insurance and Ground Rent Please could we ask advice as to what you regard as fair as the total for all these is £1200; which is a lot to pay in one go! We live in a small 2 bedroom 2nd floor flat in a block of 9 flats. We…
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issuing s21 and rent arrears
Hi all, am due to give my tenant his s21 at the weekend in person. Do i need a witness? does the witness need to sign anything? Also the tenant owes me nearly 1k in rent arrears and wants to give me part of that when i see him. Do i issue him a receipt? as he always use to pay me via the bank. I just want to make sure i…
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Dodgy estate agent??
Hiya, I'd really appreciate any advice/input on the following matter. Basically in June this year I saw and fell in love with a house that was on the market for 240k as a probate sale. It was very run down and needed lots of work so we put in an offer for 220k. We assumed that our first (and only) offer had just been too…
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Post Being Stolen - Nothing Being Done About It
For the past couple of weeks things that have been delivered have been 'going missing' but we thought it was a problem with the Royal Mail rather than where we lived. Saturday we went out and before we went I noticed that there was a book in our postbox in a jiffy bag and I left it, commenting to OH that we would pick it…
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Previous adverts for house
Possibly a strange question but: I've been looking for a house and doing all the sensible things -using property bee toolbar, globrix, rightmove etc. Ocasionally EAs have relisted houses to refresh stock which tends to hide the history of how long they've been on sale and how much the advert has changed, including, rather…
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will I be stuck in flat forever?
just over 3 years ago I entered into a part buy/part rent HA scheme for a 2 bedroom flat near my work. In my block there are 8 others, 2 of which are vunerable adults with carers that come in during parts of the day. One of them lives below me. The sound proofing between the flats up and down is not very good and although…
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Oven failed gas check, agent gave me quote for repair?
Hi yesterday I had the annual gas check and upon inspecting the oven a number of faults came out. The electrics that run at the back of the gas oven are not boxed in.. ie live. dont know how it passed before as i have not touched it. The second oven as its a double type oven is burning orange.. so according to the gas guy…
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How Much Notice Do I Have To Give?
I have been living in a private rented house since April. I signed a 6 month lease when I moved in, which ran out on 26th Oct and I haven't signed anything else since then. I'm going to be moving in with my BF next month. How much notice do I have to give my landlord?
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Tenant under-paying rent
I have a tenant who agreed to pay £460 per month. The AST has been signed by them, with this figure on it, for 1 year. Yet they say they only agreed verbally to £450, so that's what they're paying. We've debated the point at some length without a resolution, and we're now in the third month of them paying the lesser…
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leak damage from upstairs, who covers the cost?
a tenant in the upstairs property went out and left thair water on (they deny that they did, saying that there was a plumbing leak ) and have since moved out. Our insurance ar covering the majority of the cost , but for a few bits they are not. my question is really is the landlord accountable for the damage or the tenant?
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Leasehold help
Hello, not sure if this is the right place but need some advice. My house is leasehold and today I received a letter from a company claiming thats the leasehold was sold and they are to be acting for the owner of the leasehold. Demanding I pay the money to them. I called them and asked for them to get the new owners to…
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Where can we buy a cheap and comfortable house?
Hi everybody! Maybe someone knows the place where I can address to in order to buy a cheap and comfortable house, in a good condition.
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Moving into Flat where tenant was deceased for two weeks?
Iam in the process of moving out of my HA bedsit into a one bed flat as our properties are being converted into 2 bed flats. I was originally moving back into one of the two bed places but decided to go with the financial package instead. The one bed flat I'm getting is in the next block I've been told. However, the…
