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Valuation Nightmare! It's falling through and it's not our fault
We are in the process of buying a house that was on the market for 210K. We managed to buy for 203k, which we thought was great! We are going through our Estate Agent for our morgage and have paid them a service fee for using them. Up to now we have paid £1150 in fee's. The valuation was done the other day and the Estate…
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Where do Tenants stand?
If a Landlord has several properties and they all get repossessed, but he then rents them out to new Tenants, what rights do the T's have? Facts that I know: LL owns approx 10 houses, Bank has repossess all in November. Bank sends out maintenance company to change the locks 3 weeks later, which is this week. Maintenance…
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Should I sell or not?
I have been offered full asking price for my property with a caviate that I complete by 1st Feb - 6 weeks time. The money made on the property would make us debt free - with then 400-500 a month free to start saving. Should I move into rented accomodation for the next 2-3 years and save for a new deposit or reject offer…
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Selling House & splitting up
Hi, In the process of selling house as we have decided to part ways. We have accepted an offer to sell but my partner is now saying does not want to move out until they have bought another property and will not rent which is clearly the sensible thing to do. Can I force the sale through as worried will lose the purcahser,…
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Landlord wants £1,000 retainer
I am currently in the process of renting a house. I am doing so directly with the landlord, and have just submitted my reference details. The process has taken a little while, through no fault of mine own, and I finally received the reference request on Monday. I tried to fill it in but it required landlord details which…
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Having inventory check in this evening - LA wanting to charge us sign up fee?
This evening my partner and I are moving into a new rental property. We did the usual with the LA, paid admin fee for credit checks (actually it's the same LA as we currently are renting off). They gave us a discount on this fee as we are currently with them. There was no indication of any further fees on the initial forms…
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rental flat - taken off market etc
So the LA came back to us and confirmed what work the LL is doing when the current tenant leaves in Jan. Thing is the LL is happy to proceed nearer the time of completion and the LA will call us mid Jan with moving in details. Does this sound funny to you?
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Where do I stand with this?
Hi there, A friend and I were looking to move in the new year. We found a place at the end of November we liked, but said we couldn't move until 2nd January. So the estate agent said for us to give him the first months rent (paid end of Nov) to stop others viewing the property and to pay the security deposit/bond on the…
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Proper way of getting permission for knocking down of wall?
We completed 1 month ago, whole flat is being renovated and is nearly done (Phase 1, new kitchen, full rewire, full replaster, new oak flooring etc) Phase 2 we want to kick off in the new year, which is basically trying to knock down a wall between an airing cupboard and bathroom, to create a bigger bathroom with w/c in it…
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confusing layout
Okay so we viewed a 1 bed flat here today http://www.findaproperty.com/displayprop.aspx?edid=00&salerent=1&pid=7896112 It has a confusing layout (building not actual flat) Lift only goes to floors 2 & 5, corridor runs down middle of each floor (well 2nd floor at least), flat entrances on either side of corridor. Upon…
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Buying House - Conservatory Not Had Planning Permission
Hi In the process of buying a property and received a letter from our solicitor today to say that the conservatory did not have Building Regulation Approval nor Fensa certificate. The conservatory was built in 2007 and is over the 30 square meter limit. The seller said that the installer went bump in 2008.. The sellers…
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Just completed on a repossession - what to do about bailiffs?
We completed on Friday :j I know from the post (i've not opened it before anyone asks, just googled addresses) and know that the previous owners were in a lot of debt (we knew this anyway as the person is well know in our area). What if bailiffs come knocking on the door? Do we just have to have ID handy (maybe a…
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renting - boiler never worked properly
Hi guys just looking for a bit of advice. Since i moved into the new place (July) the boiler has never worked properly, the pressure will just dissapear if the heating isn't on or if hot water isn't running through it. Most of the time our letting agent ignores our messages about it. This has gone on for too long and i'm…
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Trust vendor to repair?
Hi all Scared and confused first time buyer here. Sorry please bear with me as I present the facts. I am buying a property (built c. 1900) which has been recently refurbished. The vendor bought it on the cheap, did it up and is selling to me chain free. I paid for a structural survey and a few issues were identified. I…
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tennants in common, splitting up, child involved
Me and my partner are splitting up. WE have a 11 month old baby and obviously this will have a large effect on the sale of the house. we are tennants in common 50/50 allthough i put down 7k depost and she put down nothing. There is also a case of domestic violence logded against me in which i accepted a caution to avoid…
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my property bee not working :O(
Would some kind person please property bee this for me please? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-30354506.html TIA Liz
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Claiming back the tax on rental deposite?
Someone has just mentioned this to me in passing during a conversation at work and just wondered if there was any truth in it. Apparently as a tenant you can at the end of your tenancy write to the Deposit scheme your deposit is kept with and ask them to send you the tax(?) earned on your deposit during the time it was…
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new house
Hi, we are about to sign the contacts on our new house which is about fifteen years old. When I saw it today the shower did not work. How do I get this sorted? Is it via the EA or my lawyer?
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LA withholding some of the deposit
Hi, I have recently ended a tenancy and the LA is withholding £60 of my deposit to compensate the LL for a couple of late rent payments that occurred months before the end of the tenancy, if I dispute this do you think I will win? When the late payments were made the LA said everything was fine and did not inform us that…
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What to do (selling and buying)
My house is on the market and we have found a house. We accepted an offer on ours, and our offer was accepted on the house we want, however the person wanting our house is waiting for money to come through so cannot proceed immediatly, we were advised to put our property back on the market incase a FTB came along. Also the…
