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'Quick Sale' Companies
Has anyone had any experience, good or bad, of these companies that offer cash for a quick house sale? Desperate to sell home, for a lot of reasons, but fear a sale through the normal route will be near impossible. Any thoughts or comments welcomed.
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Should We Have Been Notified By Someone?
We recently purchased a house which had been extended and was classed as Band D. The sale completed in August and on Christmas eve we received a letter saying it had been classified to Band E and we owed £300 for back dated council tax benefit (nice). We took into consideration council tax bands before we purchased and…
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OK, not your problem
Goodbye cruel world :(
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Buy to Let Interest Only Mortgage
Can anyone help me locate or find advice on Buy to Let interest only mortgages? Apparently there is a mortgage out there that allows you to use your own property to purchase another property on a buy to let basis only paying off the interest?? Much appreciated CLAIRE D
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re joint freehold
Can someone help me? I am currently the owner of a flat in a house of four flats, the freehold is joint, quarter share for each flat. The flat roof which my roof terrace is on has a small leak to flat below, will likely need re felting. Can we share cost or is it my problem only. The house has also some other repairs…
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easement or indeminty policy
hi my perents are trying to sale there bungalow been living in for 30 plus years when moved in thay had to have a water pipe put in , so it was done ,now 30 odd years on thay are selling but been told that thay need to sort out the water pipe ,that runs over rail track bridge can any one help in finding any info on this…
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Do up or sell up
I would be grateful for some advice. My husband and I are divorcing and the family home (where I am with our two children) will need to be sold. I am not sure whether it would be preferable to redecorate and do all the little jobs that should have been done over the years and weren't or put on the market as is, acccepting…
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Time to fix TV aerial?
Just wondered really.... My TV aerial has broken (the one on the outside of the building). I think it must have got damaged when we had some bad weather. I now can't receive any television at all either analogue or digital. I have tried everything I can and think it MUST be the aerial connection. I can't get into the loft…
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How much of a mortgage could I get?
Hi, I realise that I really need to speak with a mortgage broker and I will be doing so, but I wondered if anybody here would please mind giving their gut feeling for how much I could possibly borrow, at what LTV and at what interest rate. My details are: Loan type - First time buyer, single applicant Salary - £39,000…
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moving out..telling tenants the truth / deposit / moving dates? HELP?
Bit of background: we moved into a property (private rental) which we thought was perfect, previous tennants told us all was great bla bla bla.. lived here for 2 months and the windows let air through them.. i sit watching TV at night and the breeze hits my face.. i lay in bed and the breeze hits my face.. my daughters…
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House falls through, who pays solicitor
Looks like my house sales about to fall through at the last minute because my buyer had an last minute audit on his new morgage and he got turned down.If house fall through who pays solicitor?
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Periodic inspection report
Going through the process of buying a house, just had an electrical periodic inspection report done, still waiting for the actual report to arrive, but the electrician texted me to say it was in the post, but said that there a couple of items and a more urgent item (no bonding on gas pipes), I texted back asking how much…
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Selling a City Centre Flat and in negative equity - when to take the plunge?
Hi everyone, I'm a first time poster so be gentle with me! I have a newly built flat in Birmingham City Centre (in the Digbeth area) - I bought it in spring of 2006. It's a shared ownership property that was valued at £75000 for a 50% share. There is £70,000 left to pay on the mortgage. Like many areas of its kind, there…
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No water (rented flat)
Hi, I'm new on here, just looking for some advice on my rented flat sorry about the long story. At the start of December we had no water for a few days and when we eventually got water back, just as I was leaving for work I was met with what only could be described as a waterfall at the entrance door to the building where…
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Unfit property (so cold) my rights
Hi all me and my lady moved into a lovely old style house last summer and all was well till the temperature dropped, the house has been unlivable, you can see your breath in most rooms and the washing up water constantly freezes. The heating does work but it doesn't heat the house at all really, in order to be happy in a…
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Help - Landlord threating us
Hi All, We moved into a property about 6 months with our 6 month old baby and since moving in we have had nothing but bother with the house. Things go wrong and the landlady takes weeks/months to get things fixed. We moved in and within the first 2 weeks had to get the radiator in the front room fixed as it was leaking.…
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Deeds land Registry
Hi, My father passed away a year ago leaving the deeds to my mothers house in joint names.So the freehold title absolute is in both their names. We have letters of administration naming my mother as administrator of my fathers estate. My mother is now looking to sell the property and we are looking for an inexpensive way…
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A bit of a pickle re: lodger
Hi Everyone, Like a bad horror film we have the lodger from hell. It has come to the point whereby we feel strangers in our own home. What makes it worse is that there is no agreement in place. We just want him to go: A little example of whats been going on: Debt collectors knocking at the door for him, although I lent him…
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brentwood advice urgent!
Hi im currently in the process of renting a property in brentwood essex has anyone got any advice to what the area is like as since paying the holding fee to the agent ive started hearing horror stories about the area the road we are planning on moving to is lime avenue which is part of something called eastham estate i…
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brentwood advice urgent!
Hi im currently in the process of renting a property in brentwood essex has anyone got any advice to what the area is like as since paying the holding fee to the agent ive started hearing horror stories about the area the road we are planning on moving to is lime avenue which is part of something called eastham estate i…
