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Want house left empty by old lady who is in care.
There is a house we would love to buy and know that the old lady who lives here has been taken into care. Is there a process we can go to in order to make an approach to buy it. We understand from neighbours that she has been taken into care and will not be coming home. any help would be great C
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Complaint against house builder
Thread Stats Views: 14 WW Factor Coming Soon... Share This Thread: Hi I am looking for some advice. We moved into a new house, off plan, last June. When we bought it we knew there would be houses built at the back of us and also new that they would be 3 storey town houses ( our is a 2 storey detached) My complaint is that…
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Purchasing reposessed homes
Hi everyone I'm new to these lands and I'm hoping you are able to help me!! I'm considering purchasing a house that has been repo'd within the last 8 months. I have been told that all the utilities have been switched off and water drained from the system etc and that there are no guarantees on the property. Before I put my…
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FTB - looking to buy soon (ish)
Hi all, I am a first time buyer. Never rented a property (been living with the 'rents). I want to buy a decent property (4 bed) in a decent area. I have about 12k liquid cash at the moment. I started a new job recently and will get about 3k a month after tax. I dont have many overheads but various one off expenses. Having…
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couple looking to buy house including my father.
we are a couple looking to buy the council house, we will need to include my father too. one issure we are wondering about (among many) is my fathers age, he will be 60 next year will he even be able to go in the mortgage with us? we are both 31.
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Giving honest feedback to a vendor
Yesterday I viewed a house that I found via housenetwork.co.uk, and today I received an automated email from them asking for feedback. As far as I can tell the vendor will be able to view the direct feedback that I enter, rather than it been passed on by an agent (who might perhaps reword and sugercoat it). I have never…
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Stamp duty
Hypothetically. If a property is on the market for, say, £127K and a lower offer has been made (from a non-first time buyer) and accepted by the vendor of, £124K plus an agreement to pay £1500 for specified kitchen equipment, drapes and electrical fixtures and fittings. Would this sale: 1. escape stamp duty 2. be legal If…
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Stuck because we can't sell our house. There must be a solution, please help.
My partner and I currently are living together in my one bedroom bachelor pad. We are very keen to move to somewhere bigger so I have been trying (without success) to sell my place for around six months now. We are fortunate because I don't have a mortgage on my place and between us we have around 90k in savings. However,…
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How long until the survey will be carried out?
We accepted an offer on our property 2 weeks ago. Since then its all gone quiet. I was just wondering when the survey is likely to be carried out? I'm guessing because of all the bank holidays coming up it could be early May now?
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Found a better house....
Hi, Short story: We put in an offer on a house and it was accepted last friday. But we've found a better house now. Is it wrong to pull out? We've just had the survey done (not got the results yet) we've not properly signed a contract with a solicitors yet. Longer story: When we started looking we found a house we really…
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security deposits agents now charging us
Has any one else had this recently We pay the agent 9% plus vat. Heres the letter word for word, obviously not proof read Dear xxxxx Re xxxxxxxxxx Following increased costs for holding security deposits with the Dispute service, we will now be charging all landlords an annual fee of £50.00 plus VAT per property. This is to…
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Need advice please
My wife just passed away. She owned a house and didn't make a will. She wanted this house to go to her two sons and I am happy with that, but she wanted them not to be able to sell the house until they are 30. There is a mortgage and a mortgage life insurance that hopefully will pay for it. Anyone could advise me how to go…
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In that stressy in between time;
We have been on the market for two years, it's a business as well as a residence - and we accepted a (low) offer at the beginning of April from someone who we had been talking to and providing accounts to for a month or so. We have found, and put in an accepted offer on the house we want - we have the survey from a…
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End of tenancy check - who should do it?
As above, Letting Agent based renting - as far as I'm aware the LA did the check in. Thanks, K x
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Unexpectedly being given notice.... help!
Hello all :) My landlord has posted a note through my door giving me two months notice to get out of the house! I'm in a periodic tenancy, so I know two months notice can be given, but it's come as a shock as last time we spoke, he was saying how he hoped we'd be in the property for years to come. We've never given any…
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Lost house due to lying agent. Next step?
To cut a long story short, I've spent around £800 on solicitor fees and survey reports for a buy-to-let house I was purchasing. It's a reposession and we were nearly at the stage to exchange contracts when I discovered from a neighbour that the estate agent had lied about a part of the property and I rang him. The agent…
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No DSS, private renting and advice.
I will keep this simple. Family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) having to relocate from the Midlands to Dartford ASAP to be with family. We currently live in LA housing. We have applied to Dartford local council via home choice but understand that to move we will have to rent private. Have been ringing around tons of estate…
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Post Survey renegotiations, property downvalued.
Hi all Im buying a 50s property, I've made an offer, been accepted and had a survey carried out. My survey indicates that there are several areas of concern, several minor issues for eg lack of ventilation to loft etc and some more critical sounding ones including, lack of ventilation to closed chimneys, wet rot to windows…
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Are you planning any viewings this easter?
Are you planning any viewings this easter? :)
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Renting property whilst abroad - tax and interest issues
First, apologies if this has been asked before and I've not been able to find the thread (actually, it almost certainly has been asked before.. EVERYTHING has!). I am considering moving abroad (Canada). I own a flat which has been on the market for some time but not attracted anyone at least interested enough to say 'knock…
