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extortionate check-out fee on rental
My landlord has decided to move back into the property that I rent, after only 7 months of my living here. I've gotten used to the extortionate and often unexpected costs that Your Move keep dropping on me. But now I've received a letter saying that they'll take £114 from my security deposit to pay for the 'checkout fee'.…
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Useful information for new owners
My house is sold :jI complete on Thursday! Im just writing a 'useful information' sheet for the new owners - young FTBs... Ive included info on the stopcock location/ fusebox/ alarm code/ bin day/ residents association... Anything else you can think of I need to tell them??
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Grade II listed advice
Offer has been accepted on a semi-detached cottage that we have fallen in love with. Cottage was advertised as 'listing to be confirmed' as the vendors were investigating if it was listed or not. Our offer was accepted and is now confirmed that it is grade II listed. Problem is the current owners have lived there for 20+…
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selling a shared flat
Hi, I recently posted as I was contemplating buying my flatmate out of her share of our shared ownership flat. I had the flat valued today, which completely stunned me and has left me with 2 queries. Firstly: when we purchased our flat in 2006 it was valued at £250,000. Today 2 estate agents said that it should go on the…
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Opinion on house survey comment confusion
When we bought our house a year ago there was a comment on the report that there was some hairline cracking on the property however this was longstanding and non progressive. We insured with direct line who were fine with this. When it came to renewal time I tried a lot of other companies they said a flat no to insuring.…
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Timeshare nightmare
Hi all, I bought a timeshare 5 years ago and used and enjoyed it at the time. Now with everyone under financial pressure and mainitenace fees over 200% increase from when I purchased, we desparately want to get rid. There are loads of companies claiming they want to buy my timeshare but not sure what to do. I do want to…
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I didn't sign an estate agent contract
It has just occured to me that I never actually signed anything. The estate agent who did our photographs forgot to get us to sign a contract and then soon after left and nothing more was said about it! Our buyer was initially introduced to us by the estate agents but on our own agreement we decided to communicate directly…
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Naming & shaming website
Hi there, - Having posted a thread here yesterday about my experience with a dishonest seller - Having realised from the various responses and other threads on the forum the extent of the problem of undignified buyers & sellers - Having acknowledged that it will probably take a while for the property law to change (well…
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The exchange stage
We are in a chain of 3- cash buyer, us, empty house and our buyers want to exchange contracts Friday and complete Tuesday-our vendor has been ready for some time as we had to get a new buyer as the old one pulled out at the last minute. What I was wondering is, how does it work? We have a different solicitor for the sale…
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Quick guide on how not to get ripped off by landlords
I have been ripped off so many times, so I thought this will help you and save you months or years of pain. If you find this helpful just let know anyone, thanks to internet we tenants we can finally know what happens in this world. These problems they will pop up at night especially, or during the summer, or you will find…
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Deed of rectification or indemnity insurance?
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help. I am currently in the middle of purchasing a property (we made an offer at the end of January). The house we are buying is ex council and has had the same owners since it was built - 1950. (They are deceased so the property is being sold by their family). Our solicitor noticed on…
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rules on pricing houses
been to look at a property that has been on the market since may 2010 and not sold it , it was first priced at 145, 000 but recently been put on rightmove for as it says OFFERS OVER 130,000 , the 130 and below bracket now show this property , but when we have put offer in for this property, we keep getting knocked back ,…
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Coal Mining reports?
Hi, The purchase of our house is going through at the moment and we have just received the mortagge offer from the building society. Under the "Special Offer Conditions" it states a mining report is needed. I understand this as we already live near there and it was a mining area. What confuses me is on the Mortgage…
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Question about renting
Hello, I have a question about renting and the reference checks etc. Both my husband and I are self-empoyed, we've been self-employed for the past 6 months (me), husband 12 months. I just spoke to a letting agency and they said there is "no chance in hell we get approved by keysafe TV"... because we don't have 3 years…
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Ending an assured short hold tennacy
Hi, I've had a search around but I can't seem to find the exact answer. My contract is up in the middle of May and today I told my landlord I do not want to renew. He has now stated that I must give two months notice which takes me into June as I have a two month break clause. There is nothing in my contract stating this…
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Offer after agent contract expired
Hi, Hopefully someone can provide some advice for this situation. Our property was put on the market last August with a sole agency. We decided to end the contract as viewings had been minimal. I spoke to the agent and explained this and we agreed that the contract would expire after a remaing 2 weeks. Just after the…
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LHA has been reduced so going to struggle - what's my best option?
I work part time and receive some Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to help pay my rent. I currently pay £500 per month to rent a 3 bed terrace privately, and as there is only myself and my 4yo son (plus cat!) living there, I only get the 2 bed rate of LHA, which is fair enough. My LHA has just been reduced by £12.23 per week,…
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Unadopted road and new build property...
hi guys I posted recently regarding a section 38 agreement not being in place yet on the last phase of a new build development where we were due to exchange contracts last Weds. Our solicitor picked up on the fact that the last part of the development hasn't yet been adopted by the local Council (the road is still not up…
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Adding Name to Deeds
Is it easy to add my daugters name to the deeds of our house. Chipy
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Buying a newbuild
We are FTB and found a new build flat by Bellway. Its currently up for sale at £228,000. Most of the site has already been sold and they are finishing off the last set of flats. Me and my partner were thinking of using there 'Sharp Start' scheme which means we can put down a 5% deposit supplemented by a 15% interested free…
