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Bass heavy neighbour
Hi All Been a little while since posting my elation at buying my first home, a 2 bed ex-council flat. Well we moved in and are slowly decorating and making it homely but we have an issue with 1 neighbour. The couple on the floor below us, but on other side of building, have music blasting most days which doesn;t bother us…
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Insurance when renting out house
Received an email this morning about this which offers an all singing and dancing cover - legal fees, missed rent, alterative accommodation etc etc Does anyone take out these kind of insurances? Considering renting out our house - avid reader of this site so know most of the 'must do' :D . Just wondering about insurance…
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Planning To Have A House Repossessed
Hi, we own a house which has devalued dramatically since buying it in 2006. We paid £154,000 for it, and have an outstanding mortgage of just over £125,000. We are now living over 300 miles away in a rented property. it has been on the market for 12 months and has had no interest at all. the town has a 10 year building…
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MOVING ABROAD, Need a quick house sale
Hi all, Our house has been up for sale since Feb time, Had people round but like the other houses in the area, nothing is selling. (We're in Portsmouth) Thing is we MUST sell and complete by June, as we are moving abroad and have a deadline to be there. Does anybody think the companys that buy houses fast cash etc are any…
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landlord won't fix the central heating
Hi everyone, I moved into my rented flat in February. As I suffer from Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis I took the flat because it had gas central heating and keeping warm in winter is vital (I am also a pensioner). Whilst the flat was being refurbed before I moved in, the landlord decided to have the old gas boiler…
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Useless Estate Agents
well perhaps not useless, because they have sold both houses - but useless to deal with. I have bought a house through, let's call them W H Orange - fortunately the owners gave us phone numbers during second viewings, and I'd already agreed prices with them and told them I'd offer the next day - they were thrilled. I…
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odd situation advice please
got home on thursday night and i had a letter of my lettings agency, it said thank you for your letter about terminating your tenancy, you final inspection will be on 3rd may where you will hand over the keys ect... now i never wrote this letter i have no idea what they are on about i am going to call them in the morning…
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Estate Agents not updating their website/RightMove
Ahhh this is driving me spare. OH and I have scoured the Internet and various local EA websites for properties to view. We had picked out about 4 and of the 4 only 1 is actually up for sale!!! The rest have all been sold, taken off the market and "I didn't even know that was still on there!" Less of a quiestion and more of…
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Viewing a house the questions to ask?
Going to view a house tomorrow, just wondering what the invaluable questions are to ask the vendor? The house is currently in the process of being built and it just about up to 1st floor level. Currently all I'm aware of in my naeivity is to ask if all the 'white goods' will be included (dish washer, cooker etc) and…
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private tenant advice please !!
Hi newbie to the forum, Can any one help!!! im in need of some information on my current situation. Im currently a tenant renting a private house.My tenancy is up for renewal on the 3rd may and the agency im with has sent me a letter along with a new 12 month tenancy agreement to sign say to renew i have to pay £50 per…
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House for Sale, Bizarre Bricked Up Kitchen Window?
Is it just me, or does this look really odd? Love to know what's going on. http://media.rightmove.co.uk/11k/10786/32738279/10786_PEA1001060_IMG_02_0000_max_620x414.jpg From the photos that wall's got uninterrupted views into the neighbour's garden, so maybe the neighbours objected when it was converted to a 1-bed bungalow.
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renting out my home
I am currently on an interest only mortgage and would like to rent my one bed flat out. Do I have to inform the mortgage company and will they make me go onto repayments? Also will the rental income be taxed? Advice welcome
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preparing a house for renting out?
What needs to be done? We have our house up for sale but are coming round to the idea that it probably wont sell for what we want for it and therfore wont be worth selling for the next few years. So we are thinking about renting it out. We are just wondering what we need to do before its "rentable" ?? so far all we have…
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Portsmouth and surrounding area
My OH has been offered a place at uni in portsmouth. We are looking to buy a house this summer (and have a morgage promise) my problem is I dont know the portsmouth area at all (so will probs rent when we first move there) but does anyone know which bits we should be looking at. We dont mind living further out…
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12 years to go?
How would any of you helpful knowledgeable people go about buying a property to retire into in 10 years time? Is Buy to Let safe or possible for me at 63 yrs? I have a bigish house and a cottage. The house is the family home and although as a recent widow it doesn't for me now seem like a home any longer one son still…
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Renting out a flat.
Hello I would like to rent out my flat but not sure where to begin. Can anyone offer some advice to get me started? Who do I need to speak to? What kind of costs are involved? My reasons for renting rather than selling are that I haven't paid enough of my mortgage off to make any real profit and it also gives me the option…
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Anybody own a holiday property in Orlando?
I am interested in a property for sale and am wondering how other Brits found the process. I have made tentative enquiries about a property on the market and am researching now. I will need to raise the funds from equity on my UK home or get a mortgage for the Orlando one. Any experiences greatly appreciated.
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Selling my flat-when is an offer an offer?
Hello All, I am currently trying to sell my flat. Have received 3 offers so far. I accepted the highest and was happy with the price. Since then however this potential buyer has visited the flat to take another look and announced that he is not ready to proceed and is still looking at other properties. I told him that as…
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Where to live? Rochdale to Leeds
My boyfriend has just been offered a job in Littleborough in Rochdale so we will have to move from our current home in South Cheshire. I am keen to work in Leeds, where I went to University so we would ideally like to live somewhere between Rochdale and Leeds or somewhere with an easy commute to Leeds. As we are both young…
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Deposit and landlord troubles
Hello, I know there have been other questions about deposits but they do not quite match the situation I am in so I hope someone can help. On moving into a house, the Letting Agents told us we had to sign the inventory in their office, then make any amends to it within 5 days which we did. The inventory was mostly…
