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BTL Tax Info Wanted Please
My brother and I are thinking about buying a house to let out, obviously we would get professional advice before taking the plunge but thought I would pick some brains on here first. Reading around it seems that you can deduct certain things for tax purposes such as mortgage interest, landlord insurance etc.. Could…
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Possible to move cities under Housing association?
hi i recently (well it's been over a month) moved to live with my partner. he was on the housing association list since 2009 and finally got a place in 2011. his family had a 3 bedroom house but with loads of siblings it was overcrowded. i moved from a city to elsewhere and even after 'settling' i feel i cannot stay here…
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Desperate to leave mortgaged property
Hi there Looking for some advice really. Been in our home a couple of years but we expect that the value of the property may now be less than what we owe on it. We are having two estate agent valuations next week. We cannot stay in the property any longer realistically. The area has gone so downhill that we dread being at…
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Landlord charging for Ground Rent notice?
I've had a Google search, but can't seem to find the answer. We pay Ground Rent as part of our leasehold agreement. Or at least we would if the landlord would send us the legally required notice. They've sent us a letter today (7 weeks after our last one no less) saying that they don't send a notice to any of their tenants…
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Giving notice in the middle of the calendar month
I can't seem to find an answer to this so I'm hoping someone on here can help. We have a periodic monthly tenancy running from the last day in the month. The lease hasn't been renewed so I assume that the terms of the original lease agreement apply. We want to move out in four weeks time. Our contract states that we must…
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How soon to market house....
We will be moving in March/April 2012 and will have no upward chain. How early should we market our present house? Would somebody buy now knowing we cannot move out for 9 months? We though to start about September. We are tempted by the online agents on cost grounds. We don't really expect much of them and are happy to do…
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FTB Panic!
Hi all, I had an offer agreed on a property as a FTB, no onward chain. Living with parent for time being, and reason I've brought now rather than build up more then the large deposit I have is that as part of parents divorce they agreed to sell the house and the parent I live with is moving up north. Was originally told…
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To buy or not to buy - boundary issue
We have found a property that is ideal in every way and are thinking of making an offer, although there is one big issue that worries us. When viewing the property, we noticed that the neighbours roof over their ground floor extension, overhangs this property's conservatory by about 1 foot. Whilst it is not a problem now,…
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Renting to D.S.S. not in contracts?
..Hello, ...Does anyone know if it's true that most buy-to-let landlords cannot let to people on benefits because there is a clause in their contracts(signed when they purchased) that prohibits this. Was told that this was discussed on the radio the other day but missed it. Around here it's virtually impossible to get…
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2nd viewing on Monday
We had a viewing on our house this morning and had a call from the EA this afternoon to say that the lady seemed very positive, and would like to come back on Monday and bring her daughter along for a second opinion. I'm trying not to get too excited (but it's very hard!). I'm telling myself that she might be taking her…
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Guarantor to provide ID in person?
I'm loath to post this as at the moment I don't have sight of documents and am going by word of mouth. My son is going to be renting, with friends, an apartment in the Manchester area. One of the parents (not us) has volunteered to be the guarantor - I presume agreeing to pay the rental if her offspring & his friends do…
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Tenant left-council seeking overpayments back
Hi, the story is long but hope someone give me a usefull advice: i am the landlord who rented the property to the LHA (DSS) tenant. In February 2011, the Council stopped paying the rent as allegedly my tenant vacated the property in September 2010 and according to them I did not inform them of the change. They asked me to…
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Survey returned at valuation but ......
A couple of things flagged up we weren't expecting. We had budgeting for most things, including installing central heating, but in addition to concerns about the heating, the electrics were flagged up as an immediate cause for concern. A family member is a spark, so im not unduly worried about the cast, although it…
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Proof of Employment as temp
Hi there I recently moved into a flat as a subtenant. I have just found out that the tenancy expires 31 July and to stay I will need to sign the new tenancy, and go through a full credit check etc with the LA. First of all I'm worried about the credit check. I recently tried to get instore credit and was declined. So I…
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question regarding eviction notice
Hi, a friend of mine has been given a eviction notice, only dated yesterday so 10.06.2011. She has been told to vacate on the 21.07.2011, i thought it had to be two months notice? Is this right?? Help and advice would be much appreciated Thanks
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fraudulent money claim...
It has come to light that the previous owner of my flat has been renting out my designated parking space to a shared car ownership company for the last 4 years, since I moved in. As people on my street use each others spaces, and I didn't previously have a car, I hadn't been aware of it before. Since discovering this I…
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has anyone ever regretted moving?
We live in a terraced house in a very quiet street. House is massive compared to a new build. Most neighbours are nice. Only downsides are no off-street parking and few episodes of vandalism on car. I never ever come back to the house thinking I wish I didn't live here. We were looking to move into a semi or detached house…
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Cheapest Packing Box & bubble wrap company?
Hi All After many many months...we are about to complete on our sale! Hurrah! But now we need to put all of our stuff into storage (FYI: we cant afford to rent and still waiting for a decent house to come up) Anyone know of any cheap online companies that sell packaging stuff bubble wrap and boxes? Any tips? Many thanks…
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New house purchase - Sewer pipe under house ?
Just got the land registry plan for a new house purchase and it shows a sewer running under the house should i be worried ? - its 7 years old with NHBC guarrantee - no visible problems - most sewers must run under houses at some point views gratefully accepted thanks
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Advice Needed - I don't know what to do
Hi all, My husband and I are first time buyers. We have just received the contracts from our solicitors and read through these and signed them. We have agreed a moving in date of 24th June (2 weeks). Everything has been going surprisingly well and the sale seems to have been stress free for us. Then, yesterday my husband…
