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Property investment course??
Hi, Has anyone done an property investment course? Which one was it? Do you recommend it? How much and how long was it? Did you also cover things like legal structure and tax? Thank you!!
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Tenants
Hi, im looking to buy a house. the bit im unsure about is the property is has short hold tenancy and the contract ends in 2012. i am planing to move within 2 months after the property is mine. how can i get the tenants to leave?
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Vendors haven't responded to enquiries...
To be honest it hasn't been that long but everything else is in place almost for exchange. Our solicitors sent enquiries and the enquiries that came from the searches about 2 weeks ago, the vendor's solicitor has them but hasn't heard from them since. Our EA said that they can't chase anymore and the vendors have found a…
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Complaining about the agents selling your house
2 things have really annoyed me about the agents selling our property. 1 - Losing contact details of a keen viewer (after we had accepted an offer, which then fell through). And then 2 - Having our property still showing as SOLD in the window, despite it being back on the market for 3 weeks! Are these worthy of complaint?…
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How long should we leave our house on the market?
We have had our house on the market since July last year. Our reasons for wanting to move are to be nearer to our son's school and my husband's work, and to have a larger garden, but we would be staying in the local area, so we are lucky in that we are not desperate to move. However we have seen another property we like…
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Private Renting Advice
Hi, My partner and I are currently renting seperate flats, his private and mine through the council. We are planning to move in together in a few months into a private let but I have bad credit rating. We are wondering if it's possible to both be named on the tenancy but he goes through the credit check and is the liable…
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Photography!
I'm no longer looking for a house, but still looking for decorating ideas, and came across this beauty of an advert on Rightmove. I wonder whether the EA actually wants to sell this place! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29404798.html I'm sure I could take better photos than that, and the description…
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Landlord's contractors
Recently, our landlord has been sending various contractors around to examine our property (architects, surveyors, decorators, builders etc). It's now got to the stage that one or two are coming a week. I know that the landlord and her contractors are allowed reasonable access to the property if they give notice (usually…
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Scottish Rental Inventory - Cost? Value? Legal requirement?
Hi all Any advice or information would be appreciated - I currently rent out my house - have done so for last two years and dealt with everything myself without any issue ... yet! My current tenant is now moving on so I've asked a letting agent to look at it this time around. They've advised me to get an inventory done at…
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Estate Agent and Viewings.
Hi All, My property has been on the market for a few weeks and I've had a few viewings. Now I understand, with the exception of the south east of England, that it's a buyer's market, and selling a house now is not easy, but my estate agents seem to be sending ANYONE around to view! To date, I haven't had anyone view that…
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housing association
hi guys, ive been searching the internet looking for advice on my situation but cant seem to find much. i currently live next door to housing association accomodation. until now its been fine but now we have irish travellers in there. its becoming a bit of a nightmare but nothing too bad really to complain about. i was…
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Home Contents Insurance For a Let Flat
Hi I'm intending on letting my one bed flat (first time landlord). Is anyone aware of a specific home contents insurance that I should apply for? As the LL I obviously need to keep up the contents insurance as I'd be responsible for costs if there was a leak etc, plus my carpets and some furniture will remain at the…
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Can I sue the vendor; the EA; or just winge about it here?
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Housing options....
Hi just looking for some advice really... After my husband lost his job we were forced to move back to my mums as we could not afford the property we were in (we had found somewhere cheaper but it fell through and new tenants had already been found for our house!). We have only been living here 2 months but my mum has had…
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Is this normal vendor behaviour?
Hello! I'm new here. We are first time buyers with finance in place. We made an offer on a house two weeks ago - on for £218 000, but had been on the market a year. So we went in at £190 000, thinking this was reasonable. Vendor immediately rejected in a fairly snotty way ("we wouldn't move for 190" "that's way off, we…
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Landlord not fulfilling obligations
Hi, I've been living in a flat in London for 9 years. When we moved in, the flat was in a poor state and required lots of cleaning. At the time, we carried out the cleaning ourselves and didn't complain or request rent to be reduced in exchange for the cleaning work. The rates for property were good and so perhaps we felt…
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Buying a PRC Council house - survey
Hi Situation is as such: Person is looking to buy their council house All in the council have valued it at around £60,000. This is based on the valuer who came around and had a quick look and what other houses have sold for. The tenannt has a general idea of the condition of the house (good enough to live in without having…
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Urgent can someone help??
Urgent please can someone answer please Hi all Just a quick question. Me and my partner were supposed to getting a rented home, the letting agent said it was a long term let at 12 month intervals, which was great for us as that was exactly what we were looking for, but now the agent has informed us today that it's 6 months…
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First time buyer, new build... utilities question..
Hey there, first of all I've searched for this question to no avail and thought I'd ask it in here.. Me and the Fianc! are moving into our first house and it's a new build so no previous contracts etc. My question is, how do I go about sorting utilities (Gas, electric, water, phone etc), do the house builder (Barratts)…
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Bad Credit History destroying me
Hi All, I am currently renting a property which is costing me £525 a month. I have seen a property and had an offer accepted. Here is the problem. On my Equifax report i have seen that there are quite a few late payments on my accounts over the past year. this was due to a car accident which caused me to only recieve half…
