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No consent to let
I have been renting out my house for some time, but without a consent to let from the mortgage company. I knew I should have got this but at the time I started renting I could not afford the possible extra percentage on the interest. I do know this was wrong, but at the time just could not afford for the mortgage conpany…
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Trying to buy a repossessed house
Hi, I hope someone here can help me. I placed an offer on a repossessed house in May and there was another party who were interested so we were asked to provide our best and final offers within 5 days (mine was slightly higher to start with). Unfortunately mine was not the highest offer (I was told the other offer was…
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Property bought at auction
Hi Friends, This is my first post, but im after a little help/advice on what is the best proposals to complete on my property purchase. Here is the details: 1) I saw a property that i was previously interested in 3 years ago, i did all the usual checks etc, and then managed to contact the owner, The purchase price…
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service charge issue
i rent a apartment from a housing association, in our tenancy agreement there is a service charge thats paid weekly to the ha along with our rent. the problem is the service havent been provided in over 7 months. these are gardening, road and pathways, internal cleaning in communal areas and key tag door entry the site i…
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Selling my house without an estate agent
Hi I am hoping for some advice with regards to seling my house. I know someone who wants to buy my house its not on the market yet. With out an estate agent just a soliciter. I am wanting to know how I go abou this? I had it valued and they are going to just check they can get a morgage for that amount. I have someone…
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Building regs and "unstable" tenant
Background (you don't have to read all this, but it may help to understand my questions): I have had excellent tenants for four years. In January this year they approached me to ask if I would sell the house to them. After much soul searching I accepted and we agreed a price. They dragged their heels but eventually…
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Letting out my late father's property
Hi everyone, really hoping I can get some advice on this.... Sadly, my father passed away earlier this year. In his Will, he named my brother as the executor, and stated that his grandchildren should all get a particular sum of money from his estate and the rest should be divided equally between my brother, myself, and my…
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Help! Chain ready for echange - our buyer putting in a last minute cheeky request...
:mad: We are in a chain of 3 about to exchange, working towards completing on 29th July... All ready to go, but our buyer has just this morning announced that he wants us to pay £445 for the fuse box to be updated or else he's not exchaning today, and is going on leave for a few weeks so won't be able to exchange until…
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Selling house moving to rented when to sign rental contract?
Hi all, Just a quick question. We are in the process of selling our house to someone who is buying it as a Buy-To-Let. The contracts are being prepared by our solicitor at the moment. As our property has been on the market a while and also as we have new jobs in the next county we decided to go into rented rather than buy…
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How should I handle this?
I've been looking over the last few months for my first property to buy. I saw a property at the start of my search that I liked, but when I phoned to view was told the property was sold subject to contract. Last week the property came back on the market, the previous buyers mortgage application had fallen through. I had…
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Finding out the agency for a let property?
Hello I live in a converted victorian house, split into 4 flats. We all own our flats (leasehold) but the owner of the next door flat to me has moved away (before I moved in) and it's currently rented out. I need to get hold of the owner as I'd like to change the fencing in our adjoining gardens but no one else in the…
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Renting: How Do Earnings Relate to Renting?
I was wondering if anyone had a little advice, as I’m having a few problems getting any useful information from the agent I’ve been dealing with. Basically, my situation is this; I work aboard quite a lot so have to leave my rented property empty sometimes, which I don’t like, and my brother is currently a student so has a…
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Rules : Allowing Rental Viewings
Hi All I'm comming up to the end of an AST which will expire on 28th October 2011. I'm buying a new house and we are very close to exchange which will hopefully happen by the end of the month (but it's not guaranteed). I have not informed the letting agency yet that I will be surrendering the house at the end of the AST…
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End of tenancy cleaning - will this be enough?
As our move approaches (yay!) I've been going through our tenancy agreement with a fine toothed comb. It does say that we need to have the property professionally cleaned when we leave. Now, we have a cleaning lady who comes once a week. We don't have kids or pets and so the house is generally pretty clean. If we got the…
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Buyer's Agents
Has anyone had any experience using buyer's agents (like Stacks, Sourcing Property etc.) when buying a property? What were those experiences like, good or bad? My main issue is time due to a demanding job and consequently I'm potentially looking to use an agent who can do the leg work and diligence for me and potentially…
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want to buy the other half of a house left to me
Amazingly I have been left half of my uncle's house and have the option to buy the other half off the executors. The house is valued at £225,000 and we are paying £112,500. The probate solicitor is saying that we are purchasing the house outright and may be liable for stamp duty at 1%. I wanted to use the half we had been…
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left 1/4 share in house, best way to buy out others
Hi Thanks for looking, am a new poster. I would like some advice please. My partner has been left a 25% share of his family home in will. There are 3 others family members. 2 would like their share now. The problem is the elderly father is still living in the house. As it’s a quite large house I have suggest that we…
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Enforcement of restrictive convenants
We are in the process of buying an old house in Devon. We are currently in a new modern apartment in Bristol so a big change for us. A convenant dating back to around 1880 is in place that states the land can only be used for one private dwelling. About 30 years ago a large part of the front garden was sold off and a house…
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Outrageous agency charges.. Is it legal???
I try to rent one bedroom apartment through Gascoigne-Pees. The price of rent is GBP 750 per month and a month and half deposit. I received the offer letter from Gascoigne-Pees with the break down costs and I can't believe they charged me GBP 468 extra over GBP 750 worth renting apartment. Here is the break down GBP 150…
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Block Viewings - making an offer
Hi, We are viewing houses to buy at the moment, and are going to see one over the weekend. However, the estate agent has said that there will be the only the one block viewing for all interested parties. After this, they are open to offers. The house itself is pretty cheap (considering location and size etc), i am assuming…
