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Letting your property through the council
Hello everyone, I need some advice. We would like to rent our flat through Lambeth council, but I googled it and read every single thread...I can't find anything about the process. Housing Office is Metropolitain ( Clapham Park home) and again can't find anything online. Ideally we wanted to rent our flat out by having the…
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Tenants in common and other options
Hi, I am an only child living with a single parent. We are looking into becoming tenants in common in our home but most of the info I can find is for couples with children not people in our situation. Woould TiC be the best option for us or are there other possibilities? And what are the implications for us? Thanks
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Secure council tenancy - temporarily renting out one room
Can not find any info on my Council's website, some on Shelter but not what I am looking for. Perhaps someone here knows and can point me to the right place for the regulations regarding this? I am a secure council tenant (about 9 year I think) in a 2 bed flat. AS my daughter has (temporarily) moved out wanting to try…
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First Time Buyer: Part Buy Part Rent, First Buy, New Buy or Open Market Option
Dear All, I need to hear from you and get some advise on what option would be best for me as a first time buyer. Looking for our first property but we would like to go for the best option available to us and also putting into consideration monthly repayments. 1. Part Buy Part Rent 2. First Buy 3. New Buy 4. Open Market…
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No building regs for loft room - walk away????
[FONT="]Been looking for a property for some time and finally found something that ticked all our boxes – so we thought.[/FONT] [FONT="]It’s a 3 bed end of terrace which has a dormer loft conversion. The conversion is about 10 years old and seems to be in good condition. Whilst speaking to another agent we have…
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No dposit and I can't find it in any scheme?!
I've been renting a flat for 2 1/2 years and handed my keys in 10 days ago, I've not received the deposit back or heard how much the LL wants to deduct. There was a bit of damage a carpet burn and marks on the wall. The landlord was a private landlord and the flat was his first and only rental property, I remember when i…
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When to give Notice to Quit to Landlord ?
Hi all Hopefully I will be exchanging contracts soon on a house and I can finally get out of rented accommodation :j The question is - when do I give notice ? My AST ran from 24th April 2009 to 23rd October 2009. From then on, it's been a rolling periodic tenancy. The rent initially went out on the 24th of the month, but I…
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Survey back - couple of questions
Hi All We just had our survey results back - the valuation all came back fine and surveyor felt that all issues he had highlighted were normal for a building of its age and condition (a 4-bed 1970's semi). There were two items raised as level 3 (the most serious). The first was a standard point that the surveyor hadnt…
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electricity bill ( live in landlord)
Hi, My wife and I are renting a room with everything included in the price. We only have a verbal agreement and we've been here for almost a year. The initial price was 480£ but we paid 540£ from the start, the extra 60£ for being a couple. Two months in the rent was increased by another 50£ to 590£ because of the winter…
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House Valuation:-(
Ex and I split up in January this year. We had the house valued as we were going to sell it, then because of his job the plans changed. The house was valued at £220k for a 5 bed semi with part commercial. Were looking to put the house on the market at £245k He has now agreed that I can sell the house, so have had a couple…
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New to renting and confused
Hi there We have been having trouble getting a mortgage as we have recently become self employed. As we need relocate due to work we have decided to rent our property out and rent somewhere near to work. I had no idea how expensive this would be. We are using LA's to rent ours out and also to rent. We need to pay our…
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New Build Snagging
Just after a bit of advice on snagging. We're due to complete next week on a new build and was wondering how far to go with the snaggs. We have noticed a few minor things such as a scratch on the bathroom door handle and other minor marks. What sort of level of detail have others gone down to? The house is by a smaller…
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Allowable expenses against rental income
I purshased an old property 2 years ago with the aim of renovating it, splitting it into flats and letting them out. This I have done and the rental income has been coming in for the last 6 month's. The purchase money for the house was raised against my own home through a remorgage. As I have been paying the mortgage…
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Milton Keynes EA Reviews...
Any idea if anything like this would be avaliable? Failing that anyone recently brought or ideally sold in MK and have any positives or negatives they can share?! Thanks :beer:
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My buyer
I'm new to the forum and would appreciate some advice please. I've been on the market a month with 2 viewings. The first viewers expressed an interest but then cancelled 2 subsequent seconds visits. My second viewer came once a week ago and put an offer in the same day without a second viewing. The agent says he has a good…
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1st time potential buyer - where to start?
Having recenly viewed a house and love it I was wondering how to go about looking for a mortage? We are 1st time buyers. do we go to banks ourselves or mortage shop place or other? Not really got any spare cash to pay for unnecessary things if we could do it ourselves but not sure if getting a mortage is something we are…
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Why would I pay more to market my property with an agent...
if an agent has quoted me £1k less in % fee's? Am I overlooking things here. % is important to us but how can agency charge very differing prices? The agency we are looking to instruct offer floorplan, premium listing board etc so why should we consider the other agent (who did give me a sales pitch) but did not convince…
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Old Landlord won't provide reference that new landlord insists on
Title explains it really. Can anyone advise what to do next? This has happened to a colleague. After 2 years of being good tenants and paying their rent on time, they want to move to a different flat. The new LL/LA insists on a reference from the old LL, but he has ignored all requests. The LA through whom they arranged…
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Guarantor Information....
Guarantor how much information should be ask asked by a letting agent? Do they need to know how much a guarantor earns ie gross annual income, amount of addition income, provide details of additional income, National insurance number,All work details,Next of kins, accountant details, pension providers details, previous…
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Liability for roof?
I currently own/ live in a property that was converted many years ago into one lower and one upper 1/4 villa. I own the lower and whenever there has been problems with the roof my neighbour upstairs has been telling me I am liable for half of it. However, recently someone mentioned that if they have converted the roof/…
