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New to being a Private Landlord
Hi, I'm a long time viewer on this forum, but only just joined. Needing advise about becoming a private landlord (and first time being a landlord) I currently have a house, where I use Santander to prvide my Mortgage. They have agreed to give consent to let for a small fee. The people that I will be renting to are long…
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Should I be worried?
Hi We sold our house 8 weeks ago to a cash buyer who is planning on developing the property and then renting or selling it. All was going through ok and planned completion was supposed to be the end of May. However, buyers solicitor has recommended an additional survey and certificate and advised the buyer not to exchange…
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EA tells me their 'home buyer deposit scheme' is fab...
I'm on the point of instructing an EA to sell my property. One of them is pitching to me that their 'home buyer deposit scheme' is unique in allowing buyers with less than 5%-10% deposit to make a purchase, hence they can generate more proceedable buyers. Does this sound plausible, or are there now 100% mortgages…
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Late Payments, Rent, student letting agency
Hey up, You guys seem to know your stuff, so wondered if anyone can shine some light on this. Story is that my landlord (well, the letting agency) have told me a month ago that I owe them about £170 in late payments for rent for January and rent for April/May. Lets start with January. My loan money came in late due to some…
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joint mortgage but sole ownership!!!!!
Hello everyone, Just when i thought everything was going to plan...a big hiccup. well if anyone has read my previous thread..we are about to let our property out and purchase another to move into(in a nutshell). While i was getting my conset to let for our property, i can across our land registry documet with the title…
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Getting impatient!
Hi all Well we have had our surveys come back satisfactory although I am yet to actually see it. Is this normal? We also got our official mortgage offer yesterday!! :j There is no chain either side so I am hoping everything else runs quickly and smoothly now.
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How long untill I hear anything ???
Hi We accepted a offer a week ago Wednesday. We informed our EA which solicitor to use the Friday after. We still haven't heard anything from either our solicitor or the buyers surveyor. Our EA has said that the buyers solicitor had called the start of this week to say the buyers sale is as far as it can go and to start…
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Help no fensa certificates
Hi, in the process of selling our house and recently realised that we were never sent the fensa certificates for patio doors and windows. We couldn't get hold of the builder so phoned Fensa and they said they had no records of any work being done at our address! They told us to get back to builder which we have and he's…
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Renting New Build Flat
I looked at a flat last week which is a new build so we went to view. The whole place was finished except carpets/flooring but we assumed that would be done before we moved in. The letting agents have just been on the phone and I asked about the carpets and they said we had to fit them as the advert said it was…
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Moving in with partner
I am shortly moving in with my girlfriend who has bought a house. I am not worried about losing any money I put into the flat or anything, I just want to know where we stand. If I live with her paying towards bills and council tax etc, will that give me any right to the house (we don't want that situation) or would it be…
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CSA oder for sale & estate agent fees
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Land Registry Info
Hi Guys, I have been asked by an elderly relative to help obtain some land registry documents from their website to sort out a dispute. I believe that i have to pay a few pounds for the documents. Will the land owners know that i have browsed or requested their information from the land registry - as i do not want to get…
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Student letting agency behaving fairly?
My student daugher and her friends have arranged to rent a house though a letting agents for the next academic year. It is a shared house and they are 'jointly and severally liable' (as am I, as gaurantor - not very thrilled about that, but what can you do?) They are having to pay half rent for July and August even though…
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Estate Agents Fees for a low value Property
Hi All, First post and I'm in the need of a bit of guidance before I lose "my rag" with estate agents. I have my late mothers house to sell (probate granted), and the house is only worth about £70k. I thought I would be able to sell the house with estate agents fees of anything from 0.5% to 1%, but NO !!!! I've rang…
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Tenancy ends in 2 weeks, LL incommunicado!
Our Tenancy ends on the 27th of June. LL served us with a S21, quite happy as it all tied in with our house purchase with a 2 week overlap. I sent our LL a letter via post and email asking if he would be carrying out a Check out inspection and could we arrange it for the 27th at tea time. We haven't heard anything back…
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Estate Agent Enticing Me with Buyer in Place
An estate agent I had come round for a valuation a few months ago gave me a call today. I didn't sign up with anyone in the end. They have been calling me periodically since my initial contact. This time they dangled the bait that they had someone likely to make an offer on a neighbouring apartment (very similar to mine)…
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Just took the Plunge (FTB)
Weve just taken the plunge, having read a lot on here about house buying, etc. We spotted an end of terrace for sale locally for 140k viewed it a few times and placed an offer based on a few defects it has (127k) as expected it was rejected, so we waited a few more days, requested an agent only viewing to have a good only…
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Rental Inventory missing items claim
Hi, I recently had a checkout report for the property I was renting and vacating. The landlord wants to claim for something that isn't listed in writing on the inventory. However, a photo of the living room (which is in the inventory report) does show then ornament present). The LL wants to claim £80 for it being missing.…
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buying a house without building control completion certificate
Hello, I found a house to buy, which was extended at the rear (single storey only) by previous owners (not the current ones) at some point before 2004. The extension was done under Permitted Development hence no planning application exist. It looks as though the building control completion certificate does not exist either…
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Want to buy NOW but is Probate granted yet?????????
Wanting to buy a value house, unfortunately EA says others are seriously interested and is trying to create a sealed bid situation. I am a perfect sell-to-rent buyer with little problem raising the cash, the other interests, if they seriously exist, almost certainly have property to sell. It is an executors sale and the…
