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Rental Deposit Not Returned Even After 4 Weeks! Help!
Hi all, I am a newbie here. I was renting a property previously and moved from there to a new one a month back. The rental deposit was with DPS and the real estate agent asked me to request for repayment from DPS to start the process of giving back the rent, which I did promptly. Please note that the inventory check was…
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Buying a house & splitting into 2 seperate flats
Hi, I am interested in purchasing a property which is currently one large house but is split into 2 seperate flats. The owner lives in one flat and rents the other out to his friend on a non contract basis. The property is old (couple of hundred years) and at one point I guess must have been a large house, but it looks…
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When I terminate and pay the rent, can I leave before the end of the notice period?
Hi All, Let me try to explain. I will send my termination letter on Monday. Contractual my monthly renewal is on the 9th of each month, at least that is when the rent is due. Landlord came around on Queens Jubilee to tell us he wants to move back in, but did not give a written notice and has given us 3 months additional…
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I think we've dropped ourselves in it.
Kind of just want confirmation/advise. We are in the process of buying/selling a property. We have had no buyers from the EA and as such decided to come off the market. Had a confirmation letter from the EA with a final date of October. That's sounded a long time so I checked the contract. It appears we have a 21week Sole…
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home for life plans
just discovered this plan on a estate agents website,has anybody heard of this and is it a good idea ?
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Service fees on maisonette
We are looking into buying a maisonette. It has it's own seperate entrance and each maisonette has it's own private garden so there are no communal areas at all. The agent told us if the roof were to fall in the cost would have to be shared between all residents...put there is a £330 per annum service fee - what is this…
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Enquiries on house sale/purchase
Hi, is there ever an event where there are no enquiries raised on a property that is either being sold or purchased? Thanks
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Disaster recovery!
I recently made a massive mistake. I listened to too many people bad mouthing our rented home and rushed in to our FTB, now we both hate our home. We can easily save a deposit for another place in two years and have no credit card debts or loans. The only thing is that I'm certain we are going to lose all of the money that…
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Buying in-laws' house - advice
My wife gave birth to twins three months ago and we very quickly ran out of space in our home so we decided it was time to find somewhere larger. We have just accepted an offer on our property within a week of putting it on the market (sorry - not gloating - but might explain the thought process here!). Our plan is to move…
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Buying another house.
Hi all, I have a house that is worth approx £100,000, I have managed to pay off a total of £50,000 but have little other money. As a buy-to-let mortgage requires a 25% deposit, I was wondering whether I could somehow cash in approx £25,000 of this and then use it to get another mortgage for another £100,000 house with the…
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inherited house, housing association?
A close friend of mine lives in a local rented housing association house and has done for many years now, she is concerned now as she has inherited a house in London from a deseased relative and wonders if she has to declare this or not? Any help to pass on would be appreciated
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Cheapest place to get an EPC
Looking for some advice here - not necessarily where to get an EPC (although that would be great too!) but more how much I should expect to pay. I'm about to rent out my property, and had contacted HPASS about doing an EPC. Unfortunately we were the only order in the area that they had and as such it was going to take a…
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Will this be easy to resolve?
I've just raised this query with my solicitor but don't expect to get an answer until next week so I thought I'd post on here. I'm buying a house which used to have a garage in a block. I know the current owner sold this years a go and as such the garage does not form part of the sale. I received some paperwork from my…
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Tenants in Common - Order for Sale cost?
I am a Tenant in Common, along with ......., on the Deeds on my l....... property. I am in possession of a copy of the Land Registry's 'Official Copy of Register of Title' showing this fact, and the property is owned outright by us in equal shares. No-one lives at the property and I want my share of the equity out asap.…
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Insurance - advice please
Hello all! My huz and I are in the process of buying a flat at the moment (offer accepted, mortgage approved in principle, lender's valuation done, initial legal searches underway, etc...), and are using our estate agents' financial advisor/project manager type bloke to help guide us through the process, as we're first…
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Letting Agent having a moan
When I moved into my current home last spring the front and back gardens had a big weed problem, which was noted on the inventory. I had a baby 4 days after moving in and it's only been the past couple of months when, weather permitting, I have been able to crack on with sorting the gardens out. I had an agreement when I…
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Renting out your flat
Hopefully some kind soul and give me some advice. I bought my flat on a Santander 85% mortgage three years ago in March now. Not to go into detail but I bought the flat when I was engaged and expected to have two incomes to pay for living costs etc but the relationship broke down. Somehow I've managed to pay for it for the…
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Can I get mortgage if I have other debt?
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Email as sufficient notice to leave tenancy?
Hi! My Letting Agent requested (via a text message) our signed notice to leave (if thats the correct term) to be scanned and emailed to her by the 28th (which is the start date of our rental month). I managed to get it signed by all tenants (there are three of us now, but on the contract there were four, one moved out and…
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End of contract charges
Morning! (depending when you are reading this) I recently sold a flat which had a factor agent to sort out gardening etc. I had a lot of issues with them, not least them invalidating the NHBC cover but that's beside the point apart from highlighting they are a bunch of clowns. Now, as the property is sold, they have issued…
