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email from letting agency re our dirty house!!!
Hi all, I am after some advise... i received the rudest email yesterday from the letting agents regarding our house... long story short, the put the rent up (without telling us) we disagreed with it, then got served two months notice. we are now doing viewings. Both my husband and I work full time. I received an email…
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House Question Eviction
Hi Everyone, My Friend and I have both invested in a rental property for 3 months now, but our tenants are terrible. theres a family of 4, they have broken various rules of the agreement, causing nuisance and totally tipping my house. I have now decided with my friend to evict them asap. i want to give them a section8…
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Gas safety certificate help please!
We are renting a house at the moment (a six month tenancy after we sold our old house and couldn't find another to buy at the time). Our tenancy is due to end shortly but we are really unhappy with the agency that we rent it through. The house has no gas safety certificate for the gas fire in the lounge (although it has…
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Homebuyer Report is back and panicking - help!
More 3s than I expected but on re-reading they mostly seem to be warning and back-covering (probably to be expected on most houses in the area I'm looking at - Chesterfield) rather than current serious problems. Here are the highlights if anyone could sanity check my thoughts please ... 3s Paving at back of house too close…
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House being valued today
I have 2 estate agents coming to value the house today. One has a local office in our village and the other doesn't but they are selling the house we hopefully will buy if its still for sale when we sell ours. Any advice on what to ask them or in how to choose who to go with? Also is here anything I should do other than…
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Prevent foreclosure, Georgia
I need help!!! I am about to get my house foreclosed on and am looking for any information/loopholes on how to prevent this from happening?? Where can I go, what can I do?
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Estate agent 'forcing' us to use their solicitors
Hello We're looking to buy - had an offer accepted, but the agent told us that the vendor would only go ahead with the sale if we agreed to use the agent's recommended solicitors. They mentioned this is because the vendor wants a quick sale and would rather not have any problems during conveyancing. Today I spoke to them…
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How important is a garden when you are renting
Hi A bit of a survey really. We are looking at purchasing a BTL property, we are in the SE and looking to buy a one bedroom house with good access to the airports (we are local to Heathrow) and links into London .....what I would like to know is...some of the one bedroom starter homes have no back garden and some do....how…
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Suspected subsidence, survey and insurance issues
Hi, I am in the process of buying a property. I am suspicious there might be subsidence. The property is a dorma bungalow about 50 years old and is not on clay as far as I know. The dilema I have is that I'm not sure whether to go with the basic mortgage valuation report or with the Homebuyers report. I keep getting told…
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New builds - haggling for extras
Hi Folks, Quick question (any help would be greatly appreciated!). If I were to reserve a new build at asking price, would it be possible to still haggle for extras etc before any contracts were signed and exchanged? The new builds I'm looking at appear to be decent value (turnkey) and the estate agents don't seem to think…
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Is NewBuy actually any good for buyers?
This must be yet another NewBuy scheme question so I apologise in advance if it's already been discussed. The government announced the NewBuy scheme just as we were seriously looking at properties and I've been wondering whether the scheme is worth it for someone like myself. I started doing some maths on the possible…
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Landlord took too much out of my deposit / added things to the list of costs
Hi there, I hope this is the right place on the forum for this, but if not then please direct me elsewhere. Basically I have recently moved out of a flat and have been awaiting the return of my deposit. There were numerous charges added to this and most of them are completely accurate, except they've added 4 things to the…
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Legal Charge Query- selling flat
Hi I've looked through the forum and apologise if this thread or one similar is around but I couldn't find anything recent. 4.5 years ago I got into some financial difficulty due to redundancy and had arrears on my mortgage (Northern Rock). There was a loan element on the mortgage of approx £10,000.00 that was the part in…
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Buyer wants to see under floor, who should pay for it?
Hi, First time seller and poster in this forum. My buyer wants to see what underneath the floor because buyer suspected dry rot (based on the survey, whoever did the survey said damp could have dry rot) This is not possible because the floor is concrete, but I can't say for sure because I've never seen it. I stomped all…
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Help!!! Buying property - expensive body jet shower missing before exchange.
I wonder if anyone can give me some information please. I'm buying this property and it is about to exchange (finally, fingers crossed) and one of the features in the beautiful bathroom was a fitted in the wall "Jet Body Shower". I got a phone call from the vendor telling me he slipped in the shower and grabbed hold of the…
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Buying a house - questions to ask
Hello guys, Looking to buy my first home. We've found a couple of good properties, but not sure what to ask about the properties. One of the properties looks like it has a newer kitchen and bathroom, but the electrics - or at least the consumer unit(?) looks old, but I have no idea what an old one really looks like! Also,…
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Purchasing freehold - do I need a solicitor?
DH is selling his house in a few months time and we are buying the freehold. We have had a letter from the landlord's solicitors with all the freehold info and they are asking for our solicitors in order to proceed with the purchase. I am just wondering if we have to have a solicitor or whether we can just accept the…
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Estate agency contract
Bit of a hurried reply needed,we signed a contract with a Internet based sole selling rights,was at the house last Tuesday 9th ,we signed the 16 week tied contract,our mortgage figures were not what we thought so we can't sell ,do we have a cooling of period for the contract Thank you
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Capital Gains & Rental Tax Advice
Hi Would be grateful for any advice on the following: I bought a house in May 1999 and moved out in Aug 2011. It was my main residence but I've rented it out since moving. The property is probably worth £80,000 more than when I bought it. Is it true I have 3 years to sell the house after moving out or it is liable for…
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Surveyor recommendation - Merseyside
Hi all, Anyone got a recommendation for a surveyor in the merseyside area? Mortgage lender has quoted £1000 for a full survey plus valuation which seems a bit steep to me (although I will end up having to pay their valuation fee of £300 anyway). Any advice appreciated! Thanks.
