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Conveyancing recommendations?
Hi, I am in the process of selling and eventually buying a new house. Can anyone recommend any good and cheap conveyancing solicitors? Thanks
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DPS - Reasonable timescales for releasing deposit?
Hello. The deposit for my old place is held by the DPS (Deposit Protection Scheme). There was a few issues with how I left the place (apparently) so I went back and had to replace a light bulb and sort a little blue mark on one of the doors (from where the crappy paintjob the LL had done had flaked off) Anyway... I put a…
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Faulty water tank, who's responsible for excess water bill?
I'm currently renting and moving out this week, almost as if the flat knows this things have been going wrong for the last two weeks! My main concern is an issue with the ball !!!! in the cold water tank failing, I first noticed water pouring out of the overflow two weeks ago so turned the stop !!!! off and rang the…
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Taking out mortgage to keep father in house
Hi, I know the issue of buying into parents' home has been answered many times on here, but every situation is different and I'm looking for a little advice on mine: My parents separated a number of years ago but are only just going through divorce proceedings. Essentially, my mother wants her half of the family's…
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Land registry address change
The property that I am purchasing is located near an area with a bad rep and I found out from the land registry title that the name of this area is in the official address details. Is it possible to change this, or will it be stuck forever?
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Service Notice to Landlord via Website??
Back in March the cold water tap in the bathroom stopped working. I called the LA twice and nothing happened. The LA has a "fixit" section of their website to request repairs, which we did. We then received an email with a copy of our request and saying they will contact the landlord and should hear back the same day. Fast…
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Land Registry Restrictive Covenant question
We are thinking of converting our garage, so I have accessed our title deeds on the Land Registry site. It states 'The Transfer to the proprietor contains a covenant to observe and perform the covenants referred to in the Charges Register and of indemnity in respect thereof.' However in the Charges Register section it…
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How bad would a survey have to be for you to withdraw an offer?
Hi, I've tried searching on the forums and on the net about this but not sure I've found enough information to make up my mind so would appreciate the community's thoughts on this one! Put in an offer for a flat that seemed very good value and we were aware during the viewing that this was because the place needed some…
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Advice sought RE - problematic neighbours, looking for an amicable solution
Hi all, Looking for some advice. Went to see neighbours (who rent above us ours is a GF maisonette which we are FTB's of) in January asking them to keep the noise down after 10 in the bedroom as the ceiling isn't exactly thick (being a 1930's build :D )in a polite manner and asked how Christmas was. Alas the noise got…
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Credit reports for Rental Agency
Me and my partner are renting together for the first time, and have just found a property that we would like to move into. The agency is one I have rented from before but they have told us that some practices have changed since some new legislation means they cannot charge a fee to set everything up. Instead we must…
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Selling my half... agreeing how much...
Hey guys, Some of you may already know from previous posts that I have a mortgage on a house with my mate, of which I have now decided to move on, so he will be buying me out in the next few weeks. Its now come to talking money, finding out how much he will be giving me. I'd like to throw some figures out to you, if see…
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Should LA re-reference tenants?
Hi all, I am about to rent out a cottage I have lovingly renovated for the past year. The cottage is next door to my own home so I am going to do the management (brother is a builder, other brother is an electrician, know just about every trade in the locale so don't want to pay out money for nothing), but I have got a LA…
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i've got a bad feeling....
Hi all, My boyfriend and I are due to be moving into a rental property this weekend. We have signed the tenancy agreement and paid the deposit. We went back to the flat last week to have one last viewing and to take measurements for furniture etc and noticed that one of the bedroom windows is cracked on the inside (the…
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Council bidding
How long did it take you to receive your property? If you are yet to receive your property how long have you been bidding? This was fairly successful for me from a housing association. Your Bid Position 26/116 As I understand it the properties from my council aren't first come first serve even with this result I didn't get…
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Exchange procedure
For anyone who has been following my journey, I'm now nearly at the point of exchange ( :eek: ) and wondering what happens: A friend of mine said that they received phonecalls from their solicitor every few hours during exchange to update them. I was under the impression that a phonecall was made and that was that? Can…
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Disinstructing my estate agent, fees?
Hi, Ok so I instructed my estate agent 9 weeks ago and this is what has happened since... It took 7 phone calls and 4 weeks to get a For Sale sign. I have had one viewing, who made an offer but was still selling her house, then after being hassled for the next two weeks by our estate agent she withdrew her offer as they…
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Stop paying rent and moving out query
Hello, I was wondering if anyone can advise on this or has had any experience with the following 'worst case scenario' situation. A few weeks ago I moved into a new flat and found some problems that following week. After complaining about it to the real estate agent I found out that he has given me incorrect and incomplete…
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Would a downstairs loo/bathroom put you off buying a house?
Well, as per the title really. I'm in guardrum... we've been looking for a house to buy and saw a perfect, refurbished cottage at the weekend. Perfect, except that the toilet and bahthroom were downstairs - meaning that if you want to use the toilet during the night, you'd have to go down the stairs, through the kitchen...…
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Solicitor exchanged before mortgage valuation back
I wonder if someone might be able to help me. I've exchanged on my current property with no problems. Last Friday, my solicitor said we were ready to exchange on my NEW property, which is then what happened. However, this morning I've heard from my bank manager who says that the mortgage valuation survey has only come back…
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Part ex our old house, for a new build - Really confuzzled with process.....
Help! Feels like I'm chained to a never ending waltzer........I want to get off, I'm dizzy enough now.. OK so here is the easy bit (for me): -We (me and my partner) currently own a house (we owe 51k on the Sandanter mortgage, locked in until May 2015 @ 3.29%) -We have deposited £100 against a new build house (worth 135k)…
