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Heated Towel Rails? Im not paying for that!!
I apologise in advance if this is long and poorly typed (My small toddler has removed half the keyboard keys and hidden them Grrr) My ex-landlord has served me with court papers stating that i owe £5000 for repairs to my previous property. After asking for an itemised bill for these repairs they sent me a list (summarised…
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Buying house with work required
Been round in circles with the house we are buying. Waited a month to find out about a problem with the floor and have it confirmed. Floor needs £10k of work doing to it. We put forward 3 offers. 1) they have floor done between completion and exchange and they then bare the risk of further work required etc 2) we reduce…
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help with a very hishonest landloard
I am in commercial lease with a landlord who is very dishonest and keeps trying to cone me out of money by over claiming expenses and keeps forcing me to do improvement on his property even though the lease states I only need to maintain the cosmetic appearance inside the property. I am extremely stressed about dealing…
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Landlord's obligation re hot water?
Hi, asking on behalf of my sister. Their boiler has been leaking for a short while and a man has just come out to see it's knackered, needs replacing, with no ETA for replacement, and that due to the leaking actually leaking on electrics they can't use it (so no hot water etc). Now, my parents who also live there are 60+…
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Complicated ending of our tenancy...
Ok so we moved into our current rental property almost 11 months ago. It's a standard type of house with a normal tenancy and only the 4 members of my family live in it. Now for various reasons we wish to move out after our year is up.. Reasons are: 1) We want to move somewhere more rural 2) We want somewhere cheaper (have…
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Advice please for new landlord
Please could anyone offer advise please as I don't know anyone personally who I could get advice from. I have a residential house to rent with a Buy To Let mortgage. I'd like to know the following: * Is there anything specific that I need to do with the deposit? * Where do I obtain a contract template from? * Do I need to…
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No communication after offer
Hi all, Apologies, reposting as I put on the wrong board! :rotfl: This is my first time posting and first time house buying too so please excuse my ignorance! We made an offer on a property in Yorkshire on Monday (the bank holiday) and I still haven't heard anything. When I placed the offer the EA told me that they would…
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Unpaid Rent, tenant is not taking phone call anymore.
Hi Guys I got a flat in City centre to rent. one guy moved in at the end of 2011 and due to the late payment of rent, i gave the notice to him to move out. we signed 1 year contract, and he moved out finally at Sep 2012, with about 5 months rental unpaid. and he promised to make payment this March (i know it's May now).…
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Adapted housing list for disabled tenant
Hi My partner and I are looking to move in together, he is disabled and in a wheelchair so we need an adapted property. I have 3 kids and currently live in a 3 bed private rented house. I have been looking for housing associations that specialise in adapted houses/bunglaows. Does anyone know of any? Many thanks
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How can they distinguish between historic and current movement?
When we bought our Victorian house our survey highlighted some historic movement, it was classed as a C on our survey. Now we are selling their surveyor has also noted this but given it an A grading and our buyers want to have this looked into by a structural engineer. Now I am pretty confident that the building hasn't…
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Tenant Complaining of Bed Bugs 4 months after moving in
Hi, my husband and I let out our house beginning of January. 3 weeks ago, the tenant complained of waking up in bites. She wasn't sure if it was bed bugs as none of the symptoms of blood on sheets were present. She things there are bugs hiding in the furniture. We lived at the house for 8 years prior and didn't have any…
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Transferring the name on house deeds.
Hi can anyone offer any advice on this, my husband and I want to change the name on our house deeds into just my name I have heard you can do this without a solicitor to cut down on cost but don't know who would be an acceptable witness for the land registry paperwork. There is no longer any loans or mortgage on the…
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Selling to rent back
Hi, Does anyone have any info about selling a property to rent it back, need some advice on this and who is the most reliable. Thanks.
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just want to share my tale so far about house selling and buying
hi everyone! just want to share my experience and speak to people that are going through the same thing as me at the moment. We are selling and buying. Here is our time frame so far: 27th March - EPC and Floorplan done 2nd April - Photos taken of house 3rd April - House showing on estate agents website + rightmove etc 5th…
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Letting agents - is this common practice?
We are looking into moving into a larger property (renting). We viewed a house last Saturday. At the time of the viewing the letting agent informed us that someone had viewed the house prior to us and was putting through an application. She said we could still view the house and put in an application as well and both…
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Shocking Credit Report
I applied for mortgage back in first week of april but i had not got my credit report. I just got my pin from experian and logged in to find that I had two reports that I could download 1 was on the day I applied my mortgage and one today What is shocking is that on that particular day when I applied for my mortgage my…
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MSE News: House prices still rising, Halifax says
"House prices are continuing to rise, with prices increasing by 1.1% last month, says Halifax..." Read the full story: House prices still rising, Halifax says This thread is not in the 'discuss house prices and economy board' as that is only open to those logged into the forum so anyone coming from the news story may not…
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Delays in completion
We are first time buyers. We put an offer in for a house that was going to auction. The offer was accepted but we had to pay an auction fee to EA as they said it was sold under auction conditions. Which meant we had to complete within 28 days. Everything from our side was done. We signed our paperwork and lodged all the…
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Online contract
Can anyone help, my partner and I have recently moved in together and we will be paying the same amount for the mortgage but the mortgage will remain in his name, however we both want to secure our finances. We have come to an agreement that should we go our separate ways before we have children then he will give me back…
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Mmmm ! landlords to become imigration officers
Listening to the news this morning It seems we are going to become immigration officers if proposals that are to be put forward for legislation come to pass. As a private landlord I always check passport and country of origin and take a copy ,most of the time it is easy as most people are from within the EU, even non EU…
