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Persimmon contractor – vandalism of property
Copy of part of a letter we will be sending to the Managing Director and Divisional Chief Executive at Persimmon House next week – Dear Persimmon, We are absolutely sick of these problems. It has come to a point where we have now had to call the police to report one of Persimmon's contractors for vandalism, destruction of…
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How detailed should the inventory be...
Had an inventory company round at the tail end of last week to produce inventory for property thats being rented from tomorrow onwards... Guy arrived almost an hour late claiming he couldnt find property listed on google. spent 2 hours detailing inventory and promised me as landlord a copy to approve yesterday.... There…
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PropertyHeads.com - what do you think?
Hi guys. What do people think of the new PropertyHeads.com website? Looks like it's still very much a work in progress but I like the idea. It's a social network dedicated to property. A kind of Facebook, meets Rightmove, meets RatedPeople. The thing I like is that it gives potential buyers (and the whole propertyheads…
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Estate Agent Misrepresentation
Had reason to put my home on the market earlier this year. Of the agents who came to value and state their terms, I chose the one who had recently sold another flat in my building. I was told they had achieved a price of 120K. During the term of their agency I had reason to be unhappy about one aspect of their marketing…
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Ending tenancy, returning keys to another tenant...
Good morning. We are now ending our tenancy and neither the letting agency nor landlord are available to hand keys back to. Our landlord has instead asked us (by email) to hand the keys to the tenants in his other house across the road. I'm slightly concerned as to our liabilities in case keys go missing or the property is…
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Feeling guilty!
Your views and constructive comments most appreciated. OH and I viewed a house (H1) about 6 weeks ago which was on the market for 300. We liked it because it had everything we were looking for. The house is owned by a lovely old couple (must be 70+ yr old). She told me that they were selling to go into sheltered…
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Mortgage Protection Plan
Hello :) Looking for a little advice please... I am a FTB and have recently had an offer accepted and my mortgage approved by Nationwide. My mortgage advisor has now said that he will prepare a mortgage protection plan and email it out to me. I am still awaiting this. So I am wondering, is this what most people do? Do you…
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newbuy in 2014?
Morning all Just after some thoughts and advice. So OH and I have been weighing up our options recently about buying our own place. We have a largish deposit and have looked at a few houses in the area. We were looking at the newbuy scheme that is currently running but as there are no new builds in the area where we want…
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Proof of insurance on leasehold property
I'm in the middle of buying a leasehold flat. My conveyancer is asking for proof of buildings insurance for the property so they know it is insured before I move in. As it's leasehold, buildings insurance is already taken care of by the landlord as part of the service charge. Does anyone know who I should ask to get hold…
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School Catchment areas
Found a house we really like. Ticks all the boxes for location except 1 big one.... The area has 3 primary schools, 1 is outstanding, 1 satisfactory, 1 in special measures. The house is literally 1 street into the catchment for the poor one. The outstanding one is equal distance. Last year their intake was 25 and they had…
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Rental Issues - Invasion of privacy
We are in a rental property next door to our landlord. When we took the tenancy we were believed that everything from the gate of the house we rent was for our use alone, including the garage and forecourt that comes with the house. However, this has not been the case and our personal space has been continually invaded…
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Title deed inquiry
Many years ago I helped my uncle and aunt clear an outstanding mortgage debt on their home and do some significant updating when they retired. By helped I mean that I gave them the money to do it. To protect my interests they arranged for a Deed to be drawn up to make the property tenants in common and giving me a third…
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Don't understand our boiler! :-(
Hi all, We've just moved into our first home :-) but are having some confusion with our boiler... we have found an online manual but it has only added to our confusion! It's a combination boiler - now I understood that these heat the water on demand as you turn on the hot tap. If that's the case how come it has a setting…
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Council House Purchase Discount Query
My sister currently lives in a council property and has been a tenant for 9 years, I am aware she will get 35% plus 1% for every additional year she has been there after 5 years, so this will be a total of 39% discount under the right to buy. She is planning to move in 18 months and I am thinking of moving in with her and…
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Month's rent retained
I've just re-let my house to a couple who have lived abroad. It's gone really well. :) The agent (not me!) asked them to pay 6 months in advance because they had no UK credit record. That was no problem so OK. Trouble is the agent has now retained 1 month's rent from what the tenant paid in case any bills crop up in the…
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Buying freehold
Two properties that I am looking at have an indication that it might be possible to buy in one case the freehold for the whole building (consisting of 2 purpose built Victorian maisonettes) and in the other (a new conversion of a large Victorian house) that there might be a share of freehold on offer. Obviously there can…
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Anyone had any experiences with Reeds Rains?
My fiancee and I are looking at a property listed by Reeds Rains. I was wondering if anyone has had any experiences with them and if you know of any of the "small print" or any of the clauses, such as the buyout clause. Thanks in advance.
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end of tenancy and deductions from deposit
Hello, I have moved houses a couple of weeks ago and the landlord proposes deductions from the deposit which I am not sure about: - I spilled some nail varnish remover on my sofa (which is dark brown) and the agency marked it as a red paint mark. They said it may need to be cleaned professionally and I would have to pay…
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Deciding which area to live in
Have been googling away as to how people decided which area to live in and only come up with American websites..no British ones at all. So, I've sat down and made a very conscious decision about what sort of area to live in would suit me personally and then gone and visited there and decided I was correct and am buying a…
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looking to buy other share of house
brother and i have probate on parents old house 50% each , he would like to sell his share to me and i would like to buy , no mortgage involved , price agreed. is this something we would need to involve solicitors with and what would be the likely cost or could it be sort between our ourselves , if so which forms would be…
