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Selling House: Electrical certificate?
We are in the process of moving house and the buyer's surveyor noted that the circuit breaker box had a recommended next inspection sticker dated 22/7/2013. The house was a new build 10 years ago and there has been no electrical modifications of any kind. Am I under any obligation to have this checked? My father-in-law is…
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Return of deposit?
Hi All, I was hoping someone may be able to help as previous advice from the board has been really helpful. The situation: It is now 10 working days since we checked out of our property and we still haven't heard from the landlady re: our deposit. Foxtons have sent her a reminder but she has not responded. The deposit is…
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Timber Framed Houses
Survey came back saying house I intend to buy is a timber framed one (10 years old). Is there anything I should be concerned about? A relative mentioned design life of 60 years but from what I can see masonry houses have the same design life.
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Eviction help
Hi im in the process of evicting a tenant, s21 has been served. They have constantly ignored my phone calls and when i go to the property. They've answered the call on some occasions and kept saying yes i will tidy the house and give the keys(kept delaying leaving). They have also stop paying me rent now for 3 months . i…
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Question about ending tenancy.
Hi, Hoping for a view on this. I currently have an AST agreement on the house I have been living in for 5 years. The first 2 years were a fixed term and since then it has become periodic. We are currently in the process of buying and went to check my notice period the other day and it says this "It is hereby agreed and…
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Part exchange - is it ever a good idea?
We are really struggling to sell our house in a rural part of Scotland - house has been on the market three months with zero viewings. But we've moved to England for work. Would part exchange even be possible for us? There is a new build development going up in the village we want to live in that looks like it could be…
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Damp!
Ha an offer accepted and passed a mortgage offer from HSBC but they have just called me to say that the survey has shown damp. I had suspected this as we saw a patch on the inside and outside so had called him and told him of my concerns. Also we paid for the higher level report. His advice is that we get a report from a…
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Management fee for land that is not shared
I am looking at a new build property It is a freehold property, but as part of the sale i have asked to pay in to an agreement where i pay a management company to maintain a 'shared' area. This is an area to the rear or my property, which is used to access my garage and parking space. The problem is that it only accesses…
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right of way
Some advice please. Like a lot of the old houses in my village, it was divided into two dwellings at some time. Lets call them cottage A and cottage B. I own cottage B. They front onto the street and the only access to the back gardens is along a passage down the side of cottage A. To get to the back door of cottage B…
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Inconsistencies in Lease, help!!!
Hi I'm currently looking into some extending the lease on my property and have a few inconsistencies/mistakes in my lease. The freeholder on my copy of the lease is not the person who i pay ground rent to. If the freeholder had changed, shouldnt this have been highligted when i purchased the property? Also, the lease…
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I don't think I can make exchange of contracts deadline!!
Okay, so we're buying a repossessed property with a 28 day exchange. This ended last Wednesday. Our valuation, mortgage and searches have been approved. I called the solicitor today and he wanted us to post the signed deeds today (which we' e done) in hopes to exchange tomorrow, apparently, this is the deadline the sellers…
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How long before I start getting some viewings?!
Hi :) My house has been up for sale for a month now. We started off with our own sign but got no interest so we are now with an estate agent. Pictures went up last week (Friday) and have still got no interest. House was valued at £153,000-157,000 and decided to put it on at £154,950. It's a detached 3 bed property -well…
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Return of deposits
I moved out of my student house at the end of june (contract ended on 30/06/13). We signed the end of tenancy agreement form, which states that the deposit will be returned within 6 weeks of the end date of the tenancy. According to the MSE page on renting, deposits should be returned within 10 days, so I can request…
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rental checkout
Just done our checkout with and agent and they have said they will pay deposit (less any deductions) on saturday and ring us the following monday with the figure! We wasnt asked to sign anything on checkout, should we have? Also because they are paying the deposit on saturday before telling us the amount, what happens if…
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Why will nobody give us a time scale??
Me and DH are first time buyers and have put an offer in on a house. When we put the offer in we made it very clear we wanted it to be as quick as possible. We are expecting a baby on the 22nd of sept but she could come sooner or later. We have sorted out our solicitors and mortgage and when we spoke to both the solicitors…
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House Buying Nightmare
Hello all.. this is my first ever post on this (or any!) forum, so apologies in advance if I'm doing it wrong. Apologies also for it's lengthy nature... I've just come out of ten months of sheer house-buying hell, during which I read many related forums on here with much interest. Actually, I read them to the point of…
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Best way to approach an exchange date
hi all i touched on this yesterday in another thread but now have a clearer head and a better idea of things ok iam buy a house and my seller is buying a bungalow with no forward chain - its just me and her and the vendor of the bungalow - or three different solicitors. i have had all searches etc done on my purchase and…
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Buying house advice - not sure if next door is flat or house with tennants?
Hi I'm not sure if this will seem an odd question but I'm in the process of buying a house, its a semi detached and when I spoke to the owners of the house I'm buying they suggested an old man lived next door however was walking past the house and noticed that it has a sign for "ground floor flat" and have now discovered…
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Deposit return
I'm a student that just finished renting a property last month and we've held an inventory check with the landlord's parents due to him being away at the moment. As I talked with the lady alone while the husband did the checks, she remarked how clean the property was and how much better it looked compared to the previous…
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Huge utility bill, faulty thermostat?
Hi all, My bf and I are about to move out of our current (1bed) flat and have received a closing bill from N-Power for the last 4 months of £1889, which seems like an awful lot! We've previously paid £93 p/m by DD at their suggestion. We live at the top of a terrace, with 3 studio flats below us. I do not think two of the…
