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Fair Rate Of Rent Increase?
Hello, My lodger moved in during mid 2009. I have not increased his rent since then. I am going to increase his rent in the new year, but do not know how to calculate how much the market has gone up by. According to Zoopla, the property value has increased by 40% since then, but I do not know whether or not rental yields…
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Estate agent's fees
I'm interested to know what fees estate agents charge for renting a property. Hopefully such information could help chances of negotiation and enable people to see who is ripping them off. The one who markets the property I'm looking at charges: £175 + VAT for admin £100 + VAT each for references I was told this morning…
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How to look best to a landlord?
I am trying to rent a flat with my wife, but neither of us work and I'm wondering how best to approach any application form. The situation: I'm a student and have £13,000 income next year (£8,000 student loans and £5,000 scholarship), and my wife has £10,000 income from a fully-owned rental property. That's a combined…
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Fair or unfair terms in Assured Shorthold Tenancy?
Is this clauses in my tenancyagreement (which I signed...) fair? First clause: "Not to damageor injure the Property and Contents or make any alteration or addition to it.Any redecoration is to be made only with the prior written consent of theLandlord or his Agent" Does it mean that I can't add afurniture, a bed for…
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To buy, rent or sell?
Hi, I would be greatly appreciative of any advice with regards to the following: My employer is about to move me to N. Wales. They have a very good removals package and will pay stamp duty, solicitors fees, removals, travel etc. I have an outstanding five-figure mortgage on my current property. I am also lucky enough to be…
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Am i being rational or am i just paranoid ?
Ok,hopefully this wont take long to explain: I am currently in a 2 bed flat with my partner and 2 year old son,We are in private rented accomodation (direct with LL so no LA) and on HB,we didnt pay a deposit to our current landlord and instead paid a months rent in advance,we are now wanting to move and have found…
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Buying our potential buyers house (part ex)
We have been on the market for 16mths with the odd viewing and a couple of weeks ago had a viewing from a family that had accepted an offer on their house and they loved our house... Unfortunately, the offer on theirs fell through the next day. I have noticed on right I've that on their house it says 'will consider part ex…
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Estate agent contract
Hi all My mum has been trying to sell her house for about 4 months was about to go multi agent and had sent email that she was. Then got an offer of 170k which she accepted. But other agent pestered her for some viewings which she did and now has an offer of 179k. My question is how binding is the original offer nothing…
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from personal house to buy to let...help please!
i am looking at moving from our current hosue and making this a buy to let i think this would be . we would have regular rentals as i have spoken to a company that is alwyas looking for our type of house. we would like to modernise it slightly for the rental and wonder what would be the easiest way of raising a little bit…
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Right forum?? Will I Need Planning Permission
Hopefully some kind person might have some ideas. I have a new home which is on a hill so that the garden runs steeply downhill. There is a small existing concrete balcony and then steps down to the garden (quite a lot of steps). I wanted to extend one side of the balcony with decking to make a useable space for eating…
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Can I get my HA to clean the property before I move in?
I'm to be moving into a bungalow in the next few weeks, one of the things I'm worried about is whether I'll be able to clean it sufficiently for moving in as I'm disabled and the previous tenant was a very heavy smoker and has left the place covered in a thick layer of yellow nicotine. The Housing Association say that they…
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Offer to sell lease extension, or wait?
I am the leaseholder of a flat in a house that's been converted into two flats. I also own the freehold for the whole house. The other flat's leasehold is owned by the local housing association and they rent it out privately. There are 64 years left on the leasehold of the other flat. I want to sell up and move out, and…
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Advice needed tenants leaving before end of tenancy
Hi I could do with some advice Have rented out my property to current tenants for just under two years now. They are on a statutory periodic tenancy and their rent date is 1st of the month. I received a text on the 8th from them saying they are moving out start of next month. I've pointed out to them as per their contract…
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Nine Weeks In and Find Out Restriction
We put an offer in nine weeks ago and it was accepted. The house sits on a piece of land and has an adjoining section of land that was purchased later (2008) by the seller. I found out early on that the additional land has a title restriction "cannot be sold without written permission" and then then names of two people -…
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Neighbours and kerb appeal.
Hoping/desperate to put my house up for sale next Spring - currently re-decorating -sprucing up- gardening etc. ....however .......... my new next door neighbour is a builder - on moving in he applied for planning permission to extend - I objected - it was refused and then dismissed on appeal -another very similar…
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rights of free holder / lease holder
Dear community, I own a ground floor flat that is in one of ten blocks of flats on a typical 1970's housing estate. There is a main public footpath that runs right through the middle of the housing estate along the rear of the houses and then our block of flats. All of the houses have femces up on the boundary of the…
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Any idea what connection this is ?
This is the cooker connection in our new property,can anyone tell me what connection type this is so that i can buy a cooker,i suspect its a "hardwire" connection but would like "expert" advice if possible,if not then "general" advice would be just as useful to me thanks in advance
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Letting agent withholding rent repayment
After a bit of advice - We moved out of our rented property back in May mid way through the month and were therefore owed back the outstanding rent for the days we weren't in the property (new tenants also moved in so they have had additional rent for the property). We've had excuses after excuses and to date we are STILL…
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Do we trust the estate agent
We are first time buyers and our first step was going to the bank (Halifax) to see how much we could lend. We came away with a mortgage promise and an offer that the bank would pay for our stamp duty. We have since found a house and had an offer excepted on it. We went into the estate agents yesterday morning and they…
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Finding out who owns land
I am trying to find out who owns a piece of land in our close, in between 2 blocks of garages. This is because at the end of the piece of land in between the garages the fence/wall is breaking and needs repairing. Various neighbours have mended it as best they can but its getting really bad now. The council have told me…
