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Sitting tenant, advice needed please!
Hi All Can anyone give advice on how to solve the following problem? My dad owns a small commercial property and has done for the past 20 years. Prior that is was owned by his mum. The property is used as a car repair garage and the guy that owns the business has been renting it for a long time, perhaps 25 years. The…
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BT pole on my property
Hello all, just after some help. On my property is a BT telegraph pole. Normally I wouldn't be bothered by the fact but annoyingly BT, for some reason, installed it on my driveway, at one side of the drive but it makes is a pain when getting the car on and off the driveway. I'm not sure how long the pole has been there but…
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Six months behind on Rent?
Hi my son is a guarantor for one of the family. He has found out the rent is 6 months behind, the flat was let by an agent, but the payments are sent monthly direct by internet banking to the landlord at the end of each month. The tenant hasn’t received any warnings and my son has heard nothing. The overdue amount is over…
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Need to obtain permission from NatWest to rent my house out
Hi Has anyone done this before? Is the process straightforward? Is there a cost? My house is currently sat empty (my ex and I both moved out) and it is currently on the market for sale but its only had one viewing (5 weeks ago) with no other interest since. I don't believe it's going to sell so I need a plan B because I'm…
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Home Insurance Help
In order to exchange we need to have buildings insurance on the house we intend to buy, however most only allow an house to remain unoccupied for up to 30 days. We want to take a few months to do it up properly (it was build in 2005 but needs work done to it - its fairly big and will take me a couple of months). Has anyone…
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Moving to Hertfordshire - advice
Hi All I will be moving to Hertfordshire this September and wondering if anyone can help recommend some nice towns/areas. Im returning to university, studying at University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield. Haven’t seen much of Hatfield, but what I have seen doesn’t look too good. So thinking of living in another area and…
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Our shared ownership trap
Hi, In 2008, prior to the market crash and at a point in time where we were both far too naive and trusting, my wife and I purchased a 25% share in a 2 bed shared ownership flat at £130,000 (so £32,500 for our part, paying rent on the remainder). The housing association we went with recommended a solicitors that would be…
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Section 21 Notice... but difficult to move out
Dear Forum; I have been living with my partner and my 2 children (now 2 and 5) in our current property for 5 years, to a private landlord. We have never been late with rent or been a nusiance in any way. Last week we were provided with a Section 21 (4) to vacate property in two months time, which was a little out of the…
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high agent fee
hello an estate agent asks "reference fee" of 250 pounds for a 400 pounds rented property is this reasonable? ofcourse they can charge whatever they want, but I suspect that this agent charges me so much because I wanted a discount how can I find out and request my rights as a consumer? thanks!
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Buying a house which is currently tennanted
Please can someone offer some advice on the following. I am currently house hunting and have arranged some viewings which the EA said they would have to contact the tenants to find a suitably time. When I queried that the property being tenanted may cause an issue the EA explained that the tenants would be long gone before…
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Homebuyers Report in...should I worry about...?
Hi, We are first time buyers who are buying a semi-detached house with a side extension with flat roof both built around 1930, and have just had the homebuyers report through. A lot of the report is graded 2 - adequate, which is to be expected on a house of this age, but there are several things graded at 3 which 'require…
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Dream House! Will we get it??
Hi! New member here stressing out, after some advice please! :eek: Me and my fiance have found our dream house (to rent) and have paid the tenant fees to the lettings agent. We now have an agonising wait to see if we can get the house. I will try to explain in full why its agonising, I apologise in advance as its long…
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Paying rental deposit
Hello! I was wondering if anyone could shed some light please? When paying a deposit for a rental property is there any "rule" as to when it needs to be paid? I was under the impression that it was paid along with the first months rent before collect the keys, however, the estate agent has asked that we pay the remaining…
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Shared Renting - Multiple Guarantors?
Daughter at Uni, Centre of London :( Three girls currently living together, they have had the enevitable falling out so two of them are looking to move to a new flat (my DD plus one of the other two). They have found somewhere and need a guarantor, this is where I get concerned.... Happy to guarantor my own daughter but…
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Letting Agent Dispute
I'm looking for some advice regarding a failure to serve our current tenant with notice to terminate the current tenancy agreement. Back in April 2013 I telephoned the letting agent managing the tenancy on our apartment to instruct the currrent tenant that we wanted to end the tenancy as we were moving back to the UK after…
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Cancelling an estate agent
Hi, my friend has just put his house up to let via an estate agent. I want to rent the property but I don't want to pay the estate agents fee's. Can my friend cancel the estate agent and privately rent it to me or will he have to pay a fee to do this? Thank you in advance for any help received on this.
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Help to Buy Scheme - Experiences
Hi, I'm a FTB and have been looking at a number of properties that advertise the Help to Buy scheme along side to help purchases. Just wondering that people's experience of the H2B scheme is - Does it complicate the mortgage application? Is it difficult to be accepted for the help? Any advice/guidance/experiences greatly…
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Neighbour's extension
Our neighbours are having a single storey extension built, almost the full width of the existing house. I have looked under the 'permitted development rights', and as far as I can see, the maximum height, to the eaves, is 3 metres. As it will have a flat roof, at what point to you class the eaves??
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Purchasing house and insurance
Might sound like a daft question but here goes: We're about to buy a house (FTB). Our mortgage broker has quoted us for home insurance but its about £10 p/m more than we've found online for a better quote. Obviously we're going to go back to him and ask him to see if he can get a better deal but were anticipating he will…
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Selling an empty house
Hi All, I'm looking for some advice on keeping the costs down while selling my house. As a bit of a background, I own the house with an ex-partner. I moved out 18 months ago to live with my now wife and stepson in an area close to the youngsters school. Luckily my sister was looking for a house at the time while she saved…
