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Tenant wants garbage bins cleaned!
I am a LL and I have had a request from my letting agent. A new tenant has requested that I pay to have the three rubbish bins (garbage, recycling and green waste) for the house professionally cleaned at a cost to me of £30! Would you ask for this and more importantly would you expect your LL to pay for it?
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New build snag fixing - time off work - no compensation
Hi there, Bought a new build house 6 months ago. Have had lots of minor snags as expected. We keep having to take time off of work or be interrupted while working from home for them to fix it. Has come to the point where we are getting them to come in for a week to get everything outstanding done. As we have had this…
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House on the market 6 weeks so far
My property: a modern 2 bedroom terraced house, fixed price £109,995, in West Lothian, Scotland. My house has been on the market since 4th April this year. We had our only two viewers in the first 8 days of it being on the market. Another viewer was booked in for the week after the second viewer, but they didn't show up!…
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what to do? old house sell or rent? capital gains tax.
weve just moved out of our family home of 14 years and bought another house, by releasing money from our old house using a Let To Buy mortgage through Birmingham Midshires. here's our current setup: old house cost £35k now worth about £110k. my wife isn't on the land registry for this house as I bought it before we met. I…
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re-negotiating after survey
Hi, I wonder if someone can help. What is the best way of re-negotiating the sale price after your homebuyers and Evaluation survey have found various issues that need to be addressed. We are concerned, especially with the current housing market. Neither myself or my partner want to scare the vendor off. I was informed…
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Fraud of signature on guarantor agreement!! Help?!
i am real need of some expert advice please. My husband has recently found out that he has been put down as a guarantor which he has never excepted and also never signed. he signed a reference for the people who we know but refused to be a guarantor. they now owe rent on there old place and the estate agents are after the…
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Buying house from messy tenants!
We've finally had some good news, had an offer accepted on a property but the property has been rented for quite some time and the tenants have let it get into an absolute state. On a second inspection we saw a dead mouse and droppings and the house is absolutely filthy and full of crap! We are not happy to buy the house…
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Ex wants half of equity
Hi everyone, not sure I'm in the right place here so please point me elsewhere if you think I should be in another part of the forum... Me and my ex were only together 7 years and married 1. I added him to my mortgage but to be honest it was in negative equity when he left. We did a consent order which basically stated we…
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Dubious about unknown insurers/suppliers..
:) Looking around at insurers and utility suppliers, I think I need a bit of reassurance that the lesser heard providers are just as good as the well known ones, admiral, direct line, british gas etc Can anyone back this up?
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Breach of title - any ideas what this means?
Hi, we were hoping to exchange contracts this week but there are a few outstanding queries which are holding things up. One is a missing deed on our buyer's property so they have been asked to pay for an indemnity insurance. The other relates to the house we are buying. Our solicitor is querying a "breach of title" and the…
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Renting from seller?
Hello everyone, Due to extremely slow solicitors, particularly the vendor's, we are behind schedule in my flat purchase. The estate agent suggested the possibility of my renting it from the vendor (it was previously rented out and is vacant) and the vendor and I have agreed monies to be paid. This tenancy should only last…
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I would like to move out, but renting seems so expensive. Could someone lend advice?
I am 25 and I am still currently living at home. For several health reasons, I've been unemployed for the last few years and i'm now trying to get back into work. Anyway, I've been looking around online to see how much flats are in my area, but they just seem so expensive, well, to me anyway. I live in Essex and currently…
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TV wall mount when selling house
Should I leave the TV wall mount when selling? Removing it leaves 4 holes in the wall. The terms of the offer are below, it's (b) which has made me think of leaving it! The Property is sold with: (a) all heritable fittings and fixtures; (b) all items of whatever nature fixed or fitted to the Property the removal of which…
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boiler in rented house
boiler braking down every few days.landlord sends plummer out days after it is reported.i am so sick of having no hot water. can i get my own plummer in if i am willing to pay myself
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Mortgage and employment probation period
Hello! Seems like I'm at a transition point in life... Looking to buy our first place, and also change job. I'll most likely be moving to a company where I could negotiate not having a probationary period. Especially if I mention that I'm in the process of purchasing a house. (They're very accommodating!) Just wondering if…
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Buyer quandary... any thoughts?
So, happy position to be in, but I have a buyer quandary. Igot several good offers on my house earlier this week… did agree to a cash buyer forslightly under other offers, but preferred cash as I have two properties tosell, so simplifying one sale seemed preferable. Cash buyer has had secondthoughts, three other offers…
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Friend's Dodgy Landlord - Any Advice?
My friend was recently forced to move home into another of the landlord's properties with a notice period of 24 hours as she was only just told the house had been bought and the buyers were moving in! She currently has no tenancy agreement in place (no deposit either) and without this she cannot set the electricity meter…
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Do I have a case against this auctioneer?
I'm ******* furious. Went to view a property a few weeks ago that was up for auction. Auctioneer is waiting at the property for any viewers and tells me that there are squatters in the property so we can only see it from the outside, and anyway it isn't for sale in this auction and it's going to been withdrawn and put for…
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Letter from the Valuation Office - possibly increased council tax band
Hi, just thought I ask if any of you have had experiences with regards to the Valuation Office and Council tax bands? We moved to a new house (new to us, not a new build) at the beginning of the month and have now received a letter from the Valuation office stating that as the previous owner had made alterations to the…
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Lazy landlord for block of flats
Hi, I'm in the process of buying a leasehold flat - it's my first purchase. I had an offer accepted 3 months ago, but the process is being held up by the freeholder and manager (same person) who is not responding to queries. They sent some responses a month ago, but my solicitor says they were not detailed enough and he…
