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Find It Settings, Bury, Lancs - Anyone with experience of them?
Had terrible problems with my rental property- has anyone had experiences of Find It Lettings, Starting Fresh residential and/ or Paul Mainwaring.
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Oric Property Services, Wigan - anyone used?
Been bitted a few times with my rental property. Has anyone used this company and/ or Christopher Pagett. http://www.oricservices.co.uk
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Looking to rent for the first time, Will i need a guarantor
Hello I am currently living in a house with two friends being letted to me by a work colleague. I am planning on leaving as soon as possible because ive figured that living with friends and their bad habits can be tiresome.. I have had a mixed credit past with a history of pay-day loans and a few mobile phone contracts i…
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Estate agent rant!
Sorry just need to have a rant. I accepted an offer on my property in early November and found one to buy the same month. I paid for a survey, got my mortgage offer and started legal work on my purchase. In the meantime my solicitor started raising concern at the lack of response from our buyers solicitor. I chased it up…
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I am looking to sell my house, what certificate if any do I need as well?
I had a shop and I used to live above it, I closed the shop part down in 2001 and converted the whole building into a house. I have not got any competition certificate from the council either I had the kitchen upstairs but I now taken it downstairs. All the electrical work and central heating was done in 2001. Do I need…
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Southwark council Warm, Dry and Safe policy on their housing stock, any experiences??
Southwark council, a London Borough in South London currently manages 55,000 homes. Currently the council has a warm, dry and safe policy, which is part of the wider social housing policy of upgrading the housing stock. I wanted to ask if any tenants from the council have experienced these improvements???
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Bridging loan? or something else?
This really is a leap of faith, full of a number of pitfalls i`m aware of (let alone the ones i`m not). So, we are thinking of taking on a family members home that is in a nigh on derelict condition. We will put our property though an auction hoping to get about 20k from the sale (equity) for a quick turn around. The…
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What readdress is there under these rental circumstances?
A relative booked a serviced apartment studio in a block of 30 similar units all rented by a large company with several blocks across London. Although, she asked to do a viewing beforehand (on more than one occasion) she was told that all units were occupied and it wasn't possible. She was then told that there is a waiting…
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FTB- how often should I be in touch with EA?
Hi all I'm a FTB buying through a co-ownership (shared ownership) scheme in NI. I had an offer accepted on a property on 7th Jan, and had my application into the Co-Ownership office in person on the 9th (had all bank statements, payslips etc ready to go) I have to wait until I get the offer from them for their 50%, before…
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Bought property, big mistake :( any words of wisdom?
Hi there! Have been driving myself mad regretting our purchase as first time buyers so thought to vent some stress I'd turn to the lovely people on here to see if you can offer any similar experiences/words of wisdom or words of advice. Myself and partner have been living in London for 6 years since finishing uni and have…
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Contract exchange time
Is there any specific time recorded for contract exchange? So if I have to take building insurance, chancel repair insurance etc do I take that before or after the contract exchange takes place?
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Garden extension
Hi, I have a 3 bed house in North London, and an extension of 3 meters done 30 years ago and used as a dining room. I am planning to extend it for further 3 meters under permitted development, and maybe use it as a big dining room, or as an additional bedroom. So my question is: 1-Does additional space add value ? who can…
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Moving in this week, what to expect.....?
Hi there, Me and my fiancee have just purchased our first house. We're due to move in this week, so i have a few questions if you dont mind.... When will our first mortgage payment come out? When will we start paying bills - water/gas/elec? The current occupiers use SKY for TV, is it just a case of me ringing SKY and…
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How to find how much land we own
Hello, I wanted to know how much land we own. I've got the land registry document infront of me, but it only shows how much we own highlighted. there are no numbers ie size. There is a public walkway on the right of the property, and wanted to see how much of that we can go into. Only reason is because the house behind us…
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First time buyer, got some questions
Im about to make an offer on my first home (a nice small semi, garden, parking etc.) on the market for £100,000 and I've just got some quick questions.... For a start the house is listed as a guide price of £100,000. So what's the deal with guide prices and does that give me a bit of flexibility with my offer. Secondly I…
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Scottish Government to get rid of stamp duty
"John Swinney is set to make a U-turn on his controversial stamp duty raid on middle class Scots moving home." http://www.sundaypost.com/news-views/politics/holyrood/cheers-for-middle-class-movers-as-stamp-duty-tax-rethink-touted-1.793756
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Remortage to buy second home
In need of a bit of advise / point in the right direction... I currently own a home with my mother which over the years has risen a considerable amount in value, so now have a healthy amount of equity. I now have a young family myself and now looking at buying a home with my partner. What is the best way to release equity…
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Rx3 form - urgent help needed
My dad died in November 2014 and mum in January 2015. They owned their house as tenants in common. Now we would like to remove restriction from the deeds using rx3 form. I am really struggling with this form for a few days now. There is no examples how to fill it in online. I am not sure what we need to write in box 8.6…
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Freeholder responsibilities
Hi We need to get pointing done on our property and we are the freeholders for ours and the flat above. Do we need to do the other flats pointing as well as ours as a freeholder? Is the leaseholder required to split the costs with us as freeholders for arranging and carrying out the work? Or is this completely our…
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help, freeholder demanding money without invoices
I am selling my flat in London and as part of the sale have asked the managing agents for any outstanding amount on my service charge account to finalise the sale. Out of the blue, they have reinstated an historical claim for arrears from before 2005 from another firm of managing agents who previously managed the flats for…
