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Poll how many sent in a elctrican and plumber to check before commiting?
After your survey came back how many then sent in a electrician and plumber or both to try and fully cover themselves against any major issues in these areas?
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no building regulations - indminty insurance who pays?
Hi everyone, If there is no building regulations whos respoisblity is it to buy the indemnity insurance the seller or the buyer? Many Thanks
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Air Conditioning Next Door
I've just been to view a property. There is an fairly large metal unit that says 'LG" on the side of the house next door, on the rear extension that is next to the garage of the house I viewed. The EA thought it may be air conditioning. Does anyone have any experience of this, e.g. how noisy are the outside units of air…
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Letting Agent now charging VAT
I am letting a property through a Letting Agent and this months invoice from them has had VAT charged on top of my usual fees. I am assuming this is because they have now hit the VAT threshold, but I had no notice of this. I have been hit with extra costs I was not expecting. Can they do this without any notice? Thanks in…
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Land Transaction Return Bill?
Hi All Can anyone help me understand this letter from HMRC. We have bought a new house around 2 months ago and today received a letter in the post to say that my partner owes £380 as HMRC have just received our Land Transaction Return and the tax liability is £380. I have no idea what this is and was not informed of any…
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Cost of a new roof?
So I'm buying a house in West Yorkshire and the roof only has at the most 10 years left in it, I'm going to have to replace it. How much am I going to be looking at for this? It has two velux windows in it.
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Damp issue & impact of works - my rights?
Hi there, A few weeks ago, I gave my landlord notice that we'll be moving. My lease is a bit unusual in the sense that my landlord wanted me to renew it for another 3 years but due to our uncertain circumstances, I agreed to do so with a clause that I could end it at any time provided I gave 4 months notice. Last year, I…
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Pay Reservation fee without Reservation Agreement?
Hello Forum My offer for a new house under construction has been accepted, but the developer (a small local company) now wants I pay a reservation fee ( £ 3000) on her bank account; I will receive a payment receipt from her solicitor as soon as the money arrives she said. My solicitors says I need a reservation agreement…
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HMO and council tax
I let a flat to two sharers , the council advised me to give them two separate agreements as I was not sure what to do and didn't want to end up liable for bills. The tenancy agreement is for the flat itself and gives no exclusive use to any part, so I have not allocated bedrooms or anything, it's up to them how they live…
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Ending an assured tenancy in social housing.
I have just found somewhere else to live after several problems with my housing association and the area I live in. I am planning to move in two weeks on 5th April 2015. Now I pay rent weekly but the tenancy says I have to give a months notice. I am an assured tenant but I thought notice goes on whatever your rent period…
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Unilateral Notice - what to do? Please help!
Hi all, I hope someone can advise me what should I do. I have purchased property (mortgage) in September 2007. Everything went well, search from the solicitor came with no highlights and no reasons why I would not buy the property so I have proceeded and bank paid 90% of the value of the property to the seller with…
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Property prices rediculous.....
We had our bungalow valued in Feb 14 just for interest, and had 3 EA's round who all valued it at between £235 and £240k. A year later we have had 4 EA's round today, as we are now ready to place on market. We had chatted previously hoped it would have gone up to about £265-£270k. Unbelievably, the first EA valued it at…
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Letting Agents not keeping to agreement
We've been in our rented apartment for nearly a month now and there is still furniture here that should have been removed. Our signed tenancy agreement states it was to be removed before we moved in. I've contacted the agents multiple times and basically they're being super cheap, trying to get charities to collect the…
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Lenderors valuer and seperate survey question
Hi Would the normal be to get the lenders valuer to go in first wait for the report and then send in the full structural guy which is separate/private from the lenders ? is this what people do with private full structural surveys? Applgoies for that terrible spelling in the title
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Neighbour Boundary Gate and Ownership Dispute
Hi Hope you can give me your thoughts and advice on a neighbourly dispute over ownership of a boundary gate that opens on to our land? My neighbour is a former land agent as is obsessed with ownership of his land. He owns a straight drive from the main road to our residential home and a 4 acre paddock that we own. We have…
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Landlords 'Special Clauses' in contract
hi, upon moving in i signed my tenancy contract, I have noticed a few issues and would like some advice please as i feel as though my landlord will try to take as much as he can from my protected deposit. here are the few points that have came to my attention - all carpets to be professionally cleaned by a member of the…
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Good places to live near birmingham/west midlands
Hello, I am starting work in Birmingham in the coming months and wanted to initially live in Walsall but after reading some reviews about walsall I am not really sure, what is WS2 like? I grew up in a rough part of London next to an estate and don't really fancy ending up in a similar area again. I don't mind travelling 20…
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ISSUE: Bank valuation
In process of buying a house and things have not necessarily been done in the right order Already had our homebuyer rosier, negotiated a final priceand solicitor is already involved doing searches etc before the bank sent their valuer out just to satisfy their lending requirements However, their valuation came back as £0…
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Lack of Building Regulations Consent Indemnity - unsure what for!
Hi I am currently in the process of buying a property built in 2004 and bought by the current owner in 2011. We're close to exchanging but the vendor has included in his paperwork to the solicitor a CLI Lack of Building Regulations Consent Indemnity policy. He has no recollection of what this was for when he was asked to…
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selling our house to son for 50%of its value
We are considering selling our house to our son for 50% of value & living in our house rent free instead of going for equity the house value is only £70'000 any advice would be welcome .
