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Selling Home help needed please
Hi thanks for reading my thread We have put our house in the market on feb 2015 and sold subject to contract to a first time buyer. We found a dream home and we put an offer on it and they accepted it. It has been nearley six months now we havent exchanged the contract yet. Our solicitor is acting like a dumb and listening…
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Ex refusing to sign deeds from sale 9 years ago
Hello, 9 years ago I thought I had a nice amicable split with my ex where I bought her out of the property with a settlement for the equity in the property. Off she went with her money that she was happy with and off I went in my own direction in life. It has just come to light now as I am selling the property that the…
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Entwistle green seller terms
Hi, thanks in advance for any replies. I am selling a house with entwistle green and have a quick question. The house had actually sold but i was told yesterday that the buyer pulled out at the last minute, so it is back on the market. But a family member has approached me saying they would buy it and is it possible to…
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Do I need to advise tenants of new home address?
Hi, I'm a landlord with long standing tenants in a property. I've just moved home. Do I need to advise tenants in case they want to write to me? My new home is in the same town. They have never written to me and they always communicate via text or email. I would also note that my old home was and still is my parent's home…
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Landlord wants me to split rent payments
Hi everyone I have a question I'd like some help with. My landlady has just asked me to split my rent payment between her and another man who apparently co-owns the flat with her, meaning I need to set up two direct debits, one in her name and one in his name. I was told this today after 12 years of living in this flat. It…
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Is this normal
I am in the process of buying a house. All the contracts have been signed and returned to my solicitor. My solicitor has now asked me to contact the seller to find a day for completion. Is this normal for me to have to sort this or should my solicitor be doing this for me? Any responses greatly appreciated
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Offer accepted then vendor decides not to sell?
I recently went through a bargaining process on a house that we really like but ended up in a bidding war. The vendors eventually accepted our final offer, and then 2 days later have decided that they are no longer selling? WHAT?? The EA doesn't seem to understand why either, as they say that the vendors are not providing…
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Asked to be guarantor
I am already 90% sure of my decision having been asked to act as a guarantor.... No. However, I still have some unanswered questions I'm hoping you guys can help me with. We currently own our home but its on the market. Does a guarantor have to be a home-owner which means we would shortly be rendered ineligible anyway? If…
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Moving and ERC
Our fixed mortgage with Santander is due to finish on the 24/11/15. It's about £3000 We have just gone up as sold on our house, and we are probably going to be completed before this time. It's frustrating as we are such a short time away from saving £3000. What I want to know is, has anyone ever successfully negotiated on…
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Not accepting the asking price.
I have had my house on the market for the past couple of months and although many people have been to see it, I have not had any offers. Due to a recent change in personal circumstances, I decided I do not want to sell and have gave the necessary 4 weeks notice to the EA to terminate the contract (over a week ago) However…
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Have you 'lodged' with your parents? How much did you pay?
Hello, Am seeking some advice but the info I can give is rather vague, so apologies in advance! Have any of you moved back into your parental house and paid them rent? If so, how much? Did it inclide bills? Did you do your own cooking? I assume you did your own washing (!) and certainly did a fair share of things like…
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Do we need these extra searches?
my solicitor has sent our client pack with some info about extra searches we can get and I am not sure if we need them. Any advice? One is environmental. The house is a new build on an old industrial area so I assume something may come of this but also that the house builder will have remediated the land properly. One is…
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Rented House and Boiler Problems
Hello MSEs, I am looking for your help and advice. Just over two years ago I moved in my current rented accommodation. Since moving in there has been a regular issue with the boiler in that it lost pressure on a daily basis. The LL was/is aware of this issue and we need to turn a valve to repressurise the boiler. While…
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London Estate Agency to avoid - CRESTONS
Statement relating to Crestons Estate Agency, Caledonian Road, London I am writing this statement to make people aware of my experience with Crestons. I am the landlord of a property in Kings Cross let and managed by Crestons. I have previously practiced for 10 years as a commercial property solicitor in London and for a…
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Offering Strategy + Purple Brick
Feels a bit weird making offers via a website, and it took me a while to find the comments about offers :o Up for 195K, been listed a week. Property often sells within a couple of weeks here, but that's not to say it goes for asking price that often. Offered 180K (in person), rejected. Offered 185K online, rejected, and…
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Ending tenancy
Hello there, So I'm currently renting with my girlfriend and we've just bought our first home, problem is our tenancy agreement doesn't end until November. Now we were told by Michael Poole a few months that the landlord was looking to move back in, so we thought we'd be fine... And of course now the landlord doesn't want…
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Breach of contract on Selling Property
Have you ever come across an issue between a Home Owner and Estate Agent, where the Home Owner investigated and found that the Estate Agent had stopped advertising the house after the first offer was made by an Interested Buyer (the buyer did not ask for the property to be taken of the market) but the Estate Agent had…
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Anyone used iammoving.com?
Hi there. Moving in about 4 weeks and wondered if anyone has used Iammoving.com to do address changes to utilities etc. It seems like a good option but wondering if I can be confident all my address changes will happen. Any feedback gratefully accepted :)
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Indemnity policy
We are now in week 14 since accepting an offer. We have been having a real nightmare with our solicitors and the buyers solicitors with them having the inability to communicate with each other It took my solicitors 4 weeks to send the answers to the pre contract questions to the buyer solicitor who then lost part of the…
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sale fallen through
Hello I'm due to exchange very soon but have just learned the seller has pulled out due to them being unable to proceed with their purchase (even though we were told they were not dependant on that for this to proceed) I have a mortgage offer in place due to expire next near in January (seems a long time but hey ho) I've…
