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Negotiating rent
Hi, I listed my property to rent for £600 and have been overwhelmed with interest and am now wondering if I set it too low. Would it be really off to up the asking price now or to ask interested parties if they would be willing to pay more to secure it?
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Valuing chattels
How do you go about valuing carpets, curtains, curtain poles, blinds, and a satellite dish in a property transaction? HMRC considers all of these chattels but with a reasonable valuation put on them. On a 4-bed, 3 storey house, where the upper 2 floors are fully carpeted and curtains were originally expensive 8 years or so…
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Illegaly Subletting Landlord didn't pay back deposit and rent
I would like to ask your advice how I can get back my money from my last landlord. He was stupid and made a copy of his original contract for me because he was lazy to write a new one, and on the first page I can see that he rented it from a Charitable Housing Association, and he was not allowed to rent out the whole…
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License for Alterations - Are we being had?
My partner and I own a leasehold flat and we've decided that we'd like to make some alterations which include updating a window and extending the stairs to create a new level inside the flat. We've had quotes for both and they seem to be quite 'straightforward' alterations as we're not taking anything away and all works…
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Moving soon after fixed term ends
I am coming to the end of a Fixed Term Tenancy, and hoped to move to a new property at the end of it. However, I have struggled to find anything suitable in time, as everything suitable within budget in the area I am looking to move to has so many people applying that I have not been able to secure anything yet. Instead I…
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Do I need to gets Freeholders permission to rent out my leasehold flat?
I am currently living in a 1 bed flat which I leasehold and my mortgage is with Halifax. . There is a management company which deals with day to day issues. I am planning to upsize but wish to keep my original flat. Do I need permission off the Freeholder to rent out my flat? If so would there be any issues the Freeholder…
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No retention on mortgage
We have had our offer accepted for the house we like, and offer of the mortgage.. The bank have done there survey, and have come back and said there is a few things to look at concerning damp, I.e we need to have a damp survey. the survey says some remedial work to be carried out, but the mortgage offer doesn't ask to see…
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What is wrong with letting agents?
I've rented several times over the last few years and I seem to experience the same thing every time. I see a place and ring up. "Oh that on has gone" Yeh? So why are you still advertising it? The other practice that I claim they are guilty of is trying to obstruct you from seeing nicer properties and steering you towards…
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Letting Agency Not Refunding Holding Deposit After Changing The First Agreement
hi everyone, A friend of mine agreed to rent a property with a local letting agency, and paid them £600 holding deposit. The initial agreement was £285 a week and the start date was supposed to be 5th of Septembet. Both parties signed on the initial agreement. However few days later the agency called him to tell him that…
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Mortgage company legal team advice
Right, need a bit of advice. We're currently in the process of buying our new house. After several set backs, we finally got a mortgage offer last week. Now the company are saying that we must use one of their solicitors to carry on. We've already instructed a Conveyancer and he's already carried out the searches etc and…
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Advise needed Re: Full Structural survey....
So we have just had our full structural survey back. I knew it was going to be daunting and hard to understand, but boy does it go into detail. The obvious advise is speak to the solicitor and get some quotes. All that is in progress. However I thought I would ask you guy what you think The main gist is that for the…
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Your old house. Your new house.
I was just thinking about how a lot of us love looking on property websites at houses. I do it all the time. I also love how people get excited when moving and I was thinking maybe it would be nice to have a thread where people can share a link of their old house photos and a link with their new house photos. What do you…
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Chaps payment not received
Hi MSE members First post on this forum so not sure if this is the right place. I wanted to see if anyone had been in a similar situation and could share their experience. I am due to complete on a house today but it looks increasingly unlikely due to a CHAPS payment that has not reached the solicitors. The CHAPS payment…
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Undervalued property
Can anyone advise we put an offer on a property at 700k and the mortgage got accepted and then the valuation survey came back at 625k so things are a bit up in the air. It's not a small amount it's a big difference we love the house but don't want to over pay by such a huge amount. The seller refuses to reduce price. What…
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Mortgage Insurances - HELP
Hello everyone I completed on my very first home today..!!! I've already sorted out the building and contents insurance but I am completely lost when it comes to the other insurances. I want insurance to cover me if I lose my job/made redundant and if I get too poorly to work (I have a great sick pay policy at work where I…
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Housing organisation to take my house for fixed term whilst I am abroad.
Trying to find out about housing organisations who would take over my house for fixed term of years, find tenant, maintain property, and pay me some rent returning property to me in same condition at end of fixed term. Does any one know about this, Not looking for property agent. Live in North East of England.
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Advice needed re problem tenant
I'd appreciate any help or advice you could all give me. I appreciate ignorance is no defence and therefore I hold my hands up to having partially got myself into this situation but I'm doing everything I can in order to sort it out and I can only ask that any advice is constructive as I'm feeling pretty fragile over the…
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Bank has lost part of the deeds
Sorry, not much info to go on! Basically, parents have sold their house. It had no mortgage. They applied to get the deeds from the bank. Solicitor states basically the most important bit is missing (I think it's something to do with the lease hold, mum wasn't entirely sure) and it's now holding the sale up! Does anyone…
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Builder dispute over our boundary in wrong place
We recently sold part of our garden, with planning permission for a house which sits right up against the new boundary. However when we put the new boundary fence up we unintentionally put it up 4feet further away from our house than it should have been. The builder began his build starting from our fence and then got…
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Trying to buy - everything seems against us
We are trying to buy my brothers house and it just seems like everything is against us and we're never getting anywhere, on paper it should be easy, we're borrowing 1/3rd of what they will lend us, we are buying under market value and we have a 20% deposit... The house is a timber framed house, not too unsual up here in…
