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Damp
Hi, My first post... looking for some advice Had home buyers survey today and surveyor rang me this afternoon. I haven't seen sight of the homebuyers report yet. However the surveyor shared that there was some damp recorded (I assume on some sort of device!) but he couldn't see the full extent as the wall had been plaster…
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Problems with new build property, help needed!
Hi everyone We have purchased a new build property from Ben Bailey Homes at the Johnsons Wharf development in Stoke-on-Trent, and have been having loads of issues surrounding completion date. We put the deposit down in June, and at the time the sales team were ringing us almost every day asking if our previous house sale…
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Just want to clarify something about tenancy renewal
My 6 month tenancy is coming up for renewal and my letting agents are wanting to charge me £125 (the cheek) to do this. I've been looking up about what options I have in regards to this and the following points are what I've found: * I can choose not to pay the fee and when the tenancy ends, I will move onto a rolling…
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Sold house, concern I have that I hope won't cause an issue
So we sold our house a couple of weeks ago having been on market since beginning of year. Over the months I have made sure house is all in order in preparation of a sale. One concern I had were 2 hairline cracks in the render on front of house. They ran horizontal between first and second floor Windows. It's a town house…
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Steel framed house
My son is looking for a house in the South East on a limited budget - has been offered 107k with 10 percent deposit. This obviously severely limits his choice. He has seen a house which he loves - in what seems like a reasonable area, fantastic views and good sized rooms. Commute to his job is OK, and parking, though on…
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Freeholder demanding money for repairs.
Hi all I was wondering if you could help me. I own a flat in England in a house that has been converted into 2 flats. The person who owns the flat below is also the freeholder. She has a problem with her chimney it is letting water in to her flat, Our part of the chimney is fine and not letting water into our flat at all.…
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Help needed please
I'll try to keep this brief my wife and I have been left a 50% share is a small farm along with our nephew, the land is to be sold and the proceeds split 50/50, the problem is we would like to hold on to a small portion of the land as it marches a building site my wife and I own, and if this land is all sold the site…
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Land Registry... delays?
Hi, We was lucky enough to have completed on our purchase back on the 14th July and having chased my solicitor for outstanding paperwork he tells me that he is still waiting for our purchase to be registered with the land registry. Is it normal for this process to take in excess of 2 months?! Is there a way of chasing this…
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What to do when my house builder doesn't finish my house..?!?!
Hi I'm hoping to get some advice! I bought a house on a six-house development from a private developer 18 months ago and he's still not finished the development basically. Both as individual home-owners and as the registered company jointly responsible for the communal parking area, my neighbours and I have been on at him…
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Exchange of contracts sometime between now and the end of time
Hi, We're first time buyers purchasing a flat in London. The seller has owned the flat as an investment and is not purchasing another property. Therefore there's no chain. We have a sizeable deposit and had a mortgage agreed (subject to the usual conditions) before we made the offer. We had our offer accepted 15 WEEKS AGO…
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selling me his house cheaper than it is valued at??
hello everyone,i need some help with a potential house buy that is def out of the ordinary! i will try to make the explanation as simple as possible. My husband and i have been given the chance to buy a property that my daughter has been renting for the past year. The owner needs to sell and wants £85k for the property,he…
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Estate Agent False Advertising
Hi I'm looking for some advise on an Estate Agent who is falsely advertising a property as it's making me so mad!! The property is advertised as 2 bed property and has photo's of 2 large bedrooms with different furniture. When we went to visit the property we noticed that one of the bedrooms was tiny! Further investigating…
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Right to Rent Wales
I have a house in Wales that I am just about to rent out. Do I need to check the right to reside of a prospective tenant. I have another in Wales, currently tenanted and the agent looking after that one says I don't. I know the responsibility lies with me even if I have an agent and I would like to be sure. I do think…
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Selling dad's house now that he's in a care home
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for my questions, but here goes :) Dad moved into a care home 5 months ago following a fall, and me and my sister have power of attorney. We have recently had the family home (belonging to dad) valued and plan to sell it, to raise money for dad's care. He's self-funding. I have lots…
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How many viewing until you found the one?
Well we are still house hunting after looking at a property today and another last Friday both of which were very nice but both had problems so we could not go ahead with offers. The first had a badly leaking guttering which had caused internal damage and today I found the bedrooms were not really big enough. I suppose its…
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SLOW slow slow seller's solicitors & date of entry query
Hi all, Hoping for some advice. We had an offer verbally accepted on a flat (FTB) on 17th August. Between then and 16th September we had nothing from the seller solicitor bar the searches sent over (no written acceptance whatsoever). I have been hassling my poor solicitor several times a week to chase the seller solicitor…
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letting agent tries to blackmail to pay cleaning bills
Hello, we just moved out of our rented property (terraced two bedroom house) and handed the keys back on last day of our tenancy 4th September. When asking the estate agent (who did the inventory herself) how long it would take she said "oh at least a few hours". As I was under time pressure I did not attend the check-out…
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Electrical Safety Report
Is this a reasonable request? Buyer's solicitors have asked us to supply and pay for an Electrical Safety Report when one was carried out in 2007 when a new consumer board was fitted (that was all done properly and is recorded with the Council etc. Certificate issued) The solicitors say it was a while ago, all the…
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Surveyor missed leaking roof
Hello - I was hoping I could get some advice. I'm a new first time buyer and had a homebuyers survey for the property. We've been there two weeks and a sizeable leak has developed in the flat roof over the garage extension - with water coming in and making the timber swell. Our surveyor rated this roof as Condition 1 and…
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Mortgage provider require permission to let from Management Company
As a leaseholder, I need permission from my freeholder to let my flat. I am a director of the management company that holds the freehold (along with the 2 other flat owners in our converted house). The other flat owners are happy for me to let my property. Does anyone have a sample template I can use that will satisfy the…
