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Confused about the address of the flat
Hi guys, since you have been so helpful, was hoping you could help me with another query. I've just bought a ground floor flat and it's address is supposed to be 162A (I won't reveal the full address for obvious reasons). This is what's on the title. There are 2 flats in the building and I believe the 1st floor flat is…
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Share of freehold maintenance
hello, We have had an offer accepted for a share of freehold at the top floors (second and loft conversion) of a Victorian house in London. The survey showed that the the fabric of the building has not been adequately maintained which resulted in deterioration to timber joinery, ironwork and the surface water drainage. The…
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Heating emergency cover
Daughter now has a house, and a screwdriver+hammer, but not much else in the way of tools or knowledge on how to use them. As she has two lodgers, she needs gas heating+flu inspecting plus emergency cover. Neither Centrica (trading British Gas) or HomeServe have great reputations, so what are the other choices? She's in…
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Cheap Conveyancing Recomendations Please?
Hi All We have sold our house and already well under way with a local solicitor. We were planning to rent as we were relocating counties and wanted to assess the area, however we have now found a house and offered! I have asked my current solicitor for a quote and it is quite high. I have googled all the available 'cheap'…
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Hard standing ground wanted (commersal use)
Hi everyone In the next couple of years we are looking at renting a haulage yard for parking up about 100 lorries. so that would be about 4.5 acres We don't need warehousing or A garage just hard standing ground but an indoor building would be an advantage as we can supply our own porter cabins. This need to be close to A…
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Offer received for house
Afternoon, Right, I have received an offer for my house this morning. I put it on the market for £129500 but me and my partner had agreed that we would be happy to accept £125k minimum. The couple who viewed it on Saturday are cash buyers and are wanting to buy it as an investment to rent out with the long term view of it…
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Section 21 - Where do we stand.?
We moved into our rental property in April 2013 on a reduced rent in exchange for painting & decorating the property. It was agreed that we would have a 2 year short hold tenancy. In April this year the LL failed to provide us with a new tenancy agreement & so our current one ran on a month by month basis. On July 31st we…
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Am I being too pushy with solicitor?
Hi everyone, We had our mortgage offer through from Halifax on 4th September and instructed our solicitor on Monday 7th and paid the upfront fees for searches to commence. We are buying my fiance's parents house and as they already have bought another property outright and we are FTB's, there is no chain. I sent my…
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Info on Guarantors
Hey, we are currently renting a property in Milton Keynes, and wish to move to another location in Milton Keynes. I am currently a Masters student, while my partner has two jobs, both pay by the hour. For our current location, we used a guarantor. A place we were interested in moving to, is in the same area and has the…
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Buying an underpinned house - who guarantee's it?
We've placed an offer on a house that's perfect really, and when we made the offer we were then told the house was underpinned in 2012 and we were provided with a solicitors letter, certificate of the work, and the schedule or work done. I've read through the documents, and it's made out to the people who owned the…
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Need buildings insurance but not sure about subsidence
While getting quotes for buildings insurance for a house we are buying, questions about subsidence or evidence of subsidence are asked. But since we didn't have a survey there's no professional opinion on the matter, so what should we say when getting quotes for insurance as it makes a huge difference in the premium (3x)?…
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Deed of Rectification on leasehold flat
We are trying to sell our leasehold flat but have encountered problems with a mistake on our lease regarding the ownership of a communal pathway. It appears to belong to a neighbouring flat. Our buyers will only agree to exchange if we get a Deed of Rectification. To get this written we need consent from our freeholder and…
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About to exchange but niggling doubts over other offers
Due to exchange on a property we won in a 'final offers' scenario but there remains a concern over whether the other offers were all genuine, and whether we've overpaid as the property went for well over the asking price. There's no way of finding out really. It probably won't make any difference now but what would you do?
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Help! ex-landlord, early termination, gas leak/bill
Hi all, this is my first post and I'm not sure how it all really works but I do know I've subscribed to MSE for a long while and have always found it useful. Anyway, my problem is complex and is making me feel sick to the stomach trying to figure it all out. :( I lived in privately owned flat which was organised by local…
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Buying a restricted property
I need advive !! We am currently buying our first home. After all the checks and soliciter bills we have paid hoping to get our completion date we are now told that the morgage lender wont lend us the money!! Gutted :( The reason being that the property is an ex council house. The seller brought the house 7 years ago and…
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second viewing - checking property prior to exchange
Hi everyone - firstly many thanks for advice and knowledge from previous posts. I have learnt plenty. Things are thankfully going fairly smooth so far. Have now received all the papers back from the sellers' solicitors, and I'd like to make a second viewing prior to exchange. The property is a leasehold flat and has a good…
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Tenancy Renewal Question
My tenant wishes to renew for another 12 months. Do I have to issue another AT5?
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help to write a deed of trust or similar
hi myself and my partner are buying our first house together and my partner is the one who has put all the deposit down on the property but we will be paying into the mortgage equally. looking to write something up ourselves instead of paying loads to solicitor. any ideas on where to start and how to word the document it…
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House buying stage detective needed...
We are being evicted by our landlord on the 1st Oct, so I'm really concerned about dates :eek: This is the situation as I understand it. Mortgage accepted so we are at the conveyancing stage. We received today an Environmental Search report, radon gas etc. From this latest development I presume a few things (that might be…
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Need your help/advice in calculating new tax changes pls
Hi guys, thank you for a great forum. I've got a sick feeling that we are about to jump onto the landlord band wagon at the worst time possible.....I have a disability and find it somewhat hard to understand the tax changes that are about to be implemented and hope someone can help me with our situation. Here is our…
