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Relocating from Northern Ireland to South East England - cheapest way to move
My Husband and I are moving from Northern Ireland to South East of England - can anyone please help with the cheapest way to move all our furniture/belongings over - we were thinking of a hire van but need to bring our own car over also - any advice/help would be great Thank you
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The Buying/Renting Dilemma
I'm a long time reader of the forums, first time poster! I would be very grateful for any advice anyone may have on the following. I realise it's quite a specific situation and there are several points I imagine I may have naively overlooked. That being said, I did work in financial services for a number of years so am…
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House overvalued
We are purchasing a house and using a mortgage broker. There is no chain, we are in rental and the property is empty. The mortgage company had a valuation at the start of September. We are finally getting to the offer stage now. It has been verbally agreed by the underwriter but today we have found out that the house has…
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Boiler broken - what can we do?
Hi all, could use some advice. Me and my partner moved into a 1bed flat about 3 weeks ago and already our boiler is broken. The property is fully managed by an estate agent, who have a section of their organisation specifically for property management who we call in situations like this. So we called over a week ago asking…
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Help!
Hi all Wonder if anyone can clear something up for me. We were buying a house and had our mortgage offer etc. The vendor pulled out on exchange day so we lost the house we were buying. We have just managed to find another property and had an offer accepted at the weekend. What I am asking is do we have to do through the…
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FTB- had full survey back, help.
So we had an offer accepted of 110k on a 2 bed semi in a decent area. The house directly opposite is on the market for 180k the difference being it has an unofficial bedroom in the loft, and the fact that our house needs completely renovating. When I say completely renovating, we did not realise the extent to which it did…
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Deeds plan incorrect - sale fell through
My friends bought their house newly built 45 years ago (leasehold), and the deeds were retained at that time by the mortgage provider. At that time, there was no requirement to register with Land Registry. They received the deeds a few years back once the mortgage was paid off, but never thought to look through them in…
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Making a "fake" asylum application to secure accomodation
Hi MSEers I appreciate that what follows my be politically incorrect, potentially offensive especially to the " taking offence on behalf of somebody else " communities. In which case, PLEASE ignore. I have no interest in getting into petty arguments about a few loose semantics or - horror - unfashionable opinions. Just…
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BTL hypothetical question
We have finally got some sort of financial stability and this has led me to consider investing in a btl property. I don't intend to become a fulltime landlord just a single place. I have a good friend who wants to move there and so would (with proper agreements, etc) make a good tenant. Would this be a problem with the…
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Moving Into Rented Home - Cleaner
I am moving into a a new rented house in a couple of weeks. Lets just say, the current tenants have a very different way of living. The house it's self was nice, but the tenants have left the place a dump, with dog poop all over the back garden. I'm just unsure if they are going to have the respect to get the house back to…
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Buying with intent to move
Hi there I am looking to purchase a property - a house for me and an elderly family member as I have prematurely sold last property and are staying with family as last purchase fell through. Need to move out of here asap. We are now thinking to move abroad in a couple of years time - need to think through and work out…
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Will My House Lose Value??
I currently live in a semi-detached house and next door is planning an extension which would adjoin my house creating a link. What impact would this have on the value of my property? Any help or advice greatly appreciated.
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Property deeds
These used to be made of paper, and had to be guarded carefully as your proof of ownership. Now that Land Registry has gone digital, do you still need the paper version?
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How do you find the optimum place to live?
How do you find the optimum place to live? Do you have merged house prices with areas of deprivation data to find out the optimum place to live within a particular price range. Produced in a map form? Do you have such a thing? I think it can be done with the National Statistics spreadsheet of rank data of areas of…
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How much to offer
Hi, I am thinking buying a house, I am yet to view it but have viewed the same style in the area so I know layout, size etc. and know I like it The asking price is offers over 139,000. The house was previously on the market at 149,000 but removed mid September, and just came back on yesterday with a difference estate…
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Knotweed on Council Owned Land
So we've found a property that we like very much and ticks quite a lot of our boxes and all was going well until the Agents pointed out that the adjoining land which is council owned has japanese knotweed present on it, it's like a little patch of waste land between the property and a layby. Although the Estate Agent said…
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Landlord requesting additional rent after agreeing to end tenancy
Hello everyone, First post here so please bare with me! I contacted my estate agents last month to ask if I could end the tenancy early. They confirmed and agreed to a "check out date" for last week. I cleaned the property, vacated and handed back the keys. Then I received an email asking for additional rent to be paid…
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Estate agents mortgage advisors
What are people views on the mortgage advisors every estate agent tries to get you to see? Alarm bells ring automatically for me but i dont know if im just being overly cautious.
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Electrical Wiring
hi all, I purchased my property 7 years ago, and my solicitor requested a electrical safety report from the vendors, I don't think I ever received one. fast forward today, I've just accepted an offer on my property on speaking to my new solicitor and filling in his questionnaire. I require a test certificate (PIR?) and…
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Deposit Issue
Hello everyone. I need a bit of advise on following: Recently i left property after 2 years and 5 months, on my last day i have asked my landlady to visit to make sure we are leaving in her property nice and clean and also i have sent her my leaving notice via email also mentioned in that email that if you have any…
