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Can I take in my dad as Tennant?
This may sound a bit odd but.................. My father in law (75 years old) after suffering years of domestic abuse has finally had enough and left my mother in law some time ago. My wife and I took my father in law in and he has been living with us for the last 2 years. Based on his age, fragility and lack of world…
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Leasehold Concerns
Hello forum, Bought a flat in London in 2004, leasehold. I still own it. It's a flat conversion, part of a big old Victorian house. I'm in dispute at the moment with the property management company (who take a service charge/ground rent from me each year) over some maintenance aspects of the building. In order to clarify…
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Survey result concerns...
Hi all, My partner and I had an offer accepted on our first house a couple of weeks ago. We had a homebuyers report done yesterday by e.surv chartered surveyors. I've had the results back today and I'm concerned about the amount of issues they've flagged. The report was pretty detailed, 30 pages long - but the overview of…
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FTB: London
Hi all, I'm looking to buy with my partner and this will be our first home. Currently looking at places that is within a 40-50mins commute to Liverpool Street Station. We have been looking out towards Chelmsford in Essex and new builds are going for around £320k for a 2 bed flat. It seems that including travel costs, it…
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Agency won't give us 12 months anymore
So it's renewal time again but our agency have apparently stopped doing 12 month contracts. We have always had a 12 month contract (apart from when we first moved in) and after 3 years it's easier for us to do it this way. I suspect they just want to make £50 out of us every 6 months but they're blaming it on 'keeping up…
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Selling House with Broken Items
Hi, Our house should be going on the market soon and there are a few things which we've never got round to doing/fixing. The shower head attachment leaks and only gives out cold water, the bathroom sink sometimes leaks, the heater in the kitchen no longer works etc. If i have the time and money to fix it before i complete…
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How can I afford a property where I live?
I live in a room and work for 24k a year in Reading. If I work my !!!! off I can earn about 30k a year with overtime. There are some new one bedroom flats on the market, with a price of 250k! They are only small and have a lounge kitchen together. How is someone like me supposed to afford a small property? On my basic wage…
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First time buyer - timing writing a will
I'm grateful if anyone is able to offer any advice. I am a first time buyer purchasing a flat with my partner as tenants in common. I know I will need to write a will. I plan to use the Which? online service as suggested in an article on this website. I am just wondering if a will has to specify the exact property you own…
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Conveyancing and fees...
Hi folks, My wife and I are currently selling our home and appointed a conveyancer for both the buying of the new house and sale of our current house, and pre paid up front (£180 for the buy and £180 for the sell, so a total of £360), as they require you to do. Then upon reserving our new build house we were asked by the…
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LL increased rent without following procedure
Hi, I am currently going through the process of being evicted from my property with my children as the landlord wants re-possession of the house, I do not have any rent arrears. Around 3 years ago my landlady increased my rent and she did this by calling me on the phone and advising me I needed to start paying the…
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Renting up North - Your experiences?
Hi. I'm looking to rent privately, but am having issues with failing the tenant credit checks (see previous thread here). I'm thinking of moving up North, where the prices are slightly cheaper and the rules for renting seem somewhat more lax (ie housing benefit are welcome on some properties). I'm also self-employed, and…
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deposit scheme data protection breach?
hi, this is an odd one but i was after advice, obviously, on a strange matter of data protection. we lived in a property a few years back and then left and had our deposit returned via the DPS as is the norm. 4 years later(yesterday), the estate agent we were with back then accidentally registered a brand new deposit for…
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Furnished or unfurnished?
Hi everyone, My partner and I used to live in a furnished 1-bed flat, but are currently living in a room in a shared house because I'm doing a 6 month internship. Once this finishes, we plan to move out into a flat again, somewhere in London. We're fairly flexible on the area, but we're not sure whether it's wiser to find…
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S21 old notice
Does anyone have the government form for the old S21? I don't want the new one as the tenancy started before 1 Oct 2015. Many thanks in advance.
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Unregistered abandoned road
Hi fellow forum members - Really after opinions/advice on this one - all welcome! :) I am interested in acquiring/appropriating a piece of unregistered land. This piece once formed part of the main road through town before a housing estate was built and the entire road layout was changed - it now forms a thin strip of…
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Freeholder not playing ball on garden transfer..
Long story short - my neighbours that back on to our leasehold property asked to buy some of my garden land from me - around 10% of an 85ft garden. I agreed and we came to a price, my mortgage lender assessed the area in question and deemed it not to have any negative effect on the property value. When neighbours…
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buy-to-let, first time buyer, stamp duty, scotland
Hi there, I am trying to find out exactly in what cases the new stampduty surcharge applies in Scotland, particular for buy-to-let properties. I currently have no/have never had property and will be moving around for some years, therefore i would like to buy a property to rent out and do something with my deposit. I will…
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Mortgage offer- change property?
We got our mortgage offer through this week from Nationwide, but the house sale has fallen through. (No planning permission/buildings control for extension and doesn't meet regulations, vendor won't pay for the necessary work). Does anyone know if we can keep the mortgage but change the property when we find a new one (and…
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Coventry - Areas to buy
I was wondering if anyone could help. I am looking to buy with my husband and we are unsure of the areas in coventry. Is there anyone that can help with areas within Coventry that are nice places to live? I heard Wyken is nice but only parts of it, would anyone be able to suggest which parts are nice as we have viewings…
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Negotiation advice
So, we may have found a house that we like and could be in a position to offer on it before it comes to market. It is in the same road as this other one (http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-58005080.html) I posted about a while ago, but is in nowhere near the same condition. It has been rented out for 8…
