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Advice needed on home buyers report
We are in the process of buying a house in south west London and have had an offer accepted and mortgage sorted etc. We arranged for an independent home buyers report for the property especially since we are FTB and the house is about 80 years (1930's) old. The survey took place today and they gave me a call to briefly…
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Professional Carpet Cleaning - Deposit Scheme ADR Result
Hi all, I have just received the decision of the adjudicator in a dispute between my former landlord and myself over professional carpet cleaning and thought the result may help other who search in the future for this kind of issue. The landlord argued that the carpet present in the house (2 rooms) was professionally…
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Deposit deductions
I've recently moved out of a rented house after living there since the beginning of 2015. On the check in inventory I noted down that the vertical blinds had broken beadings in the living room and one of the bedrooms. Nothing was ever done and there were various conversations over the years about different things which…
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Driveway guy wants land for Pony?
Our neighbour has stuck verbal deal to sell a piece of land for 5 times its market value to a guy (who knocks on peoples doors to do work on your driveway) so he can put his pony on it? This guy has also asked if the land has services on it ie: electricity water etc. Our neighbour has said that is aware that this guy is…
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Land registry: is this normal?
Hi, I have been living in an appartment for a few months and am starting to get suspicious of the landlord's right to rent. He keeps receiving a lot of letters from banks, insurances, HMRC which I find strange. So I bought the Land Registry and there are 2 things I find strange: 1) In the "registered owner" section at the…
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Land registry issues
Hi all, just wanted to see if anyone had a similar experience. We are in the process of trying to buy a shared ownership property, the issue is we are delayed in exchanging contracts as the title for the property is still in the name of the developers and not the housing association that is selling it. They have an…
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ex buying me out of a property
My ex and I own a house in joint names which has no mortgage on it. She is going to get a small mortgage to buy me out of the house and for it to be in her name. What will I need in terms of solcitors? Someone has said I will just need to get a solicitor to witness me signing one of the transfer forms for the land…
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Renewed tenancy direct with landlord- need advice
Hi Iv trawled the internet and forum but am struggling to find an answer to my query We moved into a rented property back in 2015 and signed a 6 month tenancy via a letting agent with the landlord managing the property directly. The agents sorted the deposit protection and the agreement included us paying a £75 ‘moving out…
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FTB Scotland - Seller may pull out on sale
Hello, After a little bit of advice/experiences if possible. We are FTB and have had an offer accepted on a property. We have everything in place with regards to our mortgage and solicitor going through all his side of the legalities. The one thing that is holding is up is our Forces Help to Buy Application (lost the first…
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Shared vehicular access within legal boundary with covenant
We have happily lived in our property for 7 years - great neighbours no problems. We have new neighbours who have been causing issues with parking since they moved in, made worse in recent weeks by their builders - we have been patient and only disturbed them to move vehicles blocking our drive when we had no alternative.…
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Advice - CML Report Difficult House Builder?
Currently in the process of buying a David Wilson Home. We were given a top spec kitchen upgrade when reserving, we picked out our options but really despised the door knobs on the units (trivial, I know). We were told we categorically could not change the doorknobs or switch them, I went on social media and saw another…
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FTB. Do I wait for Vendors? Advice pls.
So we are first time buyers. Had an offer accepted on a property a few weeks ago. At the same time , the vendors had an offer accepted on an empty property so just us and them in the chain which is good news. We had had our lender valuation done and recieved our mortgage offer. As we are new to this I asked the estate…
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Advice - planning permission/ enforcement - what can you do when council will not act?
Looking for urgent advice for a ex-neighbour (Dave) who moved to a different area a few years ago who has been being given the runaround by a planning department for nearly two years now regarding illegal tree felling and a neighbours planning permission application. If passed this permission will result in a large…
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RentitRight a tax on landords?
One of the family was moaning about being taxed on a flat he and his wife let out. It's an ok park of London near a station and the small block of 6 flats can only be rented out to people that work, initially. It's a building management/freeholder (Covenant i think its called) demand that they think works well. About the…
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offset mortgage interest when buying a house
Hi, Firstly just to say 'thanks' for a variety of advice from a variety of people in my ongoing process of buying a house - it has been invaluable. Thanks especially DavidMCN who seems to have a sensible answer for every question I have! So, I'm due to complete on 17th December on house sale and purchase. I have an…
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Different deeds to my neighbour
We bought our house last year and were aware that on our deeds it said that our neighbours had access through our land as our deeds say "The right to enter on to the Roadway for the purpose of turning". They were in fact using our entrance to come in and park their car even though they have a parking space on the other…
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Help challenging freeholder section 20 charges
Hi all, - Charged 55.5k for works estimated at 20k I bought a one-bed flat in July 2016. Just before buying I discovered a section 20 notice had been issued the previous November. In the forms the freeholder signed, he estimated my share of the costs to be £20,000. I negotiated a £15k discount with the sellers and bought…
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Do I need a timber survey based on this report?
Hi everyone, We are buying a converted Edwardian flat, it's been built around 1900, our survey report says: "A representative sample of timber has been inspected and the possibility of concealed defects being present to inaccessible timbers cannot entirely be ruled out. There was no sign of any significant rot or decay to…
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Moving house, removals and cancelation waver
Hi I'm in the precarious position of having to exchange and complete either same day or a day apart on my home and a house I'm buying. There's no leeway on the dates so I'm either doing it this way or not at all. I am going to have to book a removals company without having exchanged so I'm keen to find out if there is such…
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Access to land - installing a gate
Hi, Just wondering where we stand in terms of creating access to an otherwise "land locked" field with no other type of access. We are considering buying a couple of acres of land from our farmer neighbour. The only way to access the land would be by installing a gate from our share private driveway. There is a gap in the…
