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Deed of Rectification - Wrong floor listed as a note
Hi there I hope you can help. I am selling my apartment purchased 4 1/2 years ago, and on the Title Deed there is a note beneath the deed saying that the Apartment is on the 6th floor, when it is in fact on the 7th floor. The original TR1 form I signed just had the Apartment number on, and no reference to the floor. The…
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Using equity from rental property to buy 2nd home
Hello, I currently own a home, but due to work commitments had to re-locate and take up a rental property. I've been looking to see if I can use any of the equity in my home (which I currently have a tenant in), to buy a property where I have moved to, as well as keep the rental house. My currently provider doesn't allow…
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Q for student landlords
If you let houses to students, when is it typical in a year to sign up the next year (academic) of contracts/students? I have tenants in place currently who I think may want to carry on in September (contract goes until end of August currently). I know the first-year students often start looking for houses in early spring,…
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Buyers buyer threatening to pull out
Ahhh what a nightmare! This should be so simple as we are in a short chain. our buyers buyer is a first time buyer and is renting a property. We are awaiting to move into an empty property. Everything was going smoothly, surveys done, searches done and our solicitors are just awaiting a few answers to some queries on the…
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can i have a lodger if my friend whos on the mortgage is living there
looking to first time buy with a friend 50/50. she would live there but i would like to rent my room out to a lodger. can i have a lodger as she occupies the property or would all the lodger payments etc need to go through her?
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Ground floor first floor of top floor
Hi I have ground floor and there is someone interested swapping In top floor 13th the only reason I want the swap it has one extra double bedroom And bigger leaving room. Is there any advantages and Disadvantage top floor
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lodger's right to leave at the end of fixed term.
My Spanish colleague is on an exchange program and has rented a room from agent. He lives together with his landlord (who is the property owner), landlord usually works away during weekdays and only returns home weekends. He has a 3 month fixed term agreement due to end on 28/Jan. Today he realised the agreement has a…
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Protecting deposit when adding my partner to the mortage
Hello, I bought my first home around 12 months ago. The house is in my name only and I am currently living in it with my girlfriend of 5 years. I worked hard and saved for a while and managed to put down around 40 thousand for a deposit. My girlfriend is terrible with money, lives in her overdraft and didn't have a penny…
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Stamp duty advice
Hi all, sorry if this isn't in the right place I couldn't find anything relevant from the search bar. So I currently have a property which I rent out, i am in the forces and we only lived in the house for 12 months before work meant we couldn't occupy it. We then rented it out until now. We are looking at buying another…
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Urgent Advice if anyone still up ....
Hi My 18 yr old son just returned to his purpose built flat after being away for christmas, to find the bathroom from the flat above has a water leak and water is coming through his ceiling and dripping on his floor. He has sent me a photo, it doesn't look like its been dripping for more than a few hours. He has knocked on…
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New build bartering
Hi everyone... We are looking to sign for a new build with persimmon over the weekend and wondered if anyone had any tips for us newbies with not much clue about this kind of thing. We've read about them chucking in incentives for free such as flooring and paying stamp duty etc but how do we ensure we get the most we can…
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Land Registry no title registered on home
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Right to buy refused
Put in to buy the council house received a letter saying it’s been refused and contacted the fraud officer as stated on the letter. Been informed due to a housing benefit over payment which wasn’t our fault by the way our right to buy is refused.We can reapply once the over payment as been repaid. Anyone advise if this is…
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buying second home
I own my 3 bed home without any mortgage but I have a permanent job which means I work away from home during the week. I have a Monday to Friday lodger in my home and I rent a room in a house myself Monday to Friday. I'm wondering if I can unlock the value of my house to get a mortgage to buy a studio flat? Don't want to…
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How easy is it for my dad to pass his share of the house to me?
Long story short my dad wants to give me his 50% share of the house that he owns with my mum but is leaving me to sort it. How easy is this? Is it a simple solicitor appointment? I have no idea about anything to do with this sort of thing. I'm guessing it will be expensive.
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New build sale question
I bought a new build 3 bed semi in September 2017. The estate was very new and is still being built with a lot of building still to happen. New build properties on my estate exactly the same as mine are being sold for £15k more now than I paid and have been for a number of months. Bearing that in mind, would I be likely to…
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Electricity meter access
We have recently bought some land which we are now living on. Originally, the land formed part of a bigger site which was then divided into three and sold off. The problem we have is our electric meter is in the neighborurs part of land and he will not allow us access (travelers). The electric company (Npower) want £9,000…
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What is the difference between a lodger and a tenant?
Last year I went travelling. A couple who were my daughter’s friends moved into my house using my bedroom and the communal areas. My daughters still have their bedrooms at the house although they both spend little time there as one likes to travel and the other is away at uni most of the time. At the time everyone was…
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Conflicting Survey and Valuation
I need a little advice. I'm currently buying my first property and it looks solid and fine. No history of subsistence, settlement, landslip or heave by the venders. However my mortgage company did a valuation on my behalf and wrote that there is evidence, but the risk is long standing and acceptable and there are no risks…
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Can a landlord include additional items in the checkout report based on feedback from the new tenant
My landlord has taken more than 2 weeks to send me the checkout report. While I was wondering what is taking him this long, I spoke with the new tenant. I have confirmed with the new tenant that a number of items are included in the checkout report after he reported them to the landlord. Can landlords do that legally?…
