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What would you deem an acceptable offer
Good Afternoon All, We may be being a tad presumptive here, but OH and I are going to view the following property on Saturday. It is on the market at £299k and I'm getting vibes that the seller is keen to sell. It is currently being marketed with 2 agents, it is vacant possession, and they are having an open day on…
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Can someone explain please?
As Ive owned up before, I am a dumbo re financial workings. Can someone explain how this latest interest drop being forced on the banks helps the economy? I can see that businesses can be helped if they can borrow at a lower rate and hence possibly jobs saved but how does this balance against people not getting the…
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General Expenses Question ( rented prop )
The direct.gov website lists the following as allowable expenses: letting agent's fees legal fees for lets of a year or less, or for renewing a lease for less than 50 years accountant's fees buildings and contents insurance interest on property loans maintenance and repairs to the property (but not improvements) utility…
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Home Information Packs.
HELP!!! I’m planning on selling my house and I’ve got some great info to help me beat the estate agents down on the price of their fees. I have looked but I cant find anything on this site about H.I.P’s. Some estate agents include them in with their fees, others sell them separately, and they are all priced differently. Is…
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Another deposit question!!!
Morning, any advice/info appreciated; recently moved out of a long term let. All rules and notices observed. The property was routinely observed in August and was given a clean bill of health. Gave keys in one day early for the convenience of the letting agent, infromally told everything was fine and final inspection…
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Should the landord pay?
Hi, I'm after some guidance... Daughter at Uni in York, renting a house with 2 other girls paying £750 per month ( 2 up 2 down):o Landord not exactly proactive in getting things done. Two weeks ago the BT line went down, BT called out and it seems the previous tenants had installed extensions in each of the rooms and one…
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selling without agents.
This has probably been asked before so please forgive me. I'll try to make it simple: My house on the market for £225.000 Neighbours house across the road on the market for £125.000 He wants ours we want his. Both up with seperate agents. We have discussed amongst ourselves about taking them both off the market & doing the…
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2 Years Tax Returns Possibly Not Submitted
My sister's boyfriend is currently filing his tax returns for 07/08 which needs to be done online by Jan 09 He started letting out the property in June 2005. To my knowledge this is the FIRST tax return he has done as he made losses / small profits in 05/06 and 06/07 From reading other posts on a similar topic, it would…
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PLanning to Rent a Property - Help Required
I'm thinking of moving back home and renting my property out to tide me over cash wise. I have a couple of questions. I am a new comer to all this, so please be patient with me! ;) 1. I understand the deadline for online assessments is 31st Jan. So for example, April 07 - April 08 would have to be submitted by Jan 09? If I…
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Estate Agency Fees
Hi, we are wanting to put our house up for sale but know nothing about this at all as it is the first house we are selling. How much do estate agency firms cost? Do you have to pay monthly to them for selling your house? Or do they take a cut from the sale of it? Thanks in advance
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Hints and tips for a first viewing.
Good evening, I'm going to view a house tomorrow. Property looks great and the price is seriously reduced (was £150,000, reduced this week to £105,000- owner needs to sell asap). 150,000 is slightly overpriced, other similar properties are on for around 140. Either way, down to 105,000 is a cracking reduction. (3 bed…
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Amusing letter from desperate letting agent
Hi My letting agents have written to me today telling (not asking) me that they are going to put a "let by" sign outside my house. Fine you might think... but they let the house to me over 4 years ago :rotfl: :confused: :rotfl: :confused: :rotfl: They must be really desperate for business. On a serious note, can I refuse?…
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Sell or Rent
I have just put my house on the market again to try and sell im dying to get out of here, neighbours are driving me crazy, the price is in line if not lower than most in my area and i know it could take ages, I was contemplating renting the only worry is if you can not get a tenant and you have to pay the mortage plus the…
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House in barn!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/derbyshire/7715908.stm Funny news story. People trying to avoid planning consent had built a house inside a barn (or built a barn outside a house). An anonymous person sent a map to the council with "house in barn" and an arrow pointing to map. Feel a bit sorry for the people as they run…
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BBC prog on credit crunch and social housing
How is the credit crunch affecting your chances of finding affordable housing or finally reaching the top the waiting list for a council property? The Donal MacIntyre asks what will happen to social housing now that private developers have stopped building and the number on council waiting lists is likely to grow to 5…
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on the way down
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-22228010.rsp?pa_n=5&tr_t=buy&mam_disp=true from 316 to 249.....:T
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Deposit Problem - Advice Needed
Hi we signed a lease for 12 months - it was a really run down house we totally redecorated throughout put new kitchen tops in which cost £250 all decorating was paid by ourselves. We put decking down and landscaped the garden all at our expense - the landlord told us to treat it like our own house! However, the neighbours…
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Dubai
Hi all, Has anyone bought a property off-plan in Dubai? I went for a Studio apartment last year and once I've paid for it my outgoings will have been around £57k. I had a look before everything went t* up and Studio's in Dubai Sports City (where I've bought) were double in value. Just wondering what the situation is now…
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Will we get our mortgage?
We have had an offer on a houe accepted but had to have a strucutral survey due to there being cracks in the extension, this has now came back saying it may be cheaper to rebuild the extension at the cost of 10k! then the property will be mortgagable!! So will we still get our mortgage???:confused:
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Help - being gazundered.
We sold our house at a very much lower price that it was on the market for, as we had found a house that was quite cheap, and therefore it was do-able. However, this is was all going through when our buyer turned up at our front door and said he was dropping his offer by £12,500, after playing games, this then became £10K.…