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New to the House Buying, Selling & Renting board? Start here
✅ This board is for... * Questions about buying or selling a home * Questions about renting a home * Questions about being a landlord 🚫 This board is not for.. * Debating the state of the economy * Debating house prices in general * Political debates Note: In order to help keep the Forum a useful, safe and friendly place…
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Tenancies in Eng/Wales: Guides for landlords and tenants
post 1 This thread is intended to provide information to both landlords and tenants relating to Assured Shorthold Tenancies (ASTs) in England and Wales. Updated April 2020 to include the Coronavirus Act 2020 and July 2020 to include the Electrical Safety Standards Regulations 2020. Topics covered: Post 2: Repairing…
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Thank You
Hi all No advice needed (this time), I was fortunate enough to complete on a great house this aft so am now officially a homeowner!! I just wanted to take the chance to say thank you to everyone on this board for the various advices and support you've given me through this FTB journey! Since I joined you guys have seen me…
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A huge thank you!
I just wanted to say a very big thank you to all the folks who give their time and expertise on here. I'm an avid reader on a few boards, and reading this one has meant that I could help my friend Jules a few months ago when she started having trouble with her landlady. I just regurgitated a few points that I'm forever…
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The Strangest Thing You've Seen When Viewing a House?
We viewed a house this week, going with an open mind as we could tell by the photographs that it needed some serious updating. The property details only showed a photograph for one bedroom, now we know why. We were absolutely gobsmacked when the vendor opened the door to Bedroom 2. The whole room (approximately 10 ft…
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I despair...
Person buys house on 70mph dual carriageway A-road, moves in, finds out house is on 70mph dual-carriageway A-road. https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/property/couple-forced-wear-earplugs-bed-20350434 https://goo.gl/maps/38zzqubmNZMibZ7V9 "Whilst going through the buying process on the lower-priced home, nearer the road,…
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Just got the keys to my new bungalow
Just a quick thank you to everyone who has helped me with my questions over the past six months. I've just got the keys and the bungalow seems a lot smaller than I remember, but I'm determined to make it a happy home. My dog approved and rolled all over the carpets, think I'd better shampoo them!
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Good times
I know the nature of this forum means we mostly tend to post at times of stress or uncertainty, but just wanted to speak up about a buying experience that went well. We got the keys to our new flat today, and despite everything else that's going on at the moment, we didn't really have any hiccups. A couple of days ago, our…
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I did it! i moved!
I'm so happy to have finally moved! 14 months of housing stress and its all over :) . thanks to all your support and advice while i was losing my mind with the stress! I really love my new bungalow :)
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An apology
So, like quite a few of you around here, I’ve been contributing to this forum for quite a few years now and have found myself replying to the same old questions in an abrupt manner lately. It’s not that I mean to be rude, just that I wish people would actually search the thousands of previous threads before posting the…
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House Buying, Renting & Selling - My Top Threads of All Time (guess what's number one?)
I completed today on my purchase. It has taken literally 13 months from starting to view places. We have gone through plague, near-redundancy, terrible conveyancers, murder graffiti, and crazy arguments and YOU, yes YOU have kept my head on straight! I’ve groaned, laughed and been astonished by this forum and the selfless…
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First Time Buyer - Story and things I wish I'd known!
As a nervous first time buyer who recently completed, I thought I’d pop
a post up with things I learnt that may help someone else. These things may
seem stupid to some people, but as I said this is more from one FTB to another. So my history. I got divorced in early 2018 and
had some bad credit around that point from…
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Completed
Hey all I Just wanted to come on and share my news! My mortgage completed today at about half 2 and I am ecstatic! Lots of people wont share this joy and I have a very limited social circle and as I'm in work currently, some seem a bit reserved over the matter, but I'm over the moon! I am so glad to put this period of…
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Good Morning & Merry Christmas
From our house (well, mobile home atm) to yours I wish you everything you wish yourselves . Have a good day & a prosperous 2023
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I'm never moving house again
If I ever come on here and suggest that we're selling our new house, can you remind me not to do it. We were supposed to be exchanging/completing last week with our third set of buyers. The buyer's buyer has today decided to gazunder them. I figured this was coming, thanks to some the thousands of stories I've read on…
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Finally got my home after 3 years of graft - my MSE forum journey.
So back around 2018 I posted (since deleted) on the old forum that I wanted to seriously save for my own flat or house. I’d struggled financially for years after putting myself through university but had finally started earning decent money well into my 30s. I still owed a couple of grand in credit card debt at the time…
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Sold!!! Thank you :)
Hello. I'd just like to thank all those who replied to my posts and my newbie seller questions. The property of my dear latest B. sold at exactly my asking price of £325K. It was all rather nerve wrecking (and hard work!) as I thought that the buyers might have wanted to negotiate to a lower price; but it did not happen.…
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Could my luck have changed??
Hi all - many of you may have seen post from me over the last few months as i joined the gang of us that are in the stressful process of selling/buying houses. Anyone visiting this forum for the first time - take reassurance that the contributors on here are really great people and full of knowledge..... Bit of a long one…
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You have to chuckle at viewer feedback!
I hope it's not just me, but sometimes you do have to chuckle at viewer feedback! Lovely house, however didn't like the layout and the fact it's over three floors. Lovely presented property, however wasn't keen on it being on a hill. Do people not read descriptions, look at floorplans and Google streetview! Or in the case…
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What are your worst or weirdest experiences from a vendor hosting the viewings?
Following on from another thread I thought this could make a fun read. What are your stories? I went to a viewing once by the vendor and he was bad at it! He walked around pointing out all the problems and ow expensive they would be to fix, telling us how busy the road was and going on about how when he moved in he had…
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CONVEYANCING SCAM!!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!!
So today I telephoned my conveyancer in order to get their banking account details. We are do to complete on our house on Friday so I wanted to get our deposit money across in good time in order to avoid a delay. Normally my conveyancer shares documents and communicates with me via a portal but for some reason it is not…
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What is this!? Strange listing photos
Gave me a good chuckle. Not sure if this is intentional or lazy. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/85696806#/?channel=RES_BUY
