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Home Information Packs (HIPs) The Facts
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courtjester wrote: »It wouldn't be acceptable as only authorised registered inspectors can produce the energy certificate required for the pack.
Or if you know your way around microsoft office and photoshop
I can make perfect birth certificates:rotfl:0 -
Been doing other things and on other sites for a few days, so I haven't replied until now. Hmm, important marketing tool in Canada. Not the Canada with the mild winters then? How much do they pay their EAs in Canada or is it more like Realtors in the US where the usual cut is 6-7%?Canucklehead wrote: »Bobproperty: I agree to disagree on this one...in the long term the energy efficiency of a property will become more significant (has already become an important marketing tool in Canada) ...and how did you know I wear sandals? Big brother must be watching!:D
CanuckleheadA house isn't a home without a cat.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.0 -
Why bother, you can get duplicates for a couple of quid. See the Phantom Student story here http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/programmes/fivelivereport.shtmlOr if you know your way around microsoft office and photoshop
I can make perfect birth certificates:rotfl:A house isn't a home without a cat.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.0 -
BobProperty wrote: »Been doing other things and on other sites for a few days, so I haven't replied until now. Hmm, important marketing tool in Canada. Not the Canada with the mild winters then? How much do they pay their EAs in Canada or is it more like Realtors in the US where the usual cut is 6-7%?
Good evening: This is is a long way off the original topic but if you are interested ,Bobproperty, in the Canadian real estate industry and need more detail check out this site https://www.crea.ca/index.htm ....thinking of emigrating?:D
HTH
CanuckleheadAsk to see CIPHE (Chartered Institute of Plumbing & Heating Engineering)0 -
I am told that energy saving bulbs will only be taken into account in a HIP if they are in energy saving light fittings? What are they? Mine fit in standard bayonet fittings.0
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Not thinking of emigrating. Been on a number of American sites recently following the problems over in the US and watching the "slow motion car crashes" otherwise known as "Casey Serin" and "Jeff from SDCIA" plus all the mortgage fraud that's unravelling now.Canucklehead wrote: »Good evening: This is is a long way off the original topic but if you are interested ,Bobproperty, in the Canadian real estate industry and need more detail check out this site https://www.crea.ca/index.htm ....thinking of emigrating?:D
HTH
CanuckleheadA house isn't a home without a cat.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.0 -
From The House of Lords report into this farce
”We cannot but conclude that the Government have not been able to convince the principal stakeholders in the housing market that their proposals as they now stand are sensible or worthwhile, or are likely to be effective for their declared purpose”
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200607/ldselect/ldmerit/92/9203.htm
The Telegraph is having a go today
"The looming fiasco that is the Government's home information pack (HIP) will serve as a fitting memorial to Tony Blair's 10 years in office. It is pure, unadulterated, 24-carat New Labour - pointless, ill-conceived, spiteful, smug and incompetently delivered."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2007/05/07/do0702.xml"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."
Bertrand Russell. British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 - 1970)0 -
Can I just ask - if your house is on the market with an estate agent before June and then you change estate agents after 1 June - are you liable for the HIPS pack even though officially your house was on the market prior to this date?0
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The HIP requirements are nothing to do with whether you use an estate agent or not. The fundamental is whether you are marketing the property, not the method of marketing.
So changing agents has no effect on the HIP.
If your house is on the market (with or without an agent) prior to 1 June, you will not need to pay for a HIP until January 2008, only assuming you haven't already sold by then.0 -
courtjester wrote: »The HIP requirements are nothing to do with whether you use an estate agent or not. The fundamental is whether you are marketing the property, not the method of marketing.
So changing agents has no effect on the HIP.
If your house is on the market (with or without an agent) prior to 1 June, you will not need to pay for a HIP until January 2008, only assuming you haven't already sold by then.
That's great - thank you!0
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