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Right to buy - poor credit

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  • cherry76
    cherry76 Posts: 1,097 Forumite
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    I am interested in a maisonette. Estate agent told me there is no service how will this work with future repairs. Ground rent £20 a year. The lease is short 81 yrs. can anybody offer some advice pl? Thanks
  • Benjo247
    Benjo247 Posts: 8 Forumite
    They confirmed there was no service charge but ground rent which wasn't much. In my case the lease is 125 yrs.
  • da_rule
    da_rule Posts: 3,618 Forumite
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    Benjo247 wrote: »
    They confirmed there was no service charge but ground rent which wasn't much. In my case the lease is 125 yrs.

    I would very much doubt there would be no service charge on a leasehold property. This would be extremely poor on the Council’s part.
  • da_rule
    da_rule Posts: 3,618 Forumite
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    cherry76 wrote: »
    I am interested in a maisonette. Estate agent told me there is no service how will this work with future repairs. Ground rent £20 a year. The lease is short 81 yrs. can anybody offer some advice pl? Thanks

    Start your own thread, as that is a completely unrelated question.
  • markin
    markin Posts: 3,860 Forumite
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    All fine until they bill you 20K for the new roof.
  • Benjo247
    Benjo247 Posts: 8 Forumite
    Luckily the roof was done about 10 yrs ago.
  • diggingdude
    diggingdude Posts: 2,492 Forumite
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    The large bills are factored into the huge discounts so are fair
    An answer isn't spam just because you don't like it......
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