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Ending a tenancy and sorting out a subletting mess?

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19th December 2016, 9 years ago | 4

I have a property which I have had tenants in for 9 years. The rent is now well below market...

Unable to obtain mortgage on auction purchased ex-local authority flat?

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19th December 2016, 9 years ago | 14

I’m in a bit of financing conundrum and was hoping your good selves might be able to provide some potential...

Can’t get in to rental property due to domestic violence team putting in mortice locks and alarms?

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19th December 2016, 9 years ago | 11

My brother has been letting out a mid terrace house privately to a tenant for three years, lady with children...

Negative equity and end of mortgage term?

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19th December 2016, 9 years ago | 22

I have 2 properties both in negative equity to the tune of about £30K each on interest only mortgages. They...

Freehold directors removed me under company law and MOA?

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19th December 2016, 9 years ago | 3

I have been ganged up on by two directors who are acting improperly and have conspired and colluded to remove...

Can they pull the rug out this fast ??

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19th December 2016, 9 years ago | 4

I have had fully licensed 6 bed HMO for 5 years ( Basinghall finance mortgage ) who granted the change...

Problem with drunk and threatening tenant

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16th December 2016, 9 years ago | 7

We have a problem with a new tenant in an HMO house who has come in drunk and used threatening...

Can the system really be so stacked against the landlord?

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16th December 2016, 9 years ago | 9

I’d like confirmation please that we are doing everything we can here. We let our buy-to-let property through an estate...

Council want their housing money back – £15,000!

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16th December 2016, 9 years ago | 8

Tenant of over 20 years on housing benefit. Been paying their rent ok up to some months ago and then...

Second Floor Extension to my First Floor Flat

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16th December 2016, 9 years ago | 7

I live in block of flats with my family (wife and 2 daughters). The block has got 47 flats in...

How do we restore RTM company that was struck off?

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16th December 2016, 9 years ago | 1

We are a block of 28 flats in north London. Some years ago, we formed a Right to Manage company...

How do you Flip properties but not own them?

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15th December 2016, 9 years ago | 5

I have number of properties that I have sourced and want to flip to other investors at a profit, but...

Problem Owner Selling – Can we use opportunity to reclaim outstanding costs?

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15th December 2016, 9 years ago | 4

I’m a fifth owner of the freehold in a building of 5 flats. We manage the building ourselves and I’m...

Can anyone recommend a bank?

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14th December 2016, 9 years ago | 10

Can anyone recommend any particular bank that is supportive of limited companies in the property business? I’m just setting up...

The Tenants must now have their say on Section 24

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14th December 2016, 9 years ago | 15

I think the Government have their bog standard responses on auto response, we will make very little progress now I...

Freeholder ignoring my calls to fix leaking roof

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13th December 2016, 9 years ago | 5

I have bought a flat with a short lease (64 years), above a letting agent. I have noticed the roof...

Keeping the momentum going against Section 24

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13th December 2016, 9 years ago | 61

I have decided to adopt a policy of making myself a complete pain in the backside and try to create...

Sole property while on missionary work

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13th December 2016, 9 years ago | 4

I bought my house in, 1982. In 2008 I went to Spain working as a missionary working with a Church....

Section 24 and Mortgage Contracts flaw?

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12th December 2016, 9 years ago | 1

Having buried my head in the sand so far about the whole situation (I have 17 properties), I am now...

Carbon monoxide alarms

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12th December 2016, 9 years ago | 10

As a responsible Landlord, Non HMO, I’ve fitted Carbon Monoxide Alarms in the boiler room and where there is either...

Letting Agent not protected deposit and will not forward me the deposit

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12th December 2016, 9 years ago | 11

My old letting agent found tenants for a flat I own in Feb 2015 and at the time was led...