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Japanese Knotweed found in survey?

14th October 2015, 11 years ago | 10

I am buying a property and the surveyor found the Japanese knotweed (JK) during the valuation, the mortgage provider may...

Property Succession to Children – me

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14th October 2015, 11 years ago | 13

My parents are in the process of adding my name to one of their buy to let property mortgages. In...

Students now preferred over professionals by lender!

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14th October 2015, 11 years ago | 3

Anyone else come across mortgage provider preferring student let to professionals? I have a house of 4 that has been...

Subletting with landlords blessing but now I am being sued?

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13th October 2015, 11 years ago | 8

I was living in rented house for over 5 years with my brother and sister in law. About a year...

Lodger refusing to pay rent for time spent away on holiday?

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13th October 2015, 11 years ago | 3

I rent a flat with my boyfriend and we have rented out our spare bedroom with our landlord’s permission. When...

Please help with my overheads estimate for an HMO

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13th October 2015, 11 years ago | 9

I’m trying to get an idea of which is a better investment BTL or HMO and trying to do the...

Invest for yield or capital appreciation?

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12th October 2015, 11 years ago | 7

I have taken 90k of equity of my current property. But I am in small dilemma on how to invest...

Agent will not supply tradesmens invoices requested by insurance company

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12th October 2015, 11 years ago | 13

I have made an insurance claim for a damaged door, which had been kicked in and the insurance company say...

Should I sell or re-let my London flat or both?

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8th October 2015, 11 years ago | 5

I am in a quandary about my flat and hoping for some experienced advice! Having successfully evicted destructive tenants after...

Didn’t protect deposit and tenant turned nasty taking us to court for 6 times deposit!

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8th October 2015, 11 years ago | 25

My husband and I have a converted garage annex flat on side of our property and we rented it out...

Best carpet for BTL property with steep slippery stairs?

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8th October 2015, 11 years ago | 5

I’ve just inherited a tenanted Victorian terraced house in reasonably good condition. When I asked the tenants if there were...

Termination of agreement with letting agent – I want to be fair

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7th October 2015, 11 years ago | 9

I entered into an agreement with a letting agency at the end of Jan 2015 and an excellent tenant moved...

New Build plus 50k to council?

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6th October 2015, 11 years ago | 28

I have a small of piece of land in my garden that can fit a small 2 bed house. I...

Model assured shorthold tenancy agreement

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6th October 2015, 11 years ago | 2

I’m just about to let a property to Tenants. The Government Model Agreement contains a landlord’s break clause. However, there...

Deposit Protection for a company let

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6th October 2015, 11 years ago | 4

Does anyone know if there is a requirement to protect deposits taken for a company let? All the literature that...

Investing in property with friends is it best to set up as a limited company

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5th October 2015, 11 years ago | 11

I am currently in the early stages of buying to let with 2 friends, we are still learning the ropes...

We have a good tenant on a periodic tenancy and we need to sell the property – how do we stand?

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4th October 2015, 11 years ago | 4

We have a difficult tenant who signed a periodic tenancy last year and we now need to sell the property....

Extension on top of the flat

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4th October 2015, 11 years ago | 7

I own a flat in Ealing, West London. There are total of 47 flats in my block. Flats 1-45 are...

Crossrail turmoil

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2nd October 2015, 11 years ago | 5

I’m in real turmoil and would appreciate any words of wisdom from someone with your property experience! I own a...

Unregistered Estate agent will not pass on my offer?

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1st October 2015, 11 years ago | 8

I am looking to buy a property from an Estate Agent. They will not pass our offer onto the buyer...

Legionella Risk Assessment – I wasn’t aware!

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30th September 2015, 11 years ago | 31

How many of us is aware of this new regulation? I have to say I was totally unaware until I...