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Post by Dougs on Nov 3, 2022 18:21:04 GMT
Just regulate it properly. Give tenants proper rights, hold landlords to account. It ain't rocket science - of course I know why that's not going to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2022 8:08:04 GMT
There's actually some decent steps being taken on that front, to my immense surprise.
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Post by Dougs on Nov 4, 2022 8:37:29 GMT
They've been promising that for yonks...have they finally brought legislation forward?!
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Post by mrpon on Nov 4, 2022 9:22:08 GMT
My valuation is today, hoping for a positive outcome so I can be in by Xmas!
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Post by Dougs on Nov 4, 2022 9:30:11 GMT
Did you move again or is this still the property that you were doing extensive renovations to?
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Post by Psiloc on Nov 4, 2022 9:37:07 GMT
So I'm about to put my flat on the market and move into rented with the Future Mrs GoatApocalypse. None of my business of course but is there some desperate personal financial situation that is making you do this
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2022 9:45:19 GMT
So I'm about to put my flat on the market and move into rented with the Future Mrs GoatApocalypse. None of my business of course but is there some desperate personal financial situation that is making you do this No, not at all. But we want to move in together and my flat is in a very boring bit of a boring suburb of Birmingham (the nearest pub is about 30 minutes walk away), so we want to live in the city centre for a bit. She's never lived with a partner either, so we thought it might make some sense to rent while we figure out how that works and how she finds having my kids around before we make a significant investment.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2022 9:45:48 GMT
They've been promising that for yonks...have they finally brought legislation forward?! I believe so, judging by the cry-arsing I've seen.
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Post by mrpon on Nov 4, 2022 9:50:22 GMT
Did you move again or is this still the property that you were doing extensive renovations to? Same property, it's 3 years in Jan still living at my Dads. I've not put my girls to bed for over a year Nightmare.
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Post by Dougs on Nov 4, 2022 9:51:32 GMT
Crikey, that's a looooong time to be living at your dad's and not being able to put your kids to bed. It'll all be worth it, I'm sure!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2022 14:24:16 GMT
Just got the asking price for my flat. Well, £5k less than I put it on for, but the current asking price.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Nov 25, 2022 14:53:05 GMT
Sounds like a result given the market atm.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2022 16:13:47 GMT
Yeah I'm really pleased. Cash buyer, too, so should happen pretty rapidly.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2022 15:19:49 GMT
And they've pulled out. Time-wasting cunts.
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Post by dmukgr on Nov 28, 2022 15:34:32 GMT
That sucks. We need a sad button as well as the thumbs up one.
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Post by technoish on Nov 28, 2022 15:43:08 GMT
Stupid English system. In Scotland or USA it would have been a done deal already.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2022 15:51:39 GMT
Indeed. And it's left me £200 down on solicitors' fees already.
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Post by mrpon on Nov 28, 2022 16:40:58 GMT
I'm actually on my 4th valuation now. Been told absolute horseshit by the lenders/brokers about what constitutes a habitable property. Twice now. Credit cards maxed out, living on fumes and just apportioning the surplus income to who needs it most to get it over the line! Builder has been amazing, hoping to be in for Xmas with final valuation booked for the New Year.
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Post by Derblington on Nov 29, 2022 13:39:14 GMT
Maybe not quite the right thread but holy fuck is renting expensive!? I'm considering moving back to be closer to family but fucking 2k for a 2 bedroom flat rental (Surrey)... I don't understand how you can rent and run a car, and live, on less than 60K a year.
The cost of living is high here (Stockholm) but nothing like that. I'm genuinely not sure I can move back even if I want to.
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Post by freddiemercurystwin on Nov 29, 2022 15:11:54 GMT
We tried to move back to Surrey back in about 2010, just couldn't do it, would have ended up in the back end of Crawley or somewhere, hence staying down in Devon when the rest of my family (or what's left of it) are up there. Quite possibly over stretched ourselves down here tbh in the last move, this was supposed to be our forever home but with the way things are going that's looking quite unlikely.
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Post by Tomo on Dec 7, 2022 21:37:33 GMT
So after a year of house hunting, today we had our second attempt at a purchase fall through. Huzzahhh...
Seller was a total cunt. The worst I've dealt with. He dismissed the 15-20k worth of issues raised in the survey as not a problem and offered a paltry 2k to us. We asked for 7k as a compromise and he pulled the plug. That's after issuing us an ultimatum that we must exchange in the next 2 days. And also after he wouldn't send us the gas certificate he said he had that proved the boiler worked. This is someone who we know owns another £1m+ house in Essex. Absolute nutjob and one of the biggest cunts I've had the displeasure of dealing with. Bullet dodged perhaps.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 7, 2022 21:49:24 GMT
Wow, definte bullet dodged imo. Not sure I could have let it get that far (appreciate the time sink and emotional attachment etc). Fuck those cunts.
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Post by Zuluhero on Dec 7, 2022 22:03:55 GMT
That really sucks. When reading the first part I could see being asked to drop it 20k would cause someone to can the sale, personally I would do the same if we couldn't reach an agreeable compromise.
Equally though, if I was faced with the prospect of a survey showing 20k worth of problems, as a buyer I would back off too.
Not sure what to make of that revelation though, I guess the rich don't get rich without pinching every penny.
Must be horrible to go through though, I know all too well how expensive it is to this point, only for it all to get flushed. It's devastating. Really sorry to hear that.
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Post by technoish on Dec 7, 2022 22:35:12 GMT
I guess it depends on the issues. I'm sure if we added up everything in our survey it would have cost that, but none of that was hidden stuff so seems fair enough "as seen". Also I don't think we've done any of the stuff suggested.
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Post by Dougs on Dec 7, 2022 23:00:25 GMT
The gas certification thing is more of a red flag imo. I think trying to reach a compromise was the right thing to do - need to be met halfway though. Gets to a point where you have to say "good luck selling it at that price with those issues".
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Post by mrpon on Dec 7, 2022 23:27:49 GMT
Was it valued at 20k less though?
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Post by Zuluhero on Dec 8, 2022 0:49:57 GMT
That's where it comes unstuck, there might be 20k of issues but the valuer might agree that the house is still worth it despite the survey.
If that's the case, it becomes much harder to negotiate.
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Post by Tomo on Dec 8, 2022 8:25:55 GMT
The 15-20k sum included various things which we discounted straight away because they were obvious from the outset. For instance, some of the wooden windows were rotten and needed replacing. Anyone with half a brain can see that during the viewing, so we took off 7.5k for those.
The rest ranged from small things (replacing some rotten gutterboard) to more major (boiler on brink). Some could've been ignored, hence we compromised to 7k final. I still think there was more than 7k of repairs as tradespeople in London are £££. We asked if we could send a builder/engineer round to provide actual quotes, but he wouldn't have it. Crazy for someone with no pressure of chain, etc. especially given it's less than 1% of sale price.
Also I spoke to estate agent about it all and they said he's been like it from the beginning. They said we weren't being unreasonable in our requests and that "he is basically always right". I said he's behaved like a bellend throughout and the reply was "I wouldn't disagree with that assessment".
So yeah, annoying, but we're comfortable in our stance. The accruing costs, the red flags, the irrational apparent urgency of this guy and the sense of being pushed around ultimately made us push back on his bullshit and then he threw his toys out of the pram.
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Post by jeepers on Dec 8, 2022 8:32:46 GMT
We had folk asking for reductions based on work they thought needed doing. My view was that the price was the price and they were welcome to ask, and I was welcome to say No.
But that was when selling a house was a lot easier than I expect it is today.
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Post by Tomo on Dec 8, 2022 8:42:20 GMT
Yeah, I get that. I would be pretty stubborn with survey results on my own house tbh. That's why I wanted to send in someone to take a look at boiler etc. But when I put in that request he plucked out of his arse that we had to exchange in 72 hours time and complete 2 weeks later! Whut
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