Buying a house (and renting)

I had a more pleasant spin on sat's story in our house. A few days after moving in I was woken up by a cheery hello and a woman walking up the stairs. She looked at me in confusion and asked where the previous owner was. It quickly became apparent she was a carer with the code to the key safe and hadn't been told about the move date. She was very embarassed to be fair :lol:

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **jawa_** » Fri Sep 29, 2023 9:42 am

satriales wrote:...We then discover the previous owner lying motionless on the bedroom floor. Wife shook her and no response. We thought she was dead. Then on a second shake she woke up. She was just drunk and sleeping...

...

. Good grief!

OrangeRKN wrote:...A few days after moving in I was woken up by a cheery hello and a woman walking up the stairs. She looked at me in confusion and asked where the previous owner was. It quickly became apparent she was a carer with the code to the key safe and hadn't been told about the move date...

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. Good grief x2!

To be fair I can totally understand that from the PA, what with PAs coming and going to my mum's/gran's (they live together at the moment) and my place too. It doesn't surprise me at all that just nobody would tell them, especially those working through agencies etc.

Never did the key safe thing though and I sometimes worry about that and my mum having one.

Moggy wrote:
RetroCora wrote:
Moggy wrote:
RetroCora wrote:
ITSMILNER wrote:I was tempted to hire a professional cleaner to come round but the carpets need replacing so there’s not much point, we are going to do the painting and decorating first and then once that’s all been sorted we’ll rip the carpets out and replace them.

Sorry to hear this, Milner. For what it's worth, I complete on Friday and have had to do exactly this(have been given access to the house already). Professional cleaners and a gardener for the jungle that has been left surrounding the house. Cigarette butts and burst footballs all over the front and back garden, gates off the hinges, filthy rooms with books, football tops, Christmas decorations and other personal effects strewn across the place. I'm having to run everything up to the dump just to have it clear for the cleaners coming in.

I bought the house from my dad. His sister has been living in it for the last six or seven years.

Well that isn't VIP treatment is it.

No it isn't, it's caused a lot of stress and it seems to be causing a hell of an issue between my dad and his sister. But, you know, lol VIP.

I didn't mean any offence, it was just a joke because you accidentally used an alt account.

I know you didn't mate, I'm just easily triggered about the whole thing at the moment. The glib response to a serious bit of stress was not what I was looking for. :lol:

With that said, after carting something like 50 garden-sized bin bags to the dump over the last few days, at least me and the cat are in there now. I'm being skinned hundreds of pounds (at least) I can't afford because things need done or repaired, or furniture that was supposed to be left has been taken(a couch, a fridge-freezer and a washing machine), but the hope is that I can get the essentials done now and the rest when I get back from Australia in January. The garden is strawberry floating rank though still, cigarette ends and rusted bits of metal and all sorts of weird stuff all over the show. :dread:

Landlord wants to put the rent up by 20%. :dread:

I have a friend that thinks this is illegal (it should be no more then 10%) but I cant find anything that actually backs that up. So just checking with any of you lot. Am I going to have to bend over and take it?

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Godzilla** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:42 pm

Contact Citizen advice bureau for the best advice.

https://www.gov.uk/private-renting/rent-increases

Online states just had to be fair. But I think that's open to interpretation.

“the rent increase must be fair and realistic, which means in line with average local rents”

Godzilla wrote:Contact Citizen advice bureau for the best advice.

https://www.gov.uk/private-renting/rent-increases

Online states just had to be fair. But I think that's open to interpretation.

Thanks Godzilla. That was pretty much all I could find to. Might well contact them.

If I gave you his address would you go tread on his million pound house for me?

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Godzilla** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:58 am

I imagine a lot of people's rent is going to increase dramatically due to lack of social housing and increased demand for private rental properties. I can't see the government taking any action to limit this. Despite it's impact on inflation.

Godzilla wrote:I imagine a lot of people's rent is going to increase dramatically due to lack of social housing and increased demand for private rental properties. I can't see the government taking any action to limit this. Despite it's impact on inflation.

The UK's preferred method of measuring inflation is CPI which doesn't factor in housing costs properly.

Even CPIH which is intended to correct for this does not represent monthly housing costs in a sensible way (and also doesn't include average house prices to buy). The associated monthly payment is going to be the biggest household expense and yet is effectively ignored.

CPI also includes VAT so if increasing it to reduce demand, it will make inflation appear higher until it drops out after 12 months.

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Godzilla** » Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:54 am

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67006468

Renters chasing each home jumps from 20 to 25 in five months

The average queue of tenants requesting to view a rental property in Britain has lengthened from 20 to 25 in five months, figures from Rightmove show.

In 2019, there were typically six telephone or email requests to see each place. That had risen to 20 by this spring, and five months on it is 25.

Agents described the mismatch between demand and supply as "just crazy".

It comes as the average advertised rent for a new let outside of London has risen to a record £1,278 per month.

Property portal Rightmove said these prices had risen by 10% in July to September, compared with the same period last year.

Average advertised rents on new lets in London also rose to £2,627 a month, 12.1% higher than a year earlier, it said.

Not great news for those closest to me.

JChalmers wrote:So latest curveball, the people buying our house have pulled out as they couldn't get the money to buy it

Sounds like they didn't have a clue how house buying worked, the bloke didn't have 3-months of payslips (not sure if he's only just started a new job or something) and then the money they were being gifted by their parents is stuck in India and they can't get it over here (again not that believable as there's multiple ways to transfer money across the globe).

So ours in back on the market, the one I had an offer accepted on the couple are separating. The bloke living in there was willing to give me a couple of weeks grace to find a new buyer for ours but the woman who's moved out refused and demanded it to go back on the market straight away. So it's not relisted but my offer is still listed as sale agreed incase ours sells quickly.

Part of me wants to drop the listing price another £5K and take the hit if it means it's more desirable for selling, but my ex doesn't want to as it'll impact what she can afford house-wise. Might wait until the weekend and if we have no new interest, drop the price and I'll take the hit on my side of the money just to get everything moving again.

They say moving-house is the most stressful thing ever, completely agree, just want this house shot, want to move, have this divorce finalized and start my life again.

Still not moved.

We had a new buyer offer the same week we relisted for the full amount and my house was still on the market.

It's just a drag with solicitors and everything now, think we're towards the end and hoping to move Early/Mid-Nov but trying to get any info from the solicitors in regards to estimated completion is like banging your head against a brick wall.

I've signed the Transfer Documents and Contract papers for my new house today and sent them to solicitor, hoping that means we're near the end and almost ready to exchange but there's still queries needing answered by the seller's solicitors.

Now the buyers solicitors of mine are asking if we'll do a full electric test on the house which isn't cheap. I've said it'll be cost dependent, now we're waiting to hear if it's a demand or not from the buyers.

Ex-wife's house fell through and she's now offered on somewhere else, but has accepted it won't be tied up in this chain so she's moving into rented accomodation when we complete to allow this chain (only 3 buyers, My New House < Our House < Our house buyers house) so should be relatively painless when it actually comes to the move.

I think Gordon Ramsay might have actually solved the 'people can't afford houses' problem here... wait until you find out the one simple thing he did :shock:

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twitter.com/mrjakehumphrey/status/1715998437978542495

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Qikz** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 11:55 am

God damn, I never thought of selling my non existant car before.

Qikz wrote:God damn, I never thought of selling my non existant car before.

Used car salesman hate this one simple trick!

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **jawa_** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 12:39 pm

I've been thinking that I'd like to get a house but I just don't have money.

Then again... why don't I just get half the cash off a relative and sell a Porsche? It seems so simple now! :lol:

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Jake Humphrey is just a proper tool for this absolute nonsense.

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **aayl1** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 1:35 pm

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:I think Gordon Ramsay might have actually solved the 'people can't afford houses' problem here... wait until you find out the one simple thing he did .

twitter.com/mrjakehumphrey/status/1715998437978542495

"We were skint, didn't have any money"

£20,000 and a porsche is not skint mate.

PostRe: Buying a house (and renting) by **Moggy** » Sun Oct 22, 2023 1:37 pm

aayl1 wrote:
Oblomov Boblomov wrote:I think Gordon Ramsay might have actually solved the 'people can't afford houses' problem here... wait until you find out the one simple thing he did .

twitter.com/mrjakehumphrey/status/1715998437978542495

"We were skint, didn't have any money"

£20,000 and a porsche is not skint mate.

It's not skint nowadays. And Ramsay is talking about decades ago.

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