Buying a house (and renting)

Victor Mildew wrote:Just had a friend email me with a total dump of a flat someone is trying to shift in Bristol!

Moggy wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Moggy wrote:The owner of the house I am trying to buy emailed me earlier. She asked for the link to my flat's listing as she has a couple of contacts that might be interested in buying flats in Bristol.

I sent it to her and she's come back saying she's going to pass the details onto a couple of people who buy flats and then rent them out.

Seems a bit weird to me so I'm not getting my hopes up.

Perhaps she's desperate to move and knows some landlords? Can't hurt for her to ask them.

Yeah that's my reading of the situation. Just sounds a little too good to be true.

Still, it doesn't hurt to see what happens.

Imagine if after all my ranting over the years, a buy to let landlord rides to my rescue.

A nice plot twist at the end of the saga, perhaps

Victor Mildew wrote:Just had a friend email me with a total dump of a flat someone is trying to shift in Bristol!

I'll dump on your face

Moggy wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:Just had a friend email me with a total dump of a flat someone is trying to shift in Bristol!

I'll dump on your face

Promises promises

Who cares if you're selling to a landlord at this point? It'll end up being rented at some point in the future, you may as well be the one to benefit from some greedy strawberry floater!

My Mrs looked up the house up the road and it's over double what the mortgage was on this place. No thanks.

Victor Mildew wrote:

Moggy wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:Just had a friend email me with a total dump of a flat someone is trying to shift in Bristol!

I'll dump on your face

Promises promises

Who cares if you're selling to a landlord at this point? It'll end up being rented at some point in the future, you may as well be the one to benefit from some greedy strawberry floater!

My Mrs looked up the house up the road and it's over double what the mortgage was on this place. No thanks.

I'll sell to anybody, I'm so pissed off being here that I have zero morals when it comes to getting rid of it.

After four months, reached contract exchange today. Wife and I moving into a 2-bed flat in Zone 4 London on the 15th - woop!

Moggy wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Moggy wrote:The owner of the house I am trying to buy emailed me earlier. She asked for the link to my flat's listing as she has a couple of contacts that might be interested in buying flats in Bristol.

I sent it to her and she's come back saying she's going to pass the details onto a couple of people who buy flats and then rent them out.

Seems a bit weird to me so I'm not getting my hopes up.

Perhaps she's desperate to move and knows some landlords? Can't hurt for her to ask them.

Yeah that's my reading of the situation. Just sounds a little too good to be true.

Still, it doesn't hurt to see what happens.

Imagine if after all my ranting over the years, a buy to let landlord rides to my rescue.

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:

Landlords are the real heroes

Moggy wrote:

Tomous wrote:

Moggy wrote:The owner of the house I am trying to buy emailed me earlier. She asked for the link to my flat's listing as she has a couple of contacts that might be interested in buying flats in Bristol.

I sent it to her and she's come back saying she's going to pass the details onto a couple of people who buy flats and then rent them out.

Seems a bit weird to me so I'm not getting my hopes up.

Perhaps she's desperate to move and knows some landlords? Can't hurt for her to ask them.

Yeah that's my reading of the situation. Just sounds a little too good to be true.

Still, it doesn't hurt to see what happens.

Imagine if after all my ranting over the years, a buy to let landlord rides to my rescue.

tell her to stick it up her arse

speedboatchase wrote:After four months, reached contract exchange today. Wife and I moving into a 2-bed flat in Zone 4 London on the 15th - woop!

If you've exchanged what's your plans before moving in given you're going to wait a few weeks?

Congratulations!

see! he took my advice and it worked wonders!

Qikz wrote:

speedboatchase wrote:After four months, reached contract exchange today. Wife and I moving into a 2-bed flat in Zone 4 London on the 15th - woop!

If you've exchanged what's your plans before moving in given you're going to wait a few weeks?

Congratulations!

Thanks! We're going to see the property again this weekend to take some measurements, as we need to make sure the couch and bed we would like will fit. Our landlord has agreed that they may waive the second month of rental notice (and rental payment) if they find a new tenant next month, so we'll spruce the current place up a bit too!

My trip home to Ireland actually occurs two days after completion, so we won't fully move in until October. While in Ireland, I'll start arranging for a painter to arrive the weekend I'm back, and try have our broadband provider to get things ready. My wife and I both work remotely, so we'll make sure to fully move on or right after the day we have broadband.

You work remotely….and you’re moving to central London?!!!!

Each to their own and all that, but seems the opposite of what I’d want to be doing.

Curls wrote:You work remotely….and you’re moving to central London?!!!!

Each to their own and all that, but seems the opposite of what I’d want to be doing.

I agree, but you can't really call zone 4 'central' London.

Curls wrote:You work remotely….and you’re moving to central London?!!!!

Each to their own and all that, but seems the opposite of what I’d want to be doing.

Well, we're renting in Zone 2 at the moment so Zone 4 keeps us close to the city, but with about double the space, an extra bedroom and mortgage repayments work out around the same as our current rent. My role is permanently remote, but my wife's isnt, so she's slowly being phased back to the office. Long-term, I think I'll end up finding a non-remote role is central London too.

Got some eye-watering legal quotes for a remortgage. The worst was almost 2k all-in! Although most were the best part of £1,000.

Choosing a mortgage product with the standard legal work for the remortgage included is a far bigger saving than when I last explored changing lenders 2 years ago.

What's bullshit is our now ex landlord claimed to Re occupy (I don't believe them one bit, it's capital gains tax avoidance) and we still had to pay a month's notice which by the way is £1075 plus utilities and £175 Council tax.

What the strawberry float is the point in paying rent for a notice period when the landlord is not at a loss for rent since they plan on "occupying" it (bearing in mind they own multiple homes this is so obviously bullshit).

In essence we were charged over £1200 because they wanted their property back. After spending over £45,000 on rent.

MP bloke has put his house up for sale, for £400k+

He's bought and been doing up the house about 2 strides across the road for the last year or so, so that should tell you how much being an MP pays.

They work for you who/whatever makes them the most money

*humble photo in front of coal mine*

They get there mortgage paid for them.