I co-own a house with my brothers and sisters. An order for sale was issued in February 2010- should the house have been sold by now?

Actually I was living in the house and my siblings got the order issued so that I woudl be evicted from the house. I was sure they had to sell the house pretty soon after the order. But so far they havent done anything to sell the property. What is the legal stand point now? Are they contravining the order since they have not tried to sell the house? Plus what can I do in order to get the house sold as quickly as possible? I talked to their lawyer but he claims he no longer has responsibilty for what happens with the house (he also wants to charge me for telling me that). This whole situation is so annoying. Detailed advice would be greatly appreciarted!!!!
To alfthegardener: I was living in the house with the permission of my siblings. They decided they wanted to sell it- I said no. So they applied and were granted an Order of Sale for the property. The OfS was granted in February 2010 but they have made no efforts to see the property. I want to know where this leaves me now, as I want the house to be sold in accordance with the OfS. Any ideas on my next move?

We have money saved and can secure a mortgage. We are just unsure as we seem to be hearing conflicting reports regarding the current housing market. The short term numbers all seem to add up and rental income would more than cover the mortgage repayments. We also seem to have a very good rental market and are assured by an independent source that we would have no trouble letting the property. I guess our one and only big concern in the matter is the value of the property falling as we may need to sell quite quickly.

Somebody I know has found a house for sale where the vendor is a Power Of Attorney to the owner, an elderly lady in a home no longer capable of looking after herself.
The vendor wants to sell the house quickly as he will no longer be Power Of Attorney or be part of the will after the lady has died. It is thought she only has a few weeks to live as she is terminally ill.
He is letting it go cheap but wants to add £20,000 to the sale price to keep for himself on the side. I am considering buying the property, but would like to know what happens if the lady dies during the sale process. Will the sale automaticaly fall through as the will comes into force, will I then get the property without having to pay the extra £20,000 (which I am not sure if the solicitors even know about) or will nothing change for me.
Thankyou for your help.

just wondering if anyone has ever sold their house via one of those companies that buy your house quickly and you received slightly (?) less money that you would get on the market? Are they legit? or do they tend to rip people off and take advantage of people who are having financial difficulties?

OK, so me and my hubby have been renting off a private landlord since October 2007. Originally it was a flat and then as he was moving house he offered us an opportunity to rent his house in March 2009. We have never had problems before and always pay our rent on time. In fact we get on with him really well and he lives just behind us.

However, when we moved in we had no problems untill we started getting letters through our door from our next door neighbour about being woken up at 2:30 and 5:30am. We tried to resolve it with the neighbour, we speak to her daily and even share mowing the front lawn.

Recently, she threatened us with ‘im going to the owners" and went to our landlords house in tears saying she cant sleep and we keep waking here up. We have a 2 year old daughter, who untill may 2010 was not in a routiene. And she is not quiet when she wakes up for a bottle but we sneak around and make sure shes back to bed as quickly as possible.

However, as the neighbour is best friends with the owners we got issued a section 21 saying we had to leave the property by July 7th without any explaination. We was in tears as we love it here and our landlord said it was because he couldnt afford the mortgage and needed to sell.

After ringing the council it turned out that it was because of anti social behaviour and we had a meeting with the team and landlord and his wife to resolve the situation so we could stay. They found that our house is a new build and vibarations run underneath the floor with a slight shut of the upstairs bedroom door. They concluded that we would stay and that our landlord had 2 fit draft excluders around the door and sort out the lock as the doors were not fitted properly.

Anyway since then we had minimised all noise and our daughter was in bed at 7pm – 8am. Untill this morning a nasty letter was on our doorstep saying that she gets woke up at 5am and shes going to lose her job and has got in touch with the owners again. Thats as our Daughter wakes up for a new bottle and then goes back to sleep as she is currently teething.

We are at the end of our tether. We feel intimidated and like anti social criminals when all we are trying to do is make a better life for our daughter. What can we do and where do we stand? Its so stressful and we just dont need this. Its like our neighbour doesnt understand we hear her and dont complain its a new build its going to happen we cant help we have a 2 year old daughter.

Its like having a spy next door that attention seeks to our landlord to get rid of us

Thanks

Seller is going through a divorce, other half is bankrupt, it’s been 4 months since we’ve been waiting for them to sign the contract as everything from my end has gone through very quickly with no problems.

My solicitor is basically advising me that "these things take time and it’s a complex situation" – all we are waiting for is for the signing to happen but it’s been delayed by the actual end-seller!? To top things off I went past the property today and saw a "For Let" sign next to the "Sold" sign outside the house from a second estate agent.

Any help and advice is much appreciated.
Sorry, to make things worse I’ve incurred nearly £1500 in fees so far of my own money and I really can’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Can I reclaim this money from them and is it illegal to advertise a property for let after it has been listed as sold but the contracts not exchanged.

Sorry if this is a bit long, I will try and explain this as best I can…

My partner’s brother is now in his mid 60’s and is a drug addict. He has been in prison for drug dealing both in the UK and abroad on and off serving approx 10-15 years. He doesn’t drug deal any more but is addicted to them. I am not sure what he is taking, but I think it is Coke and Heroine. He hears voices and shakes uncontrollably, all the time, he has no pride in his appearance and has lost most of his teeth and basically looks a mess.

In his prime he was a very handsome man, he had property, fast cars, a beautiful wife and son. According to my partner, he was incredibly arrogant and rather than work for it like the rest of it, he chose a different path by selling drugs and making alot of money quickly. Well he’s lost everything. He lives with his mother who is in her 80’s. He sleeps during the day and every 2-3 days buys more drugs – we are assuming with money he is getting from benefits (he has not worked since his last stint in prison 12 years ago), OR that his mother gives him some of her pension.

He keeps saying he is going to, as he puts, it "turn a corner" and that he is close to giving up, but these are just empty words. My partner confronted him and said, OK if you’re going to give up, give me a time limit, well of course he couldn’t do that.

is it too late? Can we help him? If so, what can we do if he won’t help himself?

to sell off all this toxic bank debt, why aren’t we doing that????

The biggest reason why the UK, Europe and many other Countries are burdened with exceptionally high levels of public debt is because we have taken on the debt liabilities of our banks.

These debts are mortgaged against commercial, industrial and residential property. We need to get all this property sold off as quickly as possible, even if it means only getting getting half of their previously over-inflated value.

The banks could then write down the losses and the investors who will lose that money will have to accept that as a part of doing business.

It is ridiculous to expect ordinary working-class people to bear the brunt of the excesses of reckless lending. All Governments from Greece to USA should be getting the message: sell, sell, sell…

Spending cuts and Tax increases won’t cut the deficit, we need to sell off all this toxic bank debt, why aren’t we doing that????

The biggest reason why the UK, Europe and many other Countries are burdened with exceptionally high levels of public debt is because we have taken on the debt liabilities of our banks.

These debts are mortgaged against commercial, industrial and residential property. We need to get all this property sold off as quickly as possible, even if it means only getting getting half of their previously over-inflated value.

The banks could then write down the losses and the investors who will lose that money will have to accept that as a part of doing business.

It is ridiculous to expect ordinary working-class people to bear the brunt of the excesses of reckless lending. All Governments from Greece to USA should be getting the message: sell, sell, sell…
You need to read the question Bob…

Please could I have your advice.

For over 30 years my mum was totally devoted to me and my siblings. For 5 years she had the most heartbreaking illness. She become more and more paralyzed and recently passed away. My half-sister had lasting power of attorney. She said that she was going to give herself money from my mum’s account to "cover her expenses". How can I be sure that she didn’t take too much?

Now mum’s flat is being sold *really* quickly on the cheap. I feel this is perhaps not what mum would have wanted because the property value will almost certainly rise in the future.

I am also worried that the flat will be sold for more than the official price. E.g. sold for £180,000 with the rest of the family being told it was only sold for £120,000. The undeclared amount would presumably be split between the solicitor and my sister and her husband (or maybe my sister doesn’t know – with her husband and the solicitor in secret agreement). I am not saying that this is happening but just that I owe it to mum to make sure it doesn’t happen. But I don’t know how. I feel so powerless. Please could I have your advice?