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Thread		Flying Freehold advice
at 17:02 29 Mar 2021

Apologies in advance, the background to this is a bit of a ramble but I've tried to keep it as concise as possible.

I'm in the process of a house move down to Somerset and just wanted to guage the LFW faithful's opinion on a flying freehold issue I've got on the new house. The background is that the property was bought at auction by a developer (in January 2020) and extended and renovated. We loved it and put in an offer of five grand over the asking price which was accepted to secure it.

The house is one of ten semi-detached properties in a cul de sac and all houses were originally (about 140 years ago) built the same. The property to the right of each semi (our house) has a front bedroom that has a very small flying freehold (about 50 square feet) over the entrance porch of the neighbouring property. Conversely the house on the left next door has a bedroom at the back that has a flying freehold over part of our kitchen and utility room.

The sale has been taking a bit longer than expected particularly as this property is empty and our buyers don't have anything to sell (buy to let). Because it had been taking a while (we had the offer accepted a week before Christmas) and not much progress was seeming to be made, a couple of weeks ago our vendor was getting a bit fidgety and was threatening to remarket the house (we haven't exchanged contracts yet) unless there was some good progress which there since has been.

Our solicitors have told us that when he bought it, he bought blind, probably didn't read the legal pack (cannot 100% confirm that) and wasn't aware re the flying freehold issue as there wasn't any legal agreement in place with the neighbours. He initially suggested an indemnity insurance policy for the flying freehold issue which some lenders accept and other houses in the road have used. His solicitors and mine said a new deed of covenant would have to be drawn up but this would also need to be agreed with the neighbours as well. He has had to pay Β£1200 to his solicitors for this extra work and the neighbours have engaged solicitors who are requesting Β£2000 for their bit.

Sorry for the long ramble but to cut a long story short, we received an email from the vendor's agent today with a request from the vendor for a 50% contribution for the neighbour's legal costs (Β£1000).
Do we 1) Flat out refuse this request because he hadn't done due diligence when buying or 2) given that we haven't exchanged contracts yet, do we offer a smaller (say 25%) amount as a goodwill gesture to keep him onside and not threaten to remarket the property? I have emailed my solicitor about this in the meantime and am awaiting a response.

Thanks in advance guys.

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Thread		Jimmy Carter
at 08:38 16 Mar 2021

No, not the former American president, but our erstwhile late 80s reserve team winger. From a couple of months ago but hadn't seen it before. An interesting article I thought.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/55536025
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Thread		Brief Sky Highlights
at 18:26 20 Feb 2021

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/championship/
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Thread		Field
at 22:14 17 Feb 2021

First player to score on his debut against Brentford in 60 years
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Thread		Everton v Fulham
at 21:06 14 Feb 2021

Fulham finally win a league game at Goodison Park for the first time in their history. Broken a run of 22 consecutive league defeats there stretching back to 1959!



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Thread		Charlie
at 21:59 1 Feb 2021

Quickest to 50 goals since Clive Allen. Love the guy.
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Thread		QPR on Fridays
at 16:23 17 Sep 2020

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Thread		2020/21 Squad Numbers
at 16:51 4 Sep 2020

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Thread		QPR - The Adidas Years Pt 3
at 15:03 13 Aug 2020

Pt 3 of the thread I posted aeons ago this time dealing with 1983 onwards.

https://museumofjerseys.com/2020/08/05/qpr-the-adidas-years-part-3/

Pt 2 here if people are interested which also has a link to Pt 1 if people haven't seen it before.
https://museumofjerseys.com/2019/12/05/queens-park-rangers-the-adidas-years-part

Also found out the answer to the riddle posed on the Pt 2 thread of why Middlesbrough wore our rarely worn third kit Dundee United style Adidas shirt in early 1983 at LR. It turns out they packed their normal home shirt but it was the one with a sponsor on it and not the sponsorless shirt usually used for televised games. Shirt sponsorship was allowed for televised games from the following season.
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Thread		1993 Toulon Tournament Winners
at 21:33 21 Apr 2020

England's 1993 U-21 Toulon Tournament winners. Name them.

One answer per person please.

[Post edited 21 Apr 2020 21:34]
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Thread		This day, 38 years ago
at 12:40 6 Mar 2020

This happened. Great times.

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Thread		Eze
at 07:45 29 Jan 2020

Badly needs a rest, the boy must be knackered. He's only missed the two League Cup games and the FA Cup game against Swansea and played every other. Of those other games he has only really been subbed with significant time still remaining in the game (at least 20 minutes) in two of them and the only other time was subbed was in the 87th minute against Preston.

As I said on the match thread, if he's not careful, Warburton will repeat McClaren's stunt of flogging him into the ground rendering him far less effective.

Thoughts?
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Thread		RIP Neil Innes
at 23:00 30 Dec 2019

Can't believe nobody's mentioned this yet. Very sad news. Those songs he composed for The Rutles verged on genius and he was also brilliant in 'The Innes Book Of Records' and not forgetting his early days in The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.

My personal favourite:


This one at the beginning says a big fΓΊck you to Noel Gallagher who he successfully sued for plaigirism for ripping off his song 'How Sweet To Be An Idiot' on Oasis' 'Whatever'

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Thread		QPR - The Adidas Years Part 2
at 11:48 16 Dec 2019

Part 2 of the thread I posted a few months ago this time focusing on the years 1979-1982.

https://museumofjerseys.com/2019/12/05/queens-park-rangers-the-adidas-years-part
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Thread		Hughes favourite for Watford job
at 06:39 3 Dec 2019

Our old friend Leslie is suddenly in line for the Vicarage Road hot seat...



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Thread		Watford sack Sanchez Flores
at 13:12 1 Dec 2019

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50619972
[Post edited 1 Dec 2019 13:14]
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Thread		Today's goals
at 17:29 21 Sep 2019

https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/competitions/championship/
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