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The Survivor's Guide to Buying a Freehold: Unlock the Potential of Your Home - Enfranchisement Explained for Owners of Leasehold PropertySnagging.org In association with Amazon.co.ukOnline Shop | Property Guides | Kitchen & Home | Garden Tools | Power Tools | Consumer Electronics Get the Snagging Checklist Here! The Survivor's Guide to Buying a Freehold: Unlock the Potential of Your Home - Enfranchisement Explained for Owners of Leasehold Property by: Kat Callo  List Price: £11.99 Amazon.co.uk's Price: £7.99 You Save: £4.00 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackEAN: 9781905261109 ISBN: 1905261101 Label: Lawpack Publishing Ltd Manufacturer: Lawpack Publishing Ltd Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: July 13, 2006 Publisher: Lawpack Publishing Ltd Studio: Lawpack Publishing Ltd Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Buying a FreeholdThis is a pretty useful book. Kat Callo clearly has a comprehensive understanding and the experience of a wealth of case studies. It would be a great introduction for someone thinking of buying their freehold. The book is designed more for the reader who shares their freehold with a large number of other residents - such as a large mansion block - rather than, say, the reader who lives in a Victorian terraced house that has been converted into only 3 flats. Early on, the purchase process is likened to a marathon race for which you, the reader, must rigorously train. Unfortunately, this metaphor is rather tired by the end of chapter 1, but Kat Callo tediously extends it through the entirety of the book. It is both monotonous and mildly condescending. The book is somewhat repetitive, and feels a little strung out. Rather like the trend in television for summaries after each commercial break - for the benefit of the channel surfers who keep dipping in and out - each chapter has an introduction, a development and a conclusion. So the method of the author is 'Say what you are going to say, then say it, then say that you've said it'. The text is also interspersed with 'top tips' which are small summaries for those who don't want to read the minutiae. The book is best approached, then, not to be read from cover to cover, but to be dipped into as a work of reference. There is a lot of useful information in the appendices at the back, including some horrendous stories about how ruthless and devious landlords can be. The tables for calculating compound interest when working out the estimated cost of your freehold are very unhelpful, because the figures for a lease with more than 25 years to go are not provided. Rating:  - Everything you need to know......Excellent book - how refreshing to read a Leasehold property book that makes such a complicated subject so easy to understand. With this and Kat Callo's earlier book you have all you need if you are looking to enfranchise the block of flats or apartments you live in. It is a great book to pick up and put down and is very easy to reference when looking for something specific - Kat explains the processes and possible pit falls so plainly and in a 'straight forward' forward manner that is so refreshing - a must read book!!  Try searching the Internet for "The Survivor's Guide to Buying a Freehold: Unlock the Potential of Your Home - Enfranchisement Explained for Owners of Leasehold Property" or Ebay for "The Survivor's Guide to Buying a Freehold: Unlock the Potential of Your Home - Enfranchisement Explained for Owners of Leasehold Property". You might also be interested in the following great products:
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