17 Mar 2009 12:00 AM:
Hi Folks
In July last year we took on board a 2 bedroom apartment which was nearing completion on a rent to buy contract with a view of running it as a holiday rental business.
Now when we signed up the economy was in a much better state and the whole project would have been very viable due to the apartments location however the true value of the apartment has now almost halved but the price of the apartment still remains as it was last year due to the contract.
The apartment is now almost ready and the final contract will be ready for signing in the next 6 - 8 weeks when we collect the keys
The problem is that we now find ourselves in a position where once the renting period of 4 years has passed and the time comes to purchase the apartment the property value even with an optimistic rate of recovery would be at a level where we would have to find a large sum of cash before even the most generous bank would look at a mortgage application. This means that we realistically we will not be able to buy the apartment and after a lot of number crunching etc we would now like to pull out of the of the apartment as its not going to be worth it financially for us
Before we contact the builder to inform them of our intention does anyone have any recommendations of anybody preferably a solictitor etc that could just have a quick look at our contract signed last year and advise whether we can pull out, whether we would have any chance in getting in getting our €6.000 deposit back and just general advice on our position. I have a pdf version of the document so therefore it could be emailed
If anyone can recommend or would be kind enough to look at it please PM me
Thanks
Steve
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Help Needed With Contract
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