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CREATE open-plan living space, as this is high on the must-have list of many buyers, particularly families and people who like to entertain. Extending into the side return, building a rear extension and/or knocking two rooms into one, typically a separate kitchen and dining room, is a good way to create the open-plan kitchen-diner/family room so many of us love. TURN a one-bedroom property into a two bed. If you can add damage before they go! You can always seek to recover any such losses from the tenants after they’ve gone, although this is obviously far from ideal.

fees. However giving her house to you may just present a new set of problems. She should discuss this with her solicitor.