Strange & Unusual Houses

[Mountain Goat]

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/ ... el=RES_BUY

What could possibly be wrong with this Grade 2 listed Jacobean hall? Nothing, except the teeny tiny matter of a lodger still in situ above the garage. :lol:

[Hazey_Jane]

Oh that is well lush.

[emma_p]

Wow, I love it so much (with different non-beige decor). Very Saltburn :lol:

It's so cheap (relatively speaking) too. Maybe the lodger is the grounds person so would be handy to have around.

[Princess Morripov]

Rolling AST would give me the shudders. That screams that they pay about 20p in rent and will be impossible to remove without a lengthy court battle costing circa £30k and at least 1 year of your life.

House and grounds are lovely though :))

[Little My]

They have people in the cottage too, which is a separate sale. It seems straight forward that you can kick them out in 6 weeks, but perhaps I'm being naive. :))

Gorgeous house though! Not a great deal of interior shots, which makes me suspicious.

[Texaco Shirley]

Mockbeggars Hall? They sound nice :lol:

[ParisGal]

Gorgeous house though! Not a great deal of interior shots, which makes me suspicious.

Yes. Have they staged the rooms in the photos and the rest are decrepit and rotten?

[Mountain Goat]

Agreed, and also I look at a lot of expensive houses around there/here and that's suspiciously cheap. Also it's a scenario straight from the opening of a horror film where the family have a great deal on a massive old house. :lol:

[Little My]

I was thinking it would make a great thriller too. Complete with creepy groundsman living there. It reminds me of a Hammer Horror film actually, where a couple's car breaks down and they end up in a house like that where vampire children live, iirc.

[Mountain Goat]

I would very much hope that if you did try to serve notice on the elderly groundsman, you'd get a whole scenario of "there's always been Sluggertons at Mockbeggars Hall, since the time of King James, there has. And they do say, down in the village, that when the Sluggertons leave Mockbeggars Hall, the dogs they will come a barking. Oh and wouldn't that be a pretty pass, Ma Sluggerton", addressing the empty chair that is quietly rocking in the corner. :))

[Princess Morripov]

They have people in the cottage too, which is a separate sale. It seems straight forward that you can kick them out in 6 weeks, but perhaps I'm being naive. :))

Defo naive :)) In the UK if you serve someone notice (I think it’s 6+ months if it’s not a section 8) and if they don’t want to leave, you then have to apply to court, wait for a date (sometimes 6 months plus), then when they do rule in your favour, it’s 2-12 weeks dependant on circs for the tenant to vacate, but they don’t *have* to, and then once that date has expired you then have to go back to court/instruct bailiffs, which is usually another couple of months or so. And that’s without the state they’ve left the property in, alongside probably not paying rent for months once you start the process. It’s a mega nightmare, takes forever and costs £££.

11/10 swerve, I’d keep that 1.4mil for something else, maybe with a pool, view and no sitting tenants. Bargain be not :lol:

[Morganna]

Goat :lol:

[ParisGal]

They have people in the cottage too, which is a separate sale. It seems straight forward that you can kick them out in 6 weeks, but perhaps I'm being naive. :))

Defo naive :)) In the UK if you serve someone notice (I think it’s 6+ months if it’s not a section 8) and if they don’t want to leave, you then have to apply to court, wait for a date (sometimes 6 months plus), then when they do rule in your favour, it’s 2-12 weeks dependant on circs for the tenant to vacate, but they don’t *have* to, and then once that date has expired you then have to go back to court/instruct bailiffs, which is usually another couple of months or so. And that’s without the state they’ve left the property in, alongside probably not paying rent for months once you start the process. It’s a mega nightmare, takes forever and costs £££.

11/10 swerve, I’d keep that 1.4mil for something else, maybe with a pool, view and no sitting tenants. Bargain be not :lol:

But there IS a pool. Bet you'll reconsider now!

[Princess Morripov]

Oh! Well then, I'm in. :lol:

[emma_p]

S's brother bought a bargain terraced house that had been converted into two flats complete with sitting tenant in the upstairs flat. He paid her off and converted it back into a house. It might not be an issue at all!

[Texaco Shirley]

My parents were only able to afford their house due to a sitting tenant. They had to wait for her to die before they could convert it to a single house but at least it gave them time to save up :))

[Little My]

Oh god! I'm just imaging the back and forth on that. "Exactly how old is she?"

I swear that house said there was a 6 week termination period for tenants. But maybe that is in theory rather than practice, or just complete lies.

[Princess Morripov]

There will be in theory, but whether they actually leave is another matter :)) and then that’s when you get stuck into a long-winded battle. But maybe not if the tenant is old and infirm :lol:

[sally maclennane]

Oh god! I'm just imaging the back and forth on that. "Exactly how old is she?"

Asking her every week "and how are you feeling, Mary? Any health problems? Hmm? " :lol:

[Duophonic]

'forgetting' to salt the shared path in the winter.

A few years back I looked at a house locally with a huge garden, great views and it ticked every box. The major issue was they'd previously tried to sell but there was a parking space that was accessed via a path too and from the garden, the path was owned by the next-door neighbour and they'd been all sorts of legal action to get them to sell but to no avail. The earlier house sale had fallen through, and it was relisted a year later.

I know the person that has now purchased and living in the house, they don't own the access path to their designated parking space so it was removed from the bill of sale and part of garden too. They went from buying a house with large wooded garden to a postage stamp of a garden and all sorts of legal issues when they in turn go to sell.

I would be running a mile from any purchase that is occupied or anything legal that would cause problems in the future.