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Help estate agents mess up place is over 60s only

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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    googler wrote: »
    How is this relevant to the OP's situation?

    I was trying to point out that care needs to be taken with retirement homes.
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  • Fire_Fox
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    I wouldn't bank on getting the lease varied and it is not really fair to the other leaseholders to ask for that to happen. If they bought into a place full of over 60s they clearly don't want to live next door to BTLs, couples with a screaming baby or people that leave for work at 5am and leave their engine running to warm up the car.
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  • thelem
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    edited 27 September 2012 at 12:16AM
    Fire_Fox wrote: »
    ...If they bought into a place full of over 60s they clearly don't want to live next door to BTLs, couples with a screaming baby...

    I would imagine the biggest attraction of places like this would be the onsite warden and related services like daily phone calls, catering and a community room. IF it's no longer being run as a retirement development then those services will have stopped anyway, and a younger resident moving in is likely to be the least of their worries.

    You clearly need to get to the bottom of whether it is still being operated as a retirement village or not. That should be fairly simple for your solicitor to check, or just go round there yourself and look for the warden's office etc. If it's not, then I don't see why there would be any objections to altering the lease, for a fee of course.
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  • missile
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    johnnyloco wrote: »
    that part I don't know, its currently unnocupied and I never met the sellor.

    There's even another flat in the block currently being offered to rent on rightmove...

    http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-34973470.html

    I have never seen a flat to let to all comers in a retirement development. This would tend to suggest that any restriction on your flat can be removed.
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