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Problems with the In-Laws and Parking

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  • momoyama
    momoyama Posts: 659 Forumite
    RAS wrote: »
    What is the actual ownership and access situation regarding the log-cabin? Any restrictions on sale?

    Classed as a mobile home
    3 x quoted cost (dodgy builder)
    Not finished
    Owned by us in the same way that you would own a caravan
    Land belongs to parents

    Yes, it could be split in two and craned away, if anyone would buy it.
  • Starrystarrynight
    Starrystarrynight Posts: 1,041 Forumite
    Do your local council know your wife is disabled, OP? Here, that is a huge factor in moving up the housing list. Not sure if all local authorities are the same, though.
    From Starrystarrynight to Starrystarrynight1 and now I'm back...don't have a clue how!
  • ecgirl07
    ecgirl07 Posts: 662 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Whats stopping you from just parking in front of your mobile home? You have a footprint for a "garden" can you not turn this into parking spaces?
  • Gigglepig
    Gigglepig Posts: 1,270 Forumite
    Is it an option to look for a plot of land elsewhere and move the mobile home?
  • momoyama
    momoyama Posts: 659 Forumite
    ecgirl07 wrote: »
    Whats stopping you from just parking in front of your mobile home?

    The in-laws houses!
  • theoretica
    theoretica Posts: 12,691 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Is the layby, which is now a garden, private land or council road?
    But a banker, engaged at enormous expense,
    Had the whole of their cash in his care.
    Lewis Carroll
  • duchy
    duchy Posts: 19,511 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker Xmas Saver!
    Why not rent out your home and rent somewhere else closer to work and away from family ?
    I Would Rather Climb A Mountain Than Crawl Into A Hole

    MSE Florida wedding .....no problem
  • momoyama
    momoyama Posts: 659 Forumite
    theoretica wrote: »
    Is the layby, which is now a garden, private land or council road?



    Private. Belongs to brother in law
  • jellie
    jellie Posts: 884 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper
    momoyama wrote: »
    3 x quoted cost (dodgy builder)
    Not finished
    Land belongs to parents.
    momoyama wrote: »
    Her father's a builder and has a fair bit of land. On that land he built us a log cabin.

    So her own father shafted her on the cost of the cabin as well?
    momoyama wrote: »
    So I have to call my wife, wake her or disturb her to move her car somewhere else that the family will ruefully accept so as I can park. I hate doing this but there's nothing else I can do.

    Could you move your wife's car yourself, to save her having to get out of bed?
  • momoyama
    momoyama Posts: 659 Forumite
    jellie wrote: »
    So her own father shafted her on the cost of the cabin as well?
    Yup. Notorious dodgy builder and bad debtor. I now know.

    jellie wrote: »
    Could you move your wife's car yourself, to save her having to get out of bed?
    Where do I put my car whilst I'm doing this? We're on a dodgy bend. I 'll endeavour to upload a picture after work tomorrow. And putting wife's car down the driveway would surely cause an argument.
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