can residential management company make me get rid of a pet, as the homeowner?

LEJC

seashore22 wrote: »

You're right. I am curious though.

Fair enough....but I would suggest that if the OP is to take up the offer of posting a picture it's sent by PM rather than posting it across an open forum....lets not forget the OP is a new user and as such might not want all the world to see their property ....or at least not without knowing what and where they are posting

jigglypuff66

Thanks LEJC for bringing the discussion back on track.
To have understood this properly I need to ask my conveyancers (docs when I purchased) whether or not I can allow the cat to remain with my tennant ?

Red-Squirrel_2

jigglypuff66 wrote: »

Thanks LEJC for bringing the discussion back on track.
To have understood this properly I need to ask my conveyancers (docs when I purchased) whether or not I can allow the cat to remain with my tennant ?

You don't need to ask anybody, you just need to read your documents.

seashore22

Penitent wrote: »

It sounds like this kind of arrangement:

https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/44209112
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/44404869
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/44150252

So you have two front doors right next to each other. If you live in the ground floor flat, you open your door and walk straight in. If you live in the upstairs flat, you open the door onto a set of stairs which lead up into your flat.

If this is right then I know what the op is talking about. In fact we lived in something similar, but all maisonettes were on one level. The op appears to have multiple levels to his home.

Sorry for the tangent. Best to get back on topic I suppose.

seashore22

You must have documents op.

So is it freehold (don't see how it can be), share of freehold or leasehold? Surely you know?

Edit - I guess this may be irrelevant too. Only leasehold or management company documents would really help.

teddysmum

Penitent wrote: »

You also get ones that have a single level flat on the bottom and a two level maisonette on top.

My sister once rented a maisonette in that configuration, but the maisonettes had doors onto a communal walkway, with two flights of concrete steps to ground level.


This block had a no pets rule, though my sister and others had dogs, which the owners didn't mind provided that any damage was put right on leaving.


However, I can see a point in not allowing outdoor cats as the stairways stank of urine. (In this case the problem may be that the gardeners do not want to have to deal with animal excrement, beyond the unavoidable by cats from elsewhere.


A way round could be to replace the door (about £400)and have an indoor cat, which no one need know about.

jigglypuff66

you've all been very helpful. thankyou

Polly05

So, I'm in Scotland and don't really understand leasehold things but, even if it was written into the leasehold rules that you can't have pets, how would the management company paid to take care of the common ground even know what's in their lease documents?
Surely it's the management company paperwork the OP should be reading through?

I think its shocking that there are rules that you can't have pets in a property that u own!

Slithery

Polly05 wrote: »

I think its shocking that there are rules that you can't have pets in a property that u own!

That's the thing though, if it's a leasehold property then you don't actually own it, you're just renting it long-term.

eddddy

Polly05 wrote: »

So, I'm in Scotland and don't really understand leasehold things but, even if it was written into the leasehold rules that you can't have pets, how would the management company paid to take care of the common ground even know what's in their lease documents?
Surely it's the management company paperwork the OP should be reading through?

No - it's the lease that the OP needs to read for rules (covenants) about keeping pets.

It sounds like the OP has a very standard leasehold arrangement (for England and Wales). Nothing at all unusual.