Cats in flats

thatoldchestnut

need_an_answer wrote: »

My genuine advice would be to try and find a freehold property you wont have the constraints of the lease and wont be forever worrying if a near neighbour will object to your pet.


You'll find that even if a lease permits pets the permission can be revoked if there are complaints about your pet.

Would love to do this but we're finding houses in the area we want to move to are well out of our price range (but that's another story), but yes, I agree that would be preferable.

Skippy13

We live in a maisonette and the lease states that we can have a pet providing it doesn't go into the upstairs maisonettes garden. Luckily our neighbour loves him and used to call him over (being a cat he obviously ignored her!). We've now cat proofed the garden so no issues there.

NeilCr

Fire_Fox wrote: »

IIRC blanket 'no pets' clauses are considered unfair terms and thus are not enforceable. BUT do consider that disturbance is not the only issue, a neighbour might have an allergy say.

You might well need formal consent of the freeholder to fit a cat flap (if relevant), and this could reasonably be refused.

A potential buyer has no legal relationship with the freeholder or their managing agent. Generally freeholders/ agents charge the outgoing leaseholder for all the legal work of transferring the lease, inc. supplying documents.

Check out the Leasehold Advisory Service website, and do choose a conveyancer that specialises in leasehold properties.

HTH!

I think it's been discussed (started by Labour I believe?) making blanket no pets clauses illegal but afaik anyway, nothing is in place

I am not quite sure about the legal relationship with the freeholder. Others better versed than me can advise - but, I do know that we have covenants (including a pet one) on our properties and it us, as freeholders, who say yay or nay and, when it comes to it, have to enforce the covenants.

Kim_kim

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Some breeds of cat(e.g. Ragdoll) shouldn't be allowed out. We have 2 of them and they are quite happy being indoors.

Why shouldn’t Ragdolls go outside?

TadleyBaggie

Kim_kim wrote: »

Why shouldn’t Ragdolls go outside?

They have had all their survival instincts bred out of them, they wouldn't survive is they got lost.

Murphybear

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Some breeds of cat(e.g. Ragdoll) shouldn't be allowed out. We have 2 of them and they are quite happy being indoors.

Any pictures? I love that type of cat (eg Maine Coons, Norwegian Forest cats)

Murphybear

When the time has arrived to get a cat go to Cats Protection or Blue Cross. They will be able to advise you on the type of cat that will happily live indoors.