What's the strangest clause you've seen in a tenancy/property agreement?

Annisele

This isn't exactly daft, but I had one with a clause about keeping the chimney (in a purpose built 1990s flat) regularly swept.

It was a long time ago, and before I had any idea that there was such a thing as a standard contract - so I'm sat in the estate agent on the morning I was due to move in, asking where the chimney is and how do you sweep chimneys in a flat and how expensive is it to do that. There was mutual miscomprehension - unsurprisingly they thought I was being deliberately difficult, and it hadn't occurred to them that I could have really thought there was a chimney in a flat. I thought they were being dismissive of my reasonable concerns - nobody had told me about being responsible for a chimney, and obviously the contract wouldn't say I had to sweep it if it didn't exist. In the end they crossed out the offending clause, plus one a bit later about mowing the lawn (in the same nth floor flat).

Slinky

I've posted about this one before. Has the dual inconveniences of including a windmill the local council rent at 25p a year from the owners, and the vendors of the property retain ownership of a parcel of land within the garden on which they will install a memorial bench and require access to visit.

https://media.onthemarket.com/properties/4172813/497708537/document-0.pdf

White_rose

I’m not allowed to dry my washing in my front garden. But the back garden is fine. 

Or keep a coach on the drive way. Bearing in mind the drive way is barely big enough to park a small car, I’d love to see someone try! 

lookstraightahead

No lingering cooking smells, eg, fish.

deedee71

My title deeds say I'm only allowed one cat and one dog 

Debt

At a rental I once had:
"Do not remove ice from inside the fridge with a sharp object"

Obviously as things had happened in the past, they had just been added to the contract.

seven-day-weekend

We have a freehold bungalow and we are not allowed to sell alcoholic beverages.

TripleH

Sell the bottles but give the beverages away free?

bargainbetty

My favourite was in a commercial lease at one of the Inns of Court in central London. I was organising offices for a US law firm and the Inn had a clause that stated the property may not be used as a chip shop or a brothel. 

I always wondered who had tried to open either establishment there.... 

Murphybear

Flugelhorn said:

we are looking at one at the moment that doesn't allow fencing in the property

Better find another sport then