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

alanm_4

Not tenancy, but restriction on land use on freehold of house we used to live in - not permitted to hold a circus or travelling fair in the garden

martindow

acranea said:

I once rented a ground floor flat at the rear of a house with access to a back yard & entry. There were 2 noteworthy clauses in the tenancy agreement. They prohibited:

a) The provision of any sexual services

b) Any activity relating to the practice of Satanism (!)

I spent 4 years wondering who the hell had lived there before me !

... and did you comply with these clauses? ...

wongasaver

A clause that had my wife and I laughing out loud when our solicitor was going through the purchase contract was - we were not allowed to have a permanent erection in the garden.!!! He very politely said that it was referring to sheds and similar, but as young newly-weds, I'm afraid we thought of something else.

Ditzy_Mitzy

My lease agreement has a clause prohibiting the parking of tractors in the communal car park.

robatwork

acranea said:

I once rented a ground floor flat at the rear of a house with access to a back yard & entry. There were 2 noteworthy clauses in the tenancy agreement. They prohibited:

a) The provision of any sexual services

b) Any activity relating to the practice of Satanism (!)

I spent 4 years wondering who the hell had lived there before me !

Was in in Streatham?

anita116

MSE_Laura_F said:

After reading a thread that mentions a freehold with the clause 'no playing piano in the garden', I wondered,

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

We were not allowed to burn bones in the garden!

Skiddaw1

acranea said:

I once rented a ground floor flat at the rear of a house with access to a back yard & entry. There were 2 noteworthy clauses in the tenancy agreement. They prohibited:

a) The provision of any sexual services

b) Any activity relating to the practice of Satanism (!)

I spent 4 years wondering who the hell had lived there before me !

Hell being the operative word!

Jenni_D

martindow said:

LAD917 said:

No waterbeds used to be a very common clause in virtually every US lease - and it was enforceable there.

I can imagine that the weight of a water bed is enormous and maybe some floors are not sufficiently strong to bear them.

I guess it depend on whether the waterbed (mattress) was in a frame or directly on the floor. (Directly on the floor would mean the force was spread over a much larger area than within a frame, where the force is concentrated on the feet of the frame).

I imagine the clause is more to do with the potential for water damage should the bed leak.  

Murphybear

martindow said:

LAD917 said:

No waterbeds used to be a very common clause in virtually every US lease - and it was enforceable there.

I can imagine that the weight of a water bed is enormous and maybe some floors are not sufficiently strong to bear them.

No, even cheaply made houses are ok.  The weight of a waterbed is spread out over the whole area of the bed.  We had one for years and never had a problem 

meinbrighton

I wasn't allowed to run a Boys' School from my first house.