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Mild Curiosity Question: Turning this home into a place for letting out rooms

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  • lincroft1710
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    RHemmings said:
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    It wouldn't be very private for the couple on the ground floor, having their bathroom accessed via a communal hallway

    If I - hopefully not - end up on the market again it would be me living on the ground floor. And, I'd be fine with that. No naked run to the bedroom is not too much of a privation. :smile:
    My comment was a general one, I was not thinking of anyone in particular. Many people would not find it an ideal situation. May have been the norm in the days of "Rising Damp", but that was 50 years ago and most landlords would nowadays want their privacy.
    The snipping tool is not the right tool for graphics. But, maybe this would solve the privacy issue a bit. 


    With a return on the stairs half way up (probably 1.5m from the floor), you wouldn't be able to put a door where you suggest.

    Hmmm... A front door into the kitchen would definitely make for two separate properties as they would have their own front doors. 
    Still wouldn't work because you either have the bathroom isolated or the problem with the stairs
    I may be thinking of a different door that would be impossible because of the stairs. 
    There is a way of making this work BUT it would mean cutting a chunk off Bed 5
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • RHemmings
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    RHemmings said:
    RHemmings said:
    FreeBear said:
    RHemmings said:
    RHemmings said:


    It wouldn't be very private for the couple on the ground floor, having their bathroom accessed via a communal hallway

    If I - hopefully not - end up on the market again it would be me living on the ground floor. And, I'd be fine with that. No naked run to the bedroom is not too much of a privation. :smile:
    My comment was a general one, I was not thinking of anyone in particular. Many people would not find it an ideal situation. May have been the norm in the days of "Rising Damp", but that was 50 years ago and most landlords would nowadays want their privacy.
    The snipping tool is not the right tool for graphics. But, maybe this would solve the privacy issue a bit. 


    With a return on the stairs half way up (probably 1.5m from the floor), you wouldn't be able to put a door where you suggest.

    Hmmm... A front door into the kitchen would definitely make for two separate properties as they would have their own front doors. 
    Still wouldn't work because you either have the bathroom isolated or the problem with the stairs
    I may be thinking of a different door that would be impossible because of the stairs. 
    There is a way of making this work BUT it would mean cutting a chunk off Bed 5
    Yes, I was thinking that. But, this is only a thought exercise in any case. It's useful however if I do end up back on the market as I can think about what privacy there will be and any mods to make it happen. Or, simply not worry about it. 
  • Grumpy_chap
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    RHemmings said:

    But, I'm curious what people might think about the following suggestion for this house:

    https://www.williamhbrown.co.uk/properties/17555366/sales/LHS117576

    Five bedrooms for only £260k.  That is a massive amount of house for not much money.
    That is what I think.
  • RHemmings
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    RHemmings said:

    But, I'm curious what people might think about the following suggestion for this house:

    https://www.williamhbrown.co.uk/properties/17555366/sales/LHS117576

    Five bedrooms for only £260k.  That is a massive amount of house for not much money.
    That is what I think.
    It's in one of the cheaper areas of Leicester. There are others with five bedrooms in a slightly better area here for about £280-300K. 
  • RHemmings
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    Maybe the ground floor could become George and Mildred Roper's living space if it was like this. 


  • lincroft1710
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    RHemmings said:
    Maybe the ground floor could become George and Mildred Roper's living space if it was like this. 


    But you still have the problem of walking beneath the low headroom stairs!
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • RHemmings
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    RHemmings said:
    Maybe the ground floor could become George and Mildred Roper's living space if it was like this. 


    But you still have the problem of walking beneath the low headroom stairs!
    Remove them and put in a spiral staircase like the one in a terraced property near me. In that one, the entire ground floor became open space with just one spiral staircase heading up. 
  • lincroft1710
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    RHemmings said:
    RHemmings said:
    Maybe the ground floor could become George and Mildred Roper's living space if it was like this. 


    But you still have the problem of walking beneath the low headroom stairs!
    Remove them and put in a spiral staircase like the one in a terraced property near me. In that one, the entire ground floor became open space with just one spiral staircase heading up. 
    Best of luck with that one going up 3 floors. Don't think they're really suitable for HMOs
    If you are querying your Council Tax band would you please state whether you are in England, Scotland or Wales
  • RHemmings
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    edited 11 November 2023 at 7:50PM
    RHemmings said:
    RHemmings said:
    Maybe the ground floor could become George and Mildred Roper's living space if it was like this. 


    But you still have the problem of walking beneath the low headroom stairs!
    Remove them and put in a spiral staircase like the one in a terraced property near me. In that one, the entire ground floor became open space with just one spiral staircase heading up. 
    Best of luck with that one going up 3 floors. Don't think they're really suitable for HMOs
    Agreed - they aren't really suitable. To be honest this thread past the point of 'lack of privacy for the LLs' is even more of a thought exercise than it was at the start. As I wouldn't be bothered by lodgers walking through and past living spaces of mine. I just liked the idea of a personal kitchen really. 
  • RHemmings said:
    Is it still an HMO if the owner lives in it and rents out rooms? I wasn't thinking that it would be two dwellings, but a single dwelling with rooms rented out. But, of course, if the law classes that as an HMO, it is. 


    It is possible for a resident landlord to create a HMO with lodgers.  In England (and possibly Wales) ,if the resident landlord had 3 (unrelated) lodgers that would create a HMO and if the resident landlord had 4 (unrelated) lodgers living as two separate households, excluding the landlord's own household, then it would be a licensable HMO.  Should the property be in a council area with selective licensing then it's possible for a resident landlord to create a licensable HMO with fewer lodgers.
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