Rent a house to buy a house?

beingjdc

spinks wrote: »

Do you allow the tenants in your house to bend the rules to suit themselves. If it has been stipulated that no pets allowed then it is rather unfair on the landlord that you should have a cat. I thought you would see the logic in that being a landlord yourself.

In point of fact, blanket "no pets" clauses are in breach of the Unfair Terms In Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, so no worries :j

speedtwin

Permission not to be withheld without good reason (or words to that afact) is normally used in contracts. So if the owner was allergic to cats and was planning to move back at a later date permission could be withheld.

fc123

mercman1969 wrote: »

Thanks for all the advise. We would love to top up but in last 4 years have,

Started a business
had a child - now 28 mths
Wife had to give up her career and good salary to work in the business - that in itself would not be a problem, however daughter has been really poorly and hence wife hardly in the business so no salary - hence why we do not want to top up the mortgage

Would love more info fc123 - we wish to move as we need to be in an area to allow daughter to go to the school we want her in - so more or less a relocation

Regards

Hi...sorry just had to respond to the post about cat....ooooh the judgement on this part of the forum is painful sometimes....anyway......

spinks

beingjdc wrote: »

In point of fact, blanket "no pets" clauses are in breach of the Unfair Terms In Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, so no worries :j

Who said anything about a clause?

Surely a landlord should have a right to say if he wants six goats and 20 sheep running around his house!

A landlord cannot unreasonably withold permission but the tenant should at least make a request and get permission in writing.

I personally don't have much respect for tenants who feel they need to do things underhandedly. I have always found if you play fair with them then they will do the same with me.

But, no doubt the day will come when somebody will bite the hands thats feeds them.

fc123

mercman1969 wrote: »

Thanks for all the advise. We would love to top up but in last 4 years have,

Started a business
had a child - now 28 mths
Wife had to give up her career and good salary to work in the business - that in itself would not be a problem, however daughter has been really poorly and hence wife hardly in the business so no salary - hence why we do not want to top up the mortgage

Would love more info fc123 - we wish to move as we need to be in an area to allow daughter to go to the school we want her in - so more or less a relocation

Regards

Sorry, am back to finish...real life keeps butting in........OK I'm going to read between the lines...............Schools.....................
I am an "expert" at being failed by our schools system...catchment areas etc etc!I am also a DFW (no...it didn't get spent on profligate spending) but the school thing is my forte.

I post the following from my own personal experience and it is not political or judgemental or ANYTHING....it is just what we did...and I think, now, with hindsight, we did the right thing at the time.

We saved and bought to escape the high rise from hell (son was 3).He went to local primary but not a great area (as we couldn't afford a "good" area).We moved him into a private school aged 8 (too many reasons to say why here)
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beingjdc

spinks wrote: »

Who said anything about a clause?

The person who said they have an illegal cat. It presumably says "no pets" in their contract, otherwise what's illegal about the cat?

Surely a landlord should have a right to say if he wants six goats and 20 sheep running around his house!

This is a bit of an extreme example, but as for other pets, why should the landlord? They have rented their house out. They can have it back at the end of the time period, and they have a deposit against it not being in an appropriate condition. In the meantime, it's the tenant's.

Nobody says you can't use a hire car to take your pets to the vet! The point of paying for the use of something is that you in fact have the use of it...

fc123

fc123 wrote: »

Sorry, am back to finish...real life keeps butting in........OK I'm going to read between the lines...............Schools.....................I am an "expert" at being failed by our schools system...catchment areas etc etc!I am also a DFW (no...it didn't get spent on profligate spending) but the school thing is my forte.I post the following from my own personal experience and it is not political or judgemental or ANYTHING....it is just what we did...and I think, now, with hindsight, we did the right thing at the time.We saved and bought to escape the high rise from hell (son was 3).He went to local primary but not a great area (as we couldn't afford a "good" area).We moved him into a private school aged 8 (too many reasons to say why here)

Sorry...i clicked submit by accident!!!!

Anyway....where was i...???..We could only afford one set of fees at a time...so daughter went to state primary in diff area (we had moved by then)...

it was OK at the time.Son went off to uni...we had the whole secondary issue for dd. As we needed to re-locate to be near our core business I was so excited as she could get a great state secondary ,.....except, they said "no"

to cut a long traumatic story short...we "had "to pay....her only choice of school was 7 miles away and with a pass rate of 25% at GCSE...we were, again, battling between our financial problems, our socialist values and the education of our only daughter.

We cannot afford to live in the catchment areas of the good secondaries in this area either.My dear dad (it's rubbish sometimes having a prof of maths as a parent) did some sums when we had the issues with our son....he reckoned that it was cheaper to pay school fees than re-locate and pay higher mortgage (it was a complicated long term interest thingy...the school you pay as you go)

Plus DD has a bursary now of 25%.

I can chit chat about my experience only as we have had a daughter in state primary to age 11 then "posh" school (because it is pretty different to what she was used to) from then on.

My son's situation was completely different as he is a diff type of kid...now man!)If it is the school catchment issue. please post...i will be honest despite the good socialists (I used to be one!) who may jump in on the thread.......i know loads of them they happened to be fortunate enough to live in the "nice" streets (they earnt well) and got their kids into the "nice" state schools....boy are they quick to judge!!!!

fc123

speedtwin wrote: »

Permission not to be withheld without good reason (or words to that afact) is normally used in contracts. So if the owner was allergic to cats and was planning to move back at a later date permission could be withheld.

My landlady is in a home....cat hair is the least of her problems (but my beautiful ginger is combed daily anyway and busts my DFW budget with the frontline bills) as her roof is about to go, the widows leak and the house is disiontegrating around us...bu we like it! It has great sea view, a giant garden (full of nasty neighbours cats that keep sneaking into the house) and it keeps me on my DFW journey...it's like living in the 1940's.....I must go now and stoke my coal fire.....

fc123

spinks wrote: »

Who said anything about a clause?

Surely a landlord should have a right to say if he wants six goats and 20 sheep running around his house!

A landlord cannot unreasonably withold permission but the tenant should at least make a request and get permission in writing.

I personally don't have much respect for tenants who feel they need to do things underhandedly. I have always found if you play fair with them then they will do the same with me.

But, no doubt the day will come when somebody will bite the hands thats feeds them.

OHHHH perleeeeze ...my little emoticans won't work.........actually a bloke cam around who makes these cute chicken sheds out of recycled wood....figured it would save on the egg bill...have got 200 foot of garden (all overgrown) and am really getting into the whole "good life" ethos at the mo...a sheep would keep the grass down except you cant milk it unless it keeps having lambs and I don't know what to do with them???

spinks

beingjdc wrote: »

This is a bit of an extreme example, but as for other pets, why should the landlord? They have rented their house out. They can have it back at the end of the time period, and they have a deposit against it not being in an appropriate condition. In the meantime, it's the tenant's.

Nobody says you can't use a hire car to take your pets to the vet! The point of paying for the use of something is that you in fact have the use of it...

It may be an extreme example but a landlord still has the right to decide who they let their property to. And if they prefer to let it out to somebody who says they dont have or intend to have pets over somebody who has a beautiful ginger !!!!! then thats their business.

Anyway, I think the op was actually wanting help with relocating so I apologise for going off topic in the first instance and maybe we can get it back on track now.