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Thanks for all your help but I have come up with the perfect solution. I'm going to work from home but do it all online and over the phone so it's easier for myself and clients. They can't stop me answering my phone!

Wouldn't that apply to any property though? Surely nobody would ever get planning permission based on the fact the next owner could radically change the business use?

Thanks to everyone for replying. I'll answer these questions because it should cover what everyone has asked. 1) The car park forms part of the freehold. Each house owns the space and it's shown on the land registry maps as a square for the house with a long thin bit extending from the top of the square stretching into the…

Thanks, I'm already happy here and I can't see me moving for a few years at least. One great thing about it is that the further down the road you go the bigger the houses get. It starts off with studios (which I looked at years ago) then goes to flats (which I also looked at) then small houses then bigger houses. That…

Good luck with your plan. I once moved out of the city and I was back after a few months because I missed all the things I thought i wanted to get away from. I'd recommend renting somewhere for a few months to see how you take to it before buying anywhere. You might be able to do it much sooner than you think, just as I…

I didn't update this thread anywhere near as often as I meant to but just in case anybody should stumble upon this thread in the future with a similar problem I wanted to tell you how all this went. I went down the bank that I had taken my mortgage out with in January 2017. They had a look at my income and said I could…

Sorry I didn't realise you were at the viewing listening to everything that was said. I thought you had just read a post on the internet.

That's great - thanks! Those inserts are exactly what fell out and I found some on ebay by searching for "M5 threaded insert plastic" that should fit back in the hole. I hope this thread helps someone else in the future :j

I am trying to get the metal thread bit back. I had put some glue inside the hole and was attempting to stick it back in when it fell and I'm not sure if it's magnetic so I will try a paperclip. It does seem odd to me that anyone would glue a tube with a thread inside it into a frame. I'm rubbish at DIY but I would have…

There's nowhere to screw the lock into. The threads in the window frame have fallen out.

Thanks for your help everyone. It makes more sense now.

Sorry I'm typing this on a phone so there are a few typos.

I think I'll just do everything I can to get a freehold house and avoid all this!

This is not the one I am looking at but it's very similar except that it costs several times more! http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-49563103.html

It says in the description that it's freehold and it even lists that as a bonus, saying you don't have to worry about a lease because it's freehold. It seems odd to me but the agent got quite agitated when I asked a question very similar to the one on here about what would happen if someone didn't do repairs and that…

I think of a maisonette as a set of rooms with a private entrance and no communal areas. The one I'm looking is definitely freehold and sits above one that is rented out. In that case, wouldn't you always want a ground floor maisonette so you'd never have to worry about the roof? I thought the whole block would be…

It's not about growing up, it's about whether I'm happy or not. I laugh at these people who think you must have your own place by the time you're 21 or you should kill yourself for being a failure. Far too many people bow to social pressure and fear the self-made stigma of living at home when in many cases that would be a…

I was just interested to know if anyone had been through this and how it worked for them. I know my situation is unique to me, I'll see how it goes.

No it isn't buyers regret. I had the chance to sell it twice with two full asking price offers within days of it going up for sale. The fact I didn't sell shows that I don't regret buying it at all otherwise I'd have taken the first offer and ran. I'm just assessing whether I would rather live here or my old place.…

A lot of people won't have done it because they couldn't go back to where they came from due to them selling the previous place. I've read many stories of people saying they wish they could.