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I have no idea about whose responsibility it is, but 3 seems to be specifically animals which the council considers to be dangerous injurious to health or a nuisance and I doubt cats are on that list.
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because they 'think' the lease suggests that the exterior of the property is our responsibility
Could it be that the lease is not obvious at spelling this out.
-- solicitors have told us "There is a restriction against keeping pets on the property. I would recommend that if you intend to keep a pet, you obtain consent from the Landlord before exchange of contracts."
I don't understand - doesn't that make it pretty clear that a house cat isn't allowed in the lease, getting a dispensation / permission for one does seem like something you'd have to do rather than the solicitor unfortunately.
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because they 'think' the lease suggests that the exterior of the property is our responsibility, but cannot actually give us a solid answer on where the line is drawn
Hmmm. Sometimes leases are worded badly. Might be worth getting the clause in full and getting an expert to review it.
lease says "Not to keep any animal bird or reptile in the flat which the council considers to be dangerous injurious to health or a nuisance"
Above Standard. A great number of lease rule out ALL pets unless given permission, so this seems quite permissive.
There is a restriction against keeping pets on the property. I would recommend that if you intend to keep a pet, you obtain consent from the Landlord before exchange of contracts.
The pets thing...it only matters if your pet is a fucking nuisance anyway. If you have a brain, you'll make sure your dogue / lizards are quiet and don't piss people off.
The solicitors are covering their bums, there.
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Having just been through purchase process, I concur that the value of information provided by conveyancing solicitors (on both sides) is limited.
Even quite good ones.
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Maybe im mistaken, but would like advice, I thought that these 2 things would be the solicitors responsibility to find out for us for sure, but our solicitors keep saying things along the lines of 'you'd be best going to the freeholder and finding out yourselves'
our homebuyers survey noted that the guttering could do with seals replacing and cleaning and moss cleaning off the roof
-- they are saying we could ask the vendor to get this done, because they 'think' the lease suggests that the exterior of the property is our responsibility, but cannot actually give us a solid answer on where the line is drawn, i.e if guttering and moss on roof are our problem, is the roof caving in our problem too?
lease says "Not to keep any animal bird or reptile in the flat which the council considers to be dangerous injurious to health or a nuisance"
-- solicitors have told us "There is a restriction against keeping pets on the property. I would recommend that if you intend to keep a pet, you obtain consent from the Landlord before exchange of contracts." we don't see these 2 as related, and again i would have thought that it was there responsibility to find out whether a house cat isn't allowed in the lease