Owning your own home

Turns out the mysterious other buyer trumped our offer - hey ho 🙁

Why the need for mirrors over beds!
Plus that kitchens pretty well appointed for someone who I assume does no cooking.

Sexy times.

One of my neighbours recently called the police because she saw "a suspicious looking man in a tracksuit". It was my neighbour, a radiologist at a local hospital, having a fag.

Good call, a radiologist really should know better.

House (bungalow) we’re buying is near to exchange but just found out the owner died in the house in June- I don’t think I’ll relay this information to my 9 year old daughter..
There were some dodgy stains on one of the bedroom walls when we looked around recently

I live in a house built 1890, it's a dead cert that people died in my house. Their heads are in my fridge.

there's someone dying in my house right now!

wait wut?

In my younger years i was a Removals person.

Oh some of the things you see and find.

Whilst packing a job and one of the blokes was clearing out the large understairs cupboard.... we heard a scream.
Assuming this was going to be more interesting than sex toys or grandads war souvenirs we didn't expect 4 human skulls looking at us in a neat row on a shelf.

The house owner had forgotten about them :) a professor of medical things, he put them to bed in the cupboard as it always caused people to scream when they walked into the house as you don't expect to find body parts on display.....

We used to find loads of porn among other interesting items that the owners should really have packed themselves :)

Could be worse. My friend Danny bought a farmhouse in which the previous owner had lay down in bed with his shotgun and pulled the trigger with his toe. Obviously it had been cleaned well when he moved in but there still pellet holes in the master bedroom wall.

That sucks. Will be interesting to see on land reg what it goes for in a couple of months.

This reminded me that I haven't unpacked mine yet. Probably should get a display case.

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Are you a Med student ? or other :)

The Hunterian collection is an interesting trip if your in London.

Hunterian collection looks great, unfortunately they are closed till 2021.

Bummer, then again a lot of specimen jars to dust off and top up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6ZBxCzxQCU

Yep the Royal College of Surgeons has been closed for 2 years now. Seems to be part of another LSE development project.

Our place had bloodstains on the carpet "she had a gammy leg" apparently

Anyone have any experience with very old covenants on extra land that was bought as addition to the original plot?

There is a covenant in place on my house dating back to the 1950s.

We did research when we bought the place as we bought with a view to developing the house a bit. We were assured by multiple qualified people that it is very hard to enforce a covenant that old as there is no one left alive to enforce it, and that it would be highly unlikely to come up in any planning application we make. Even if it is a problem once the work has been carried out we were told that we would be able to purchase an indemnity for relatively little money.

Our conveyancer eventually found out that the £2 a year charge on our land was abolished shortly after the turn of the century

Restrictive Covenants? One of my specialist subjects. I give an enthralling 3 hour seminar on the subject about 10 times a year.

Aren't all covenants restrictive? Always had this simplistic idea in my head that covenants were restrictive whereas easements were permissive.

Aren't all covenants restrictive?

No. A covenant not to obstruct a driveway is a restrictive covenant. A covenant to keep a driveway in repair is a positive covenant. However, positive covenants are not generally binding on successors in title to the original covenantor, although there are exceptions and workarounds.

That's a great distinction - thank you.

Who gets to enforce restrictive covenants?

(At the highest / most simple level - if it's possible to answer in that way)

Not that I necessarily /want/ to build a new house in my garden...

We're trying to get out solicitor to translate / de mystify the olde english legal speak.
I do know we can't have pigs and chickens but there's stuff on it about "not moving soil" as the the land nearby was used for some bath stone / mineral mining a long time ago.. probably be a big sinkhole underneath..
we're buying off Jones' Hill (the little brown bit to the right of the H on the map)
http://www.choghole.co.uk/LOCATIONS.htm