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Yeah we used to get all sorts of people looking for help thinking it would have someone from the church living in it. It was rough around the edges inside, but positives were it was only £500 each, they didn't increase the rent for the 8 years I was there, lots of room for bikes and summer bbqing in the garden it was difficult to leave
As a side note, if you park there don't leave anything in your car. We used to have police round every couple of weeks in winter asking if we had seen people breaking in.
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A couple of years ago I lived in a little detached cottage on Barnes Common in Putney. The rent was about £1500 a month. It was owned by the primary school next door which was connected to the church opposite us. I'm sure they could have sold it for a lot of money but from their perspective it was an easy way to keep a bit of spending money trickling in which didn't effect school funding. I imagine having a big wedge of cash from selling assets might do.