Owning your own home

Barn conversions are for wankers who play golf.

I don't have an Aston to put the clubs in so I'm safe from that fate.

Pow!

That house is proper nasty tho.

Shaker style kitchen x plastic coservatory collabs are definitely golf.

I liked the space, wasn't looking st the decor as that can be changed. However I'm fighting a losing battle on the "let's move out of London" front so I will park this.

So, we've found a house that we like and is in budget but there are tenants in it at the moment who apparently will have the right to remain two months after the sale has gone through. I'm assuming that this would mean we would have to get a buy to let even though we would only be letting until we could move in. Any way around this? Steer clear? Advice appreciated!

Agree to buy it only once the vendor has secured vacant possession. Getting the tenants out should be their problem, not yours.

+1, what guarantees do you have that the tenants will actually leave two months after completion?

I'm not sure that there are (m)any mortgage lenders who will release funds until you do have agreement for free and vacant possession...

If the deal was right I'd risk it.

A buy to let lender would want to see the tenancy agreement and your solicitor will trawl it through to make sure it's legit.

Worst case you have to evict them if they don't leave.

Ask the owners to buy the tenants out and as above get vacant possession - it's only two months, if the tenants aren't complete dickheads that should be possible.

Thanks all. Much appreciated.

Under very few circumstances would I take the tenancy on - unless I was BTLing the place

Strange leak appeared in hallway. No evidence of water from above. Not sure what the go is yet. Need to ask upstairs if they had a leak or something. Maybe running along inside wall. Also possible from underneath but seems less likely with a slab in place.

Could be fun...

@Dammit ramblings had me looking for places a little further afield. I saw this place

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51963187.html

And wondered if I could get a mortgage, based on the cast iron guarantee that if my children grew up here they would obv become Monet reincarnate and we could afford it based on the future sales of their artwork..

Pretty sure its a done deal.

Love it, could you make it a bit cheaper?

Install some water-driven turbines on those cascades,
property should be self-funding!

looks like a norman rockwell painting.

buy it!

That looks amazing. Perfect for swinging parties...I would imagine.

Added in 2015. Not Sold. Clearly haunted.

"Stunning 2 acre plot with Indian burial ground"

"To be on the safe side, never say a name three times whilst at home"

Wow i did not notice that.....2 years !

was originally on for 1.5m and only dropped to 1.25m in Jul 2017...

Yeah my wife would love those occasions where I am travelling or working late. Jeez she won't even go into the basement when I am at home in our current house.

"Includes resident caretaker. May always have been you"

that is not weed in the lake, its the souls of the previous occupants and visitors.

apart from that its lovely

"Please wear flotation devices when going to bed"