I own a house

[fivemack]

All the lawyers performed their strange lawyerly rituals; I have paid the solicitors enough to buy two cases of Laithwaites' best sauternes, HMRC enough stamp-duty to fund one junior nurse for six weeks, and the Land Registry the price of a decent mobile phone. On Friday after lunch I picked up the keys. Now I have:

an end-of-terrace house with

a kitchen with tiles with rabbits on,

the most seventies hallway ever,

and an overgrown garden with both the most amazing orange flowers and an outbuilding with net curtains

Comments

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

It was used for storage; it's got a work-bench down one side and ought to be convertible into a very nice workshop if I can keep it from being completely consumed with such of my possessions as don't quite fit into the rest of the house.

There is a note in the covenants associated with the property saying that the outbuilding shall not be used as sleeping quarters, but I suppose the nature of illegal rental units is that they pay no attention to such covenants.

[simont]

"shall not be used as sleeping quarters" seems a little steep. It would be one thing to say "thou shalt not let it out on a semipermanent basis to a paying tenant", but quite another to say you can't even put up a party guest or two in it now and again.

Anyway, congratulations!

[aldabra]

Our house in Bristol had a covenant saying we weren't allowed to sleep in the shed. Or have a goat. I was so cross.