Moving house

[quackhandle]

I've been going through all this pain for the last year.

I've had to pull out of a purchase because I wasn't comfortable about some restrictive covenants on the land.

Not a mistake I'm going to make twice. In fact it has put me off buying anywhere new or anything from a developer (this was a renovation job) where, apparently, covenants are quite common.

For example, things that govern what you can/can't have on your drive which may put off people from buying the developers remaining properties. Or needing planning permission to put up a shed, as in my case.

I'm in the process of buying another place now & I'm getting all the assurances I can upfront that there are no legal nasties lurking....

I had this, apparently i can have pigs and cows on my land but not chickens. No idea why.

qh

[Gumbo Robot]

I had this, apparently i can have pigs and cows on my land but not chickens. No idea why.

qh

Bizarre...

Mine said I wasn't permitted to build any structure on 50% of the land & that it had to be used as a garden.

While the neighbour seemed reasonable in that structure == building development, somebody else could have moved in and decided that structure == pond, wall, pergola, whatever.... So I walked.

[SueEllen]

I had this, apparently i can have pigs and cows on my land but not chickens. No idea why.

qh

Chickens use to be expensive to keep and buy right up until the 60s, so they probably kept chickens and didn't want any competition.

[SueEllen]

Bizarre...

Mine said I wasn't permitted to build any structure on 50% of the land & that it had to be used as a garden.

While the neighbour seemed reasonable in that structure == building development, somebody else could have moved in and decided that structure == pond, wall, pergola, whatever.... So I walked.

Garden structures are using it as a garden.

[seanraaron]

I had this, apparently i can have pigs and cows on my land but not chickens. No idea why.

qh

Holy crap is that Berg Katse in your avatar? Respect.

[quackhandle]

Holy crap is that Berg Katse in your avatar? Respect.

Or Zoltar for the "Safe for Children Version".

qh

[seanraaron]

Or Zoltar for the "Safe for Children Version".

qh

I'm watching Gatchaman now, up to episode 64 - awesome stuff.