Hoping to get some advice from anyone who has purchased a leasehold property as I think this lease looks absolutely ridiculous.
Just some of the clauses include:
No alterations to inside the property without prior written consent
No pets without prior written consent
All floors other than kitchen and bathroom to be carpeted (I don’t want sodding carpet)
No musical instruments, singing or radio noise from the property
No changing of any of the structure of the property (there are some walls we wanted to move, such as knocking a pantry out to make the kitchen bigger as it’s tiny but it’s not a supporting wall)
There are also plenty of other insane ones like not hanging your washing out of the windows and having to paint, varnish or paper the walls every five years...
Is this normal?! There’s quite a lot of work to be done on the property which is why we wanted to buy it - as a doer upper. The leaseholder is also the council if that makes any difference?
We were so close to signing contracts and moving in and this has now stopped us in our tracks.