Would you buy a house, where you only had use of the top floor

[cybercinders]

or would you want a whole house for yourself ...

Why would you only have use of the top floor? Is the bottom rented out? Will you be able to reclaim teh bottom once the rental agreement is up?

Do you mean "Would you buy a flat?"

I would want a whole house for myself. Is there a clause with a sitting tenant cinders?

yes the bottom is rented out and at present
a doctors surgery....
that is what im not sure about as our entrance is past the back of his surgery...

it is a lovely old building and we really want to move soon ..

just so unsure

we have a lively ds and a lively collie dog

think we will push the doctor into retirement

am dithering so much over this..

Is the income worth the wait?

How long is the lease?

How often can it be renewed?

Can you give them notice?

How much would it cost to convert it back to a single dwelling? Would you need Planning permission?

What kind of lease does the surgery have? Is it possible that you will be able to give notice to the doctor in a year/few years anyway?

Can you live in the house as it is at the moment i.e. is there enough space for you upstairs? What happens if you have more children and he doesn't leave? Are you going to become overcrowded at some point?

And finally, will the house work as one unit. I mean, if you have enought living space as it is (kitchen upstairs etc) will you actually need all the extra space the downstairs could give you or will it cost an unaffordable fortune to move everything around to make it work as one house?

must find exact terms of lease

as far as i know it is on reduced rental
whilst this doctor has use of it

yes the income would be very useful
as we will have to borrow money against another property to start with

to convert back would be possible but quite a bit of work

think it is the idea of it being a doctors i do not like ....hate going to the doctors so living abover one ..

the upstairs is very big ...
much more space than we have at present

and it even has a bed sit on our floor ...

just dreamed of being able to go straight out to a garden
the house we are in at present has stairs down to the garden ,,,

oh well need to log off for abit

thank you all....

I can't advise on what to do now about the doctor's, but we moved into a house that had once been a doctor's and it was fine: we had to sort out the address with the council (but that wasn't planning permission, it was just informing them that it was a single dwelling and no longer a business iirc)
a doorway had to be knocked through into the main house too.

i think your main concern should be how long he's going to be running the practice, really.

he is near retirement
but

there are a lot of buts

the house is in such a good location