Can I come and live with you?

Good luck with it Isadora 

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Isadora, I don't know where you live, but I'd be after a cottage with a kitchen that you can sit in and at the same time have lots of shelves for your cookbooks and a rayburn (aga), dried herbs hanging off the beams and a nice walled garden out the back (doesn't have to be big, just enough to have friends and a bottle of wine or two   )

Nice.

Im currently helping my parents look for a property, I live with my brother up north but they want to move down south. Finding it abit difficult They want to rent but they don't want to pay a huge sum.

Hi Cologne

I am in a cottage at the moment ( rented).Turn of the century and very very expensive to run.


I am going for a modern house but do you know what? I am soo glad I have been able to have the experience of living in a cottage

I have a lot of stuff - this has a lot of rooms .
Also I have always wanted a conservatory and this is a really lovely one.

Finacially it probably is the wrong way round.

Go get it Issy!

I suppose they are, not modern and economically viable, but I love them. I live in a nice flat (1960s), but if I won the lottery, I'd be off like a shot to a small cottage with the things I talked about up there.

Mind you hon, if you won the lottery you could do it all up so it was nice and warm and cheap to run.

True, but I would still have to listen to the WI old girl upstairs.

That's great news Isadora

Just as a PS. She's very nice, but she has decided against a carpert and I can hear everything. I've been here almost 3 years and the old neighbours were very quiet. Help. She's a nice person and I don't want to upset her just as she moves in.

Thanks baz and everyone.

Early days yet and I have 5 more to look at this weekend but this is the first one which I can see myself living in...

Everything crossed for you. 

It's a hard one Cologne, but I wish you luck. That's why I would never have a d/stairs flat or have wooden floors.

Crossing fingers. I'd love to think of you living in an old property with class and integrity.

That's a good sign if it hits you first time

Thanks Pam. My problem is that I got this flat because of my lungs and the problems thereof, so I am grateful and, unfortunately have no say in who moves in upstairs. Having said that, I could have been really unlucky and get a heroin addict with lots of traffick outside my door.

Yeah, I suppose you could look at it that way. Actually.....who am I to give advice on house sounds. My next door neighbour believes in playing with motor bikes on the front drive during the summer months and the constant revving gets on my nerves  Even the neighbour over the other side has mentioned it. I know I make my noise and they make theirs, but there is a limit

Neighbours are an issue - I am going to go back to the road in the evening and at odd times to check them out

That's it Issy. Check out all avenues

Good idea issy.

Is it free from flooding?

Very good point - I think it is as it is on high ground, but how do I check?

Don't really know Isa but if it's on high ground I assume you should be okay  

I would imagine the 'search' would find all that out for you and it would be in a report

Sod it. Be proactive. Don a disguise, knock on the door and say you're from the noise abatement department and you are just reminding all tenants of the rules of noise and courtesy to other neighbours. Say it is a new Tory scheme. They'll believe you

 Good idea.

Thats brilliant! I will wear a tweed skirt and carry a clipboard,
I will report back when I have done it 

They are all the rage in the home counties dontcha know

Home or homeless?

The Environment Agency (SEPA in Scotland) do a flood  map where you can identify the risk of flooding in an area - just put in the relevant post code click

and congrats on the sale of your house

Thanks hoochie - I will do that 

Isadora I hope you find the house you are looking for somewhere nice with good neighbours all the best