Holiday Homes

I have one of those next door - Homestead62 - she constantly stands by her window (behind the curtains) and then , when she pops in for a coffee, I get the third degree - where did you go? What did you buy ? And on and on …….

Homestead62

I cannot put too much on here but house next door to us was rented out for a while. It was awful, nice enough people but the lady of the house was strange. I actually became convinced she watched out of her window, as I just needed to put a foot in my garden and she'd be there. I didn't like their dog either, it was rather unpredictable and I'm wary of dogs as it is. Fortunately, we have lovely neighbours with a young family now. I do hope they stay. Nothing against the previous tenants at all, just found it a bit difficult coping with a constant presence. I'm quite a private person.

Have you ever read the Margaret Forster book “The Seduction of Mrs Pendlebury”?

Big country mansions are much in demand here in the Scottish Borders.
Families rent them for party weekends, Christmas etc and my DD found one to hire for her Hen weekend.

In Edinburgh many of the 5 room tenement flats are let to students or young singles, who have one room each and pay to my mind extortionate rents. About £700 pm each plus bills. There are queues of people wanting them.

The one I saw recently had one shared bathroom, a small kitchen and no communal space. Wet washing hanging in the hallway.

Someone is making a lot of money.

It would be an extremely large and well off family who wanted a 17-bedroom house as a holiday home just for themselves. My money would be on this house being turned into a hotel or rented out as a party house. Planning permission would be needed for a hotel or for renting out for holidays for more than 90 nights a year. A party house in a village near us caused a lot of noise nuisance to neighbours which the council had to deal with. Hen and stag parties - you can imagine …

Perfect for swingers weekends.
There are a lot of them around.

I cannot put too much on here but house next door to us was rented out for a while. It was awful, nice enough people but the lady of the house was strange. I actually became convinced she watched out of her window, as I just needed to put a foot in my garden and she'd be there. I didn't like their dog either, it was rather unpredictable and I'm wary of dogs as it is. Fortunately, we have lovely neighbours with a young family now. I do hope they stay. Nothing against the previous tenants at all, just found it a bit difficult coping with a constant presence. I'm quite a private person.

Sago

Well a post about a holiday home for a London family has now suggested party houses, a hotel/basic hostel, air b and b.

How about it’s a London family who want a country weekend/holiday home?

Lets hope they are lovely, employ some local people, support local businesses and make wonderful neighbours.

Oh I do hope you are right
One good thing for us is we have a high brick wall all along the perimeter of our land

Sago - you are a lovely optimistic person who puts me to shame ! Let’s hope you’re right .

Well a post about a holiday home for a London family has now suggested party houses, a hotel/basic hostel, air b and b.

How about it’s a London family who want a country weekend/holiday home?

Lets hope they are lovely, employ some local people, support local businesses and make wonderful neighbours.

A holiday home for how many??
Obviously I have no idea of how the other half live. And if they can afford that as just a holiday home of course they will have staff. I certainly wouldn’t want to clean it and strip that many beds etc.

I'm intrigued as to how many children they had, to need a house that big?!

vickymeldrew

Oh dear oh dear. Maybe a “holiday home” for someone, but not repeat holidays for the buyers. More likely to be an air bnb investment…….

Yes, I think it’s an airbnb investment too.

I hope you don't find it becomes a "party house".

However, the manor house in my mother-in-law's village did become a (very expensive) party house and only had very careful guests. I don't know if that's because others were put off by the compulsory staff which came with it...

Because it was set back from her home she really hardly noticed once she'd got over the change from a family home.

17 bedroom properties must be quite rare!

Goodness !

Oh dear oh dear. Maybe a “holiday home” for someone, but not repeat holidays for the buyers. More likely to be an air bnb investment…….

We know a couple who own two huge houses in large gardens in the same village. Swimming pools, stream through the garden, pretty landscaped gardens with woodland, sauna, gyms etc. each house is fully furnished and they live in each one 6 months of the year.

They will convert it to basic hotel type accommodation, the government are paying good money for basic rooms to hold 3

A money earner

No 17 bedrooms

17 bedrooms?

I thought you must mean 17 rooms.