Re: OT: Algebra help, please

Tony Bryer <tonyb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 13:12:27 +0100 Jo Lonergan wrote :
My ambition in life is to have a flat I could just invite people
up to without notice. And also not to need 6 months notice of people
coming to stay so that I can move the clutter out of the spare room.

I've got what is called here a dual-key apartment - I don't know
whether they are only found in Australia but the concept was new to me.
On the one title (indivisible) there is a one-bed flat and a studio.
There's an outer front door (the one I keep locked) then a lobby with
lockable doors to the flat and studio. This gives various options:

1. Let both out on two tenancies (you would never let both as one as
the rent would be less)

2. Live in the flat, let out the studio

3. Short of money: live in the studio, let out the flat

4. - what I'm doing - occupy both and leave the inner doors unlocked.

So I've got the studio as my bedroom/office (I work from home) which is
not always the tidiest of spaces. Own bathroom, and the studio kitchen
is the staff tea room <g>. Next door - the flat - is the public space
which stays vaguely tidy, the bedroom being used (except if someone
comes to stay) as dining room - it's on a corner with stunning views so
really would be wasted as a bedroom. Works brilliantly for me.


The upper floor of the house next door was set up like that when the
former, late, owner was living there. He and his family lived in the
whole place, and then a period of time after her death (the children
had long since gone), he let the front studio, first to strangers,
then eventually to his grandson and partner. It was reconfiged after
his death and the sale into totally separate units.
Downstairs is still one big flat. And you can tell by the floor
patterns there that at one time it was just a large single family
dwelling.

73, doug

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