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Old 10-27-2019, 08:00 AM   #262
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Originally Posted by Little.Egret View Post
In fact the builder can refuse to sell but instead offers a 99 or 999 year lease at a small ground rent with conditions on appearance, paint and replacement.
If it is a good deal you may choose to accept (see Mayfair, London, England) or go elsewhere.
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
The contract matters, what are you actually paying for? Are you paying the builder to build a house (paying for labour and materials, see also hildea's post #247), or are you paying the builder for the use of a house (see Little.Egret's post above), or are you paying for the final product? You need to know before work starts if you don't want nasty surprises.

Pay a writer to write a book and ownership of the IP goes to you, unless the contract says otherwise. (With photography - I think - the assumptions go the other way unless the contract says otherwise.)
Which is the case with anything, whether the product is IP or physical. There is a contract between whoever commissions and pays for the work and whoever does the actual work. That should explicitly state who owns what when the work is finished.

And I did think of those things when responding to @PKFFW. But, to my mind, what you are referring to is closer to leasing or renting, not buying. I chose to keep it simple. I believe the intention of @PKFFW's analogy was clear, as was my reply.

And it is fairly common for there to be restrictions on changes that can be made to a house. But, these usually come from some level of government or a local group of some sort, not the builder or architect.
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