The History of The Annexe

We met on the buses, and are older and uglier now...but still smiling.

I've owned The Annexe since December 2007.

My partner Duncan and I use the flat as an 'overflow' from our other, slightly larger, flat in the same street. We use it to house our guests in the gaps between tenants. This is a very extravagant luxury so we're open to short lets when suitable people come our way.

Three times we've leased it to nearby Fox Studios businesses for visiting contractors... once for a month to an English woman visiting her daughter, three summers in a row to a French woman escaping the northern hemisphere winter. 6 months to an American/Australian/Japanese couple working nearby, an Adelaide couple starting a new phase in Sydney....a German thinking of doing the same ... it's been a launchpad for new migrants from Ireland, India, Venezuela, Cuba, South Africa, Argentina and England...and so it goes on.  Several have initially committed to 6 weeks and ended up staying 3-6 months.  So far so good.  I've insisted on constructive feedback from all them so the place keeps evolving/improving with a legacy from each custodian.

Update....10yrs later....your wrinkly hosts...I deal with the people and D does the maintenance.