I've been self-employed for 2 years now and have been living with my parents during that time and renting a small office space to run my business from. I am now looking to move out of home. I believe that you have to have 3 years accounts when self-employed to qualify for a mortgage. Add to this the fact that i am not earning a great deal from the business currently and my only option is to rent. I need some advice as to whether i can rent a property and run my business from there as well? Some people have told me this is not possible. the trouble i have is that i am moving from a fairly cheap area in terms of property to somewhere more expensive so i would struggle to rent both a house to live in as well as business premises. Ideally i'd like to combine the two. I run a mail-order, internet based record shop.