annoying neighbour

Sasso

Sasso

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Hey well first off im a student, now dont jusge too harsly because of it :p

basically the other week after the boxing match my house mate was rather loud at about3am in the back garden and a lady told him to be quite from her window (quite rightly too) but he argued and some not nice things were said and she wrote a letter to the council. i wasnt there at the time along with some house mates (we were in town :)). the next day he wrote a letter sayying sorry and she came round and talked to me as i was the only one in, and i didnt know pretty much anything about it but she was being really patronising towards me and found it annoying, i do sympothise with her but was no need for her tone. anyways he got her some flowers and went round in person then and they sorted everything out and she wront another letter to the councile saying she had a letter saying sory and that they had sorted it.

a police man came round then a few days after and my mate wasnt in so we chatted about it with him and told him what we knew of it and that we wern't there and then he met up with my mate and they chatted and he gave him a warning personally rather than the house as it was only him being antisocial and most of us wern't even there.

then we had a letter from the uni saying that they would take action against our house and that if we wernt there to contact them, so we did and said we werent there and my mate is friends with the student president and told him we hard sorted it with the police and woman and the president emailed the university guy. i had a phone call from his secretary as i called her last week and she said that well we need to prove realyl that we wernt there as they havent spoken to my mate in person yet, so i said well i was out in town with mates so she said to write and email from all of us stating who was where or to come in to meet him. so we're deciding what to do over the weekend.

it's a bit annoying that now the uni is sticking its nose in after everything has been sorted before they even heard of it.

however, now she is just nit picking tbh :mad: we had a letter thismorning from her basically complaining and moaning about last night. again i wasnt there at the time but my house mates had a BBQ in the back garden with a few friends, they knocked on her door before they started (about 7pm) to let her know out of consideration that we were having one but she wasnt in. now they were pretty quiet and they had finished the BBQ and were indoors before 11pm. fair enough i think.
but now shes complaining to us about the fact that they were still rather loud and that we had said we would keep the noise down and have BBQ's before it was dark (fair comprimise i think and we stuck to it). but they were in before it was really dark. but she complained that when she got in (at 9:30pm) she went to her room which she left the window open to (she lives about 2-3 houses down) and that it was smelling of smoke and had to close her window on a really hot night....

WHAT!? ok im sorry but people are going to have BBQ's, we tried to let her know we were having one... we were perfectly within the law (and she knows it cos she said... it's not illegal but what a good neighbour should do) but the summer has just begun and seems like she just tryign to cripple us. my mate was actualyl really paranoid last ngiht like, making sure to keep it down and to make sure they were in before 11pm. it's just gotten silly really, what does she expect us to do? just never go out into our garden, never have BBQ's.... we have be very considerate... if not over considerate recently to keep the peace and we have done.

it has just really just got us all annoyed now, her letter was 3pages long too just to say that. we're only in this house for another month anyway, and im glad cos she would have ruined our summer otherwise!

*wheww* /rant over
:)

i do sympothise with her and my mate was in the wrong to begin with but we have changed or ways a lot and become stricter when we are in the garden and really made an effort but she living in a student area, we are considerate, other people have been much louder than us and they dont get complaints, we're near a park too and little chavs hang out there on some nights being really loud and smashing things but ntohing gets done about them. we were just shocked that she complained to us basically saying to do everythign her way.

what ya people think?
 
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your biggest mistake was been so nice about it the first time. sure he should have apologised but now she thinks your decent people and is trying to make you feel guilty
 
Uni students are horrible neighbours to have, I feel sorry for people who live in streets that have now become student zones.

Saying that from what you've said your house sounds like its now considering other people in the street, but what were you like before she complained the first time?

Now she knows you won't kill her she might vent a lot of built up aggo on you. :p
 
lol innit monkey man, well we werent that bad considering to be honest, if we would go outside for a cig at night we would whisper to eachother, soemtimes we might be a bit drunk and a bit loud but we would always quieten ourselves down when we realised like.. ooops were being loud shhhh... shhhh *giggle* shhhh lets go inside. lol so really we wern't that loud or unbecomming towards anyone.
apparently the guy in the uni is a right t**t away way and not to bother talking to him but we will probably write him an email, and they said that they would get an incident number so they will get everything that we told the cop anywho. :) so the uni should be fine.
and well yea the night of the fight my mate told her where to stick it :p not the smoothest move but he's stupid when he's drunk and we've sat him down and told him to sort it out and he's changed and become a lot more aware when hes out there and when having a drink :) but yea if she thinks we're not going to have BBQ's she can jog on :p
 
tbh im fairly sure its not against the rules to have a BBQ so they cant do you on that, just complain she is harassing you tbh.
 
Vasquez said:
bloody students, honestly.
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In my extensive experience, they are mostly inconsiderate ****ers, who have very little experience of living with other people, and frankly need to grow up. Acting like immature selfish kids just isn't fair to the people you live with, or near (at any time, let alone 3am).
 
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The uni can **** off as far as you personally are concerned tbh.. you don't have to prove anything the complaint is against your mate. Unless someone actually complains about your behavior personally then you've got nothing to answer.

Your mate was being a bit of a muppet but presumably he's learned his lesson - not a great idea to abuse someone who's pretty much in the right. I hope its wasn't a week night but even still 3am on a saturday or sunday morning could be a pain fro some people if they work weekends.

either way there is no way you should be in any trouble over this nor anything anyone can really do to you - universities do try to overstep the mark sometimes - our uni security used to think they could shut down house parties regardless of whether they were on uni property or not.
 
seek said:
In my extensive experience, they are mostly inconsiderate ****ers, who have very little experience of living with other people, and frankly need to grow up. Acting like immature selfish kids just isn't fair to the people you live with, or near (at any time, let alone 3am).
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We're not all like that, although I know quite a few who are :)
 
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