Neighbour problems

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there's nothing worse than noisy neighbours,

we have one next to us,chavvy type that play trance music from his shed,and always out in his garden messing/parties late at night sometimes

if ever a zombie virus broke out,he'd be the first to go/get whacked on the head:D
 
pitchfork said:
They don't build em like they used to.
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I lived in a terraced house from the early 1900's, and it was dreadful when the horrible chavs moved in next to us. So much so that we too moved. We didn't make any official complaints and thus we didn't divulge info that the neighbours were scum. I am registered on Rightmove so I get alerts for my previous properties to keep tabs on their price. Needless to say, just under 2 years later after we moved out, the property came back up.

Detached houses are the best! Good choice Rossi! We all home the new place is much better for you x
 
Really feel for you with this one.

I experienced this a number of years ago when we bought an 'investment' property just outside of London, the plan being that we would initially live in it, and move out within two years.

A new build apartment, we bought it off plan at a ridiculously low rate, two months after we completed we had a speculative offer on it from an investment landlord who offered us 100k more than we paid for it. I got greedy and turned it down. A mistake.....why? This was 2007, 1 year after we bought it, the bottom of the housing market fell out. Hindsight.......

Unfortunately in this particular block most of the owners were investment landlords and they rented their apartments out to students...:(

It took us 5 years to get the equity back to hit the right BTL LTV macro and we did what every one else did.....moved out and rented it out to students.

During those five years though, the amount of noise issues we had was unreal, students puking in communal corridors, litter and generally twatiness (is that a word?).

It only turned violent once when I complained, but luckily I had my friend with me (amateur boxer) and he sorted the situation. Thankgod because anything like that scares the **** outta me.

I used to question myself constantly if it was me being unreasonable, I used to make excuses for them (they are 18 year old students) to avoid confrontation but ultimately my wife and myself suffered.

Move out...if you can do the same as what we did....do it!
 
The house we used to live in had an old guy next door who used to have war films on constantly blaring out of his TV, not late at night so we could sleep OK but it used to wind me up when I got home from work and the volume would go UP, presumably because he was going into his kitchen and didn't want to miss anything.

Eventually I resorted to jamming my big Roland JC120 up against the wall and leaving it on screaming feedback for 5 minutes. Lo-and-behold nice and quiet for the rest of the evening, then it would start again a few days later.

Eventually found a buyer and moved, daft old get pegged it 4 months later.
 
The council ultimately need to be more strict. If people are breaching the peace and causing a nuisance to others they should get a warning, followed by financial penalty, followed by criminal sentencing.

This type of anti-social behavior ruins peoples lives, especially kids who grow up in this kind of hostility, and are probably the most likely candidates to go on repeating the cycle when they grow up.
 
The funny thing is, knowing how a lot of people feel about HA tenants on this forum, they are certainly easier to get rid of than a terrible neighbour who has bought his house!
 
It's like the fat bald gorilla which lives next door to me, he's always doing some sort of DIY in the garden or house. This past Sunday he started banging at 6:45pm, now to me, that's a bloody joke, it only last 20 mins or so but still. Why not do it in the morning rather than wait until people want to relax.

I've woken up in the middle of the night (nip to the toilet) to hear either him or his lard arse wife hoovering up !!! :rolleyes: God knows how their young kids sleep with two simpletons bringing them up.
 
Rossi~ said:
I am leaving that house knowing i one the moral battle. I've not done anything to them and will leave it that way. :)



Being North Herts, it sold with ease. Went on the market on a Thursday and was off the market on the Monday.
We bought the place 2 years ago for £245K and sold for £300K, we spend no more than about 5K on it... The house prices have gone silly around here.



Yep, now and then, not as bad as before but they got a dog.
He was shooting pigeons again the other day. Shot one off MY roof onto my conservatory, had a dead pigeon in the gutter...

Moving to a DETACHED house.... :D
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Even if hes using an air rifle its still a criminal offence to use it near a house/someones property:

Firing pellets beyond a permitted boundary

It is an offence to fire an air rifle pellet beyond the land where a shooter has permission to shoot, unless the occupier of the neighbouring land has also given permission. An air rifle used in a garden or residential area is therefore being used illegally if pellets are fired in to someone else’s garden without the owner’s permission.

Phone the police on him saying he has a gun the day you exchange.
 
Terraced houses and Semi's are not the issue, the way they are constructed is the issue.

I lived in an ultra high density apartment tower, in a different country, for 4 years. 54 levels high (I was on level 33) and each wall was 1 foot thick concrete with soundproofing. Needless to say, I used to have my soundbar on level 50 and if you went outside the flat into the hallway and closed the door you could hear a whisper, it was that quiet. The apartment was also 1,450 square foot 1 bed which meant you had a 5metre by 6metre living room and an equally sized bedroom and didn't feel like you were staying in a shoebox.

Now back to the joke construction here in the UK with a brick or two separating each rabbit hut....sorry, 'house', and it's no wonder you can hear everything. In typical UK fashion, no regulation is imposed on the developer to build certain thickness walls, or use certain materials to limit noise disturbance - instead the Government leaves it up to the people to 'behave' and if you have a nuisance neighbour...well, that's unfortunate isn't it. New builds are even worse, they're literally stud walls separating each unit.
 
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