Hi,
Just posting to see if anyone has ever been in the same situation or has any further ideas of what we can do to resolve an issue.
Myself and my partner are both 23 and around 18 months ago purchased our first property. It’s only a small ground floor flat of a town house but our first home and something we worked hard for. First 6 months were fine, the upstairs flat is owned by a family in new Zealand and rented out. the tenants were no problem. After around 6 months, a new family moved in with a 2 year old daughter.
For the last year, we are woken at 6AM on our weekends by the child running all over the house upstairs causing horrendous banging. This goes on all day and on the weekend evening until 2-3AM in the morning. Our lights shake, our radiators wobble. The owner has had a few carpets replaced but to no avail, the banging is too much for any quality carpet to make a difference.
We have tried speaking to them, they are Romanian and do not speak very good English so it is difficult but they say it is not their problem, they cannot stop a child from playing. We have spoken to their property managers who seem to have little power in order to do anything. We have spoken to the council who as soon as they heard the fact is was a child, told us they couldn’t do anything regardless of the fact it was during unsociable hours.
I have now asked the owner of the property to serve them notice and offered to pay for any estate agent fees and missing rent in the time it takes to find new tenants who don’t have a young child. My inclination is however that he won’t go along with this.
Does anyone know what else we can do.
Not having the property long means it doesn’t make too much financial sense for us to move. We enquired about buying the upstairs property ourselves but the owner wanted far too much for it.
Very thankful of any ideas or help from anyone!
Thanks
Just posting to see if anyone has ever been in the same situation or has any further ideas of what we can do to resolve an issue.
Myself and my partner are both 23 and around 18 months ago purchased our first property. It’s only a small ground floor flat of a town house but our first home and something we worked hard for. First 6 months were fine, the upstairs flat is owned by a family in new Zealand and rented out. the tenants were no problem. After around 6 months, a new family moved in with a 2 year old daughter.
For the last year, we are woken at 6AM on our weekends by the child running all over the house upstairs causing horrendous banging. This goes on all day and on the weekend evening until 2-3AM in the morning. Our lights shake, our radiators wobble. The owner has had a few carpets replaced but to no avail, the banging is too much for any quality carpet to make a difference.
We have tried speaking to them, they are Romanian and do not speak very good English so it is difficult but they say it is not their problem, they cannot stop a child from playing. We have spoken to their property managers who seem to have little power in order to do anything. We have spoken to the council who as soon as they heard the fact is was a child, told us they couldn’t do anything regardless of the fact it was during unsociable hours.
I have now asked the owner of the property to serve them notice and offered to pay for any estate agent fees and missing rent in the time it takes to find new tenants who don’t have a young child. My inclination is however that he won’t go along with this.
Does anyone know what else we can do.
Not having the property long means it doesn’t make too much financial sense for us to move. We enquired about buying the upstairs property ourselves but the owner wanted far too much for it.
Very thankful of any ideas or help from anyone!
Thanks
