When moving or buying a new house in new place. Anyway to check out your neighbours?

We need the inverse service, if someone new wants to buy a house next to you, can we not vet them beforehand and veto the sale if we don't like what we find?
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There isn't really one way to do it - some detective work on Facebook might show something up - but you'd need to spend some time finding out people's names, joining local groups, etc. etc. with a few hours work you can generally get a gist for it.
 
I'm sure disputes must be declared when selling.

Check the local crime report. Theft and disturbances - which could equate to arguments / threats are often shown whenever the police are called.

When viewing the property, check the state of their garden, cars, outside decor, and upkeep. Bins dumped outside etc.

I visited at various times, day, night, weekend just to check the parking and try to get a feel for the place. You don't want to move in and find a bloody great van or similar parked on the doorstep because they've done it for years.
 
Its a nightmare, but current neighbour, anything is better ... Trust me.

I Shall update soon, Police getting involved now with my crazy current madhat neighbour too now ... But I'd be best gone from these here hills and to pastures new ASAP Me thinks ... not good, thanks for advice guys
 
Ninco! said:
I'm sure disputes must be declared when selling.
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Only if it’s got to a formal stage like reporting to Police or Council otherwise how would you know? How honest do you think people are even if it has gotten to that stage?

You’d have to get lucky and have a neighbour mention something to you if it wasn’t a formal thing.
 
Final note, thanks all ... it seems there is no perfect way to guarantee good neighbours in life.

I have been extremely unlucky in life, in that my last house was amongst chavs of the worst kind and when I moved to this area some 15 or so years ish ago, was plagued by this horrible old, eccentric lonely Lady inviting me in for cups of tea from day 1 ... felt duty obliged at first I suppose, but OMG, it was just gossip city, ... it was like, "see those people over there, they are Romanians" ... and "what do you think of Derek at number 12" ... the woman is quite mad IMHO, but soon I made excuses for not going for her Cuppa invites, and made polite excuses ... and ever since she has spat venom at me and tried to make my life a misery to the best of her mad ability ... she trys to play the victim, but is clearly unhinged ... sadly her behaviour has escalated again where she accosts my Asda and Tesco grocery delivery drivers demanding to know what I say about her ... Its nonsense, I just wish she never existed and wish I had never moved here now ... honestly.

As I say Police are involved now, but I fear its just going to get worse now once the dust settles, because society favour old eccentric Woman over guys like me that just want a quite life with no hassle.

This horrible old lady has made my life a misery for far to long and I've had enough.

Looking to move soon though, all advice taken onboard, and thanks for helpful hints ... I cant be unlucky three moves in a row, can I?
 
Only real way to guarantee it is to move remote and own the surrounding land so it can't be built on.
 
tyke_ said:
there used to be a website i'd use to check out stuff about an area. it'd give you stats such as unemployment rate, type of jobs held by people in the area, crime rate, typical householder descriptions i.e. single people in their 30's. i forget the name and i'm not sure if it still exists but might be worth googling for OP. other than that, scope out the area. litter, gardens that are tips may say a lot about the persons living there.
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It's called the Acorn Profile. I think there were around 46 different profiles if you typed in a post code, but this was back in year 2000 / early 2000s and map sites like Multimap and Streetmap had this info. I looked it up just now in 2023 and Acorn still exists (see https://acorn.caci.co.uk/) but they are cagey on what the 46 profiles are now and it doesn't seem you can look post codes up any more. Anyone please correct me if I'm wrong. Google results in general were also cagey.
 
So your neighbour is on her own and a bit lonely. You refuse a cup of tea and think she's a fruit cake.

You should have some of my old neighbours I've had. You would be round there making her a cup of tea.
 
Dress up as Laurence Fox.

Knock on your neighbours doors and say you're canvassing on behalf of reform UK.

If anyone invites you in find a different neighborhood.
 
We've had problem neighbours, leading to me installing CCTV over a weekend. And then they just mysteriously disappeared.

We're currently waiting on a local neighbour with mental health problems and a massive coke n crack addiction (funded by daily shoplifting) getting evicted but fortunately for me he seems to be making other people's lives miserable and not ours specifically.

Some can just be bellends but aren't problem neighbours as such. The ones that beep the supermarket dropoff even though it's obvious they're unloading and going to be moving soon. And some I got no idea about because we've never had an interaction of any kind.

And yet other neighbours are great, we banter about DIY jobs, get each others bins in and put them out and have a beer and an occasional chat over a barbecued burger.

It really is a lottery.
 
skyripper said:
The ones that beep the supermarket dropoff even though it's obvious they're unloading and going to be moving soon.
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It’s irrelevant how “soon” they’ll be moving if they’ve parked inconsiderately blocking someone in or blocking the road. If they’re just beeping because the truck is there that’s mental.
 
Stu999 said:
It’s irrelevant how “soon” they’ll be moving if they’ve parked inconsiderately blocking someone in or blocking the road. If they’re just beeping because the truck is there that’s mental.
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They're blocking the road, but not thru choice. Just because thats how all the other cars are parked and thats how it is where we live.
But no, johnny from down the road will be 2 mins late for something and decides he's going to honk his horn as if that makes mister delivery man move any quicker. If anything, it makes em slower.
 
Don't buy a house on a council estate.
Don't buy a house near social housing.

It's all usually pretty obvious because the houses aren't looked after.
 
One 48 said:
Final note, thanks all ... it seems there is no perfect way to guarantee good neighbours in life.

I have been extremely unlucky in life, in that my last house was amongst chavs of the worst kind and when I moved to this area some 15 or so years ish ago, was plagued by this horrible old, eccentric lonely Lady inviting me in for cups of tea from day 1 ... felt duty obliged at first I suppose, but OMG, it was just gossip city, ... it was like, "see those people over there, they are Romanians" ... and "what do you think of Derek at number 12" ... the woman is quite mad IMHO, but soon I made excuses for not going for her Cuppa invites, and made polite excuses ... and ever since she has spat venom at me and tried to make my life a misery to the best of her mad ability ... she trys to play the victim, but is clearly unhinged ... sadly her behaviour has escalated again where she accosts my Asda and Tesco grocery delivery drivers demanding to know what I say about her ... Its nonsense, I just wish she never existed and wish I had never moved here now ... honestly.

As I say Police are involved now, but I fear its just going to get worse now once the dust settles, because society favour old eccentric Woman over guys like me that just want a quite life with no hassle.

This horrible old lady has made my life a misery for far to long and I've had enough.

Looking to move soon though, all advice taken onboard, and thanks for helpful hints ... I cant be unlucky three moves in a row, can I?
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Does she have a letterbox?

On a more serious note, the older neighbours tend to be the ones with nothing to do, so they end up gossiping and trying to interfere. Do they have family and have you tried to approach them about your neighbour?
 
I did this for my current place. Just knocked on the door of the neighbours immediately either side and just chatted with them. They give you the low down on the street/area.
 
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