Neighbour from hell causing prob's with sale

olly300

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

How old is the "nutter" - could it be dementia setting in?

If replying directly or via her solicitor always put "without prejudice" on your letters if you are worried about them being used against you.

There are cases where "without prejudice" letters can be shown to the court, and in this case you definitely don't want to put this on your own letters.

If you do any reply the solicitor makes to your letters is also "without prejudice" and the OP needs to show that the neighbour is acting unreasonably. By putting this on your own letters then you are basically trying to stop any court seeing how unreasonable the neighbour is.

I suggest you write your letters making them short and straight to the point without any flowery English. And Fire fox 's suggest is a good one as it shows you are trying to resolve the issue but as also suggested write any letters to the neighbour's solicitor.

Your neighbour will eventually run out of money. So the more letters you bombard her solicitor with reasonable suggests to resolve the issue the more it will cost her.

olly300

Sunnyday wrote: »

Could you borrow a friend children at times when you know that your neighbour will be in and perhaps play twister or musical chairs

No need to do that borrow two children between 2 and 4. They will make enough noise without actually having to play any particular games.

loopy_lass

ohhhhh what about turning the tv up and going out leaving it on.... or say that you personally know the people intersted in buying and they have had problems with noisy neighbours and want to live somewhere very quiet..... as they dont like or make a lot of noise...



loops

zaphod_beeblebrox_2

My Girlfriend’s just got over BC, hey life's too short

It's clear this neighbour has a (past) grudge with you

Don’t stress out anymore, chill and move on, at any cost

ooobedoo

I can't advise you, you have already had some excellent advice so I am not needed but....

I can tell you about a miserable experience DH and I had before we moved, our downstairs neighbours were very unhappy and seemed to go out drinking-alot, often with very noisy parties afterwards and then turned the music up-at about 1am, often meaning that upstairs to us thought that we had music on in our bedroom when it was on in the kitchen downstairs.

After a heavy night of having to listening to loud arguments and loud music, I text the girl upstairs asking if she minded me putting some really loud music on at about 8am-all within licenced hours on the agreement we had. She didn't mind so I actually got the speakers facing down and whacked the volume up and put GunsNRoses on-at top volume and went out shopping for a few hours...they didn't do it again!

This is what I did(and I was younger, pregnant and sleep deprived), I wouldnt advise you doing it at all but thought you might have a little laugh.

never_enough

She does sound like a fruit loop & I can only imagine how frustrating it must be for you. Previous posters have given some good advice, I agree with the suggestion that you go via her solicitor (no trumped up intimidation allegations, plus costs her) but also don't actually do anything that puts you in the wrong, however tempting it must be. I love the idea of cranking up the music, or Irish dancing, but it's just playing into her hands. Save that for the period between exchange & completion...
Is there *any* chance that she could be hearing noise from elsewhere & think it's coming from you? Do you have any other new neighbours that arrived around the same time? I just wonder as I once had a very grumpy upstairs neighbour who phoned me several times to say my music was too loud. I couldn't hear it, but actually the noise was coming from the flat 2 floors above her, in the attached building. That was two large Victorian joined houses that had been converted into flats & sound seemed to be travelling down the chimney.

suebfg

I'm really sorry to hear of your story and I had a very similar experience at a stage in my life when I really could have done without it and a neighbour with a grudge disrupting our sale - buyers understandably get cold feet with these sorts of things.

My advice would be to move on and rent your flat out. It is very hard to live close to a neighbour who has done this to you - believe me, it will drive you out of your mind. And in the current market, chances of selling are slim, whereas the rental market is quite buoyant.

(And if your sale should fall through, when you do come to sell again, don't put a For Sale sign up).

But best of luck with whatever you decide to do

mrluke

u sure this aint a polite way the neighbour is asking u 2 fix ur bed lol ?

pinkshoes

Renting it out might not help, as this woman would no doubt harrass the tenants and drive them nuts too, causing you to have long void periods!

You've been nice, you've done everything you can, so now you need to give your neighbour a good reason why she needs to cooperate. Go round and see her (if she'll talk) and tell her that you're OH has had cancer, and you just want to move on with your lives, which means moving. Ask her nicely if she'll cooperate with the sale, as you'd really like to move. Tell her you'll be moving anyway, but if you can't sell it, then your cousin "Jethro" has agreed to rent it, and that you're sure the two of them can come to some agreement over drumming practice times and band rehersals. Obviously you really don't want to have to do this to her, but she's not leaving you any option...

Or... get a third party (with 2 people) to come round, one of them to walk/jump round in your flat, and the other to listen downstairs to see if the problem actually exists. Perhaps she's mistaking the floorboards creaking with heating pipes expanding and contracting?

LandyAndy

markelock wrote: »

I wonder how she could. What did the solicitors letter actually say? Anything about abatement notices, or the environmental protection act?

Do you have anything in writing (you will have the invoice for the work done to secure the floorboards), that proves you do not need, or indeed cannot have any further work done to soundproof your floor?

there is an excellent repost from a poster on this forum. it refers people to the case in Arkel vs Pressdram. That would be my first response to the solicitors.

can you not pop a letter through her door? or a christmas card? invitation for a drink somewhere? meet on neutral ground?

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That'll be me then.

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