Need help with letter to HA

gabyjane

Ok will try to cut this shorter than it could be lol..
We bought our house a year and a half ago..it is SO and we love it! the neighbours are lovely and the area nice and quiet..BUT there is one neighbour who is quite frankly a real pain in the rear.
He assaults his wife/girlfriend and it has happened a few times since we moved in, we have never had any dealings with him as the poor neighbour below them has it all to cope with..i have on the last occasion reported him to the police as he tried to get in the house when she didnt want him to and did this by smashing the front door in with his garden spade...you see what an idiot he is..
they are council tenants and i figured the support from the street would do some good in getting rid but no he seems invinsible so we are all waiting for him to put a foot wrong!..
Anyway to the point!! The door has been smashed for well over 5 weeks now and we have all had enough..firllty they are very new nice houses and his looks dreadful, smashed door pane with glass all over the road which they refuse to clear up.
SO i have rung their HA numerous times within the last 5 weeks to get it sorted as no one else seem to..have been fobbed off with rubbish reasons ( need to measure up, need to match glass over and over) and lost my rag yesterday when was told 'oh a few more days'..then got a call from some manager apologising and they will deal with it..
It was done about half hour ago and there is a different pane of glass in the door and it has now taken what looks like the paint off the door as has been taped up for so long..call me a snob biut it looks so out of place and awful.

Dh said why couldnt they match the glass seeing as houses are not so old..get him to pay for it (as he hasn't )
Get him to clear up the mess so the kids and animals dont hurt themselves..but no i guess we are expected to do it..

So i am going to write expressing my disgust in service, that fact he is totally disliked and shouldnt live there and the fact that they seem to not be bothered about their new houses being smashed up until neighbours ring and ring...help please..

Pepzofio

If it is a joint tenancy then the HA will not be able to do anything to remove him unless his partner takes out an injunction or court order against him due to the Domestic Violence. Unfortunately, even if he batters her senseless every Friday, legally as a joint tenant he has an equal right to housing as far as the HA are concerned. If partner wants to go down the route of reporting DV they can support her, but without her on board they're stuck. You never know, maybe they are in the middle of doing exactly that, but don't feel the need to share such personal information with her neighbours...?

HA tenants have the same repair rights and responsibilities as private tenants, in fact they are normally responsible for internal redecorations as well. The HA may still carry out work that the tenant is responsible for, but this will normally be as a rechargeable repair. The delay could have been caused by the HA waiting for payment before they proceed, or they could have had problems arranging access with the tenants - neither situation being something that it would be appropriate to divulge to you.

And I'm sorry, but you do sound like a bit of a snob. Fair enough being concerned about his behaviour and the glass in the road, but chasing up someone else's repair job for weeks on end then complaining because the paint's been taken off someone else's door and the glass doesn't match the rest of the street?? :rolleyes:

soul619

omgg you snob!

its really nice your concerned for the poor woman but get over yourself the doors been fixed! its nothin to do with you so writing to the ha to complain about the way a job was done on someone elses property is abit lame!

bet ur the sort that writes to the bbc if u see to blokes kiss on tv lol

Ulfar

soul619 wrote: »

omgg you snob!

its really nice your concerned for the poor woman but get over yourself the doors been fixed! its nothin to do with you so writing to the ha to complain about the way a job was done on someone elses property is abit lame!

bet ur the sort that writes to the bbc if u see to blokes kiss on tv lol

Its not about being a snob its about taking pride in your area and community.

Snobbish would have been to complain that they were living next to council tenants who had done nothing wrong. The man in question is not only disrupting his other halfs life but effecting the quite enjoyment of neighbours.

As for using the text speak to insult someone that is highly ironic.

Pepzofio

Ulfar wrote: »

Its not about being a snob its about taking pride in your area and community.

Snobbish would have been to complain that they were living next to council tenants who had done nothing wrong. The man in question is not only disrupting his other halfs life but effecting the quite enjoyment of neighbours.

As for using the text speak to insult someone that is highly ironic.

Errr...

gabyjane wrote: »

they are council tenants and i figured the support from the street would do some good in getting rid

OK, well definitely a self-involved busybody, at any rate. The poor partner has an abusive husband to cope with, the HA have a nightmare tenant constantly attracting complaints from the neighbours (and arguably another nightmare tenant poking her nose into someone else's repair jobs), yet all OP is bothered about is how the glass in her neighbour's front door does not match the rest of the street's and that there's a bit of paint missing! DV is a very sensitive issue, and just because the HA are not informing OP on all developments does not mean they are doing nothing.

I still think phrases like "there is a different pane of glass in the door... it looks so out of place and awful" are a bit snobby. And if you're going to sniffily comment on other people's use of language, you'd do well to look up 'effect' in the dictionary - I think you'll find it's a noun, not a verb, hence there is no such word as 'effecting'. Oh, and it's 'other half's life' and 'quiet enjoyment', whilst we're in pendant-mode.

Cissi

Pepzofio wrote: »

And if you're going to sniffily comment on other people's use of language, you'd do well to look up 'effect' in the dictionary - I think you'll find it's a noun, not a verb, hence there is no such word as 'effecting'. Oh, and it's 'other half's life' and 'quiet enjoyment', whilst we're in pendant-mode.

Did you mean pedantry?

(just joking, I agree with you - apart from the bit in text speak which is a pet hate of mine ) - edited because I realised that you weren't the author of the post above in text speak, but I agree with the main contents of that post as well!

gabyjane

Pepzofio Ok no he's not a joint tenant and his stupid wife or whatever she is actually now has most of the street hoping she deserves what she gets tbh, as for not wanting to share with the neighbours well that's a laugh..maybe they would like to think about that when they are ringing ours and other neighbours doorbells at 4am or she is screaming the street down?
As for repair rights well they seem to be exempt to that too, the HA told me they are dealing with it not the tenants which disgusts me tbh..they get a free brand new house and dont even have to pay for any damages they do..what is the world coming to, no wonder we have such rif raf these days.
I found out the reasons behind the delay to it all and it is pretty lame i can tell you.
I am not interested actually whether i sound like a snob or not, me and dh have worked blxxdy hard to buy this house and don't see why we should put up with neighbours like this who don't pay a penny towards their issues and make everyones lives hard.

soul619 lets hope you don't ever have a problem with your neighbours..you will no doubt get lots of sympathy if that is the case..or not if you post on here obviously.

Ulfar thankyou someone who understands what i'm talking about! I am the neighbourhood co-ordinator now too so I feel i am allowed to get involved when it annoys other residents too..

Pepzofio abusive partner yes..brains no..this has gone on for years as happened where she used to live a friend tells me..i'm sorry but what a sad pathetic life to lead when you have to come home to being beaten up..i have sympathy dont get me wrong but not when she finds it all a great laugh calling the police out and then denying it etc when we have all witnessed it..i can tell you one thing the police feel exactly the same as me..but we won't go there!
We have lived here for over a year and a half and you are telling me they may be 'dealing with it'??? hmm either very very slow or very useless either way it is not good enough when kids have to see such things and no one wants them here..there are plenty of well deserving people on the waiting list i'm sure who would be very grateful of a nice new house and would look after it too. Yes i find the door annoying and i found this funny tonight as when my dd got home from school she spotted the door and said 'it looks dumb with different glass why couldn't they put our stuff in' that's from a child!! tbh if you saw the houses and the street you would see what i was getting at..but you wont so we will agree to disagree..
Oh and picking up on others spelling..pathetic..mine is probably spelt wrong, so what you knew what Ulfar was trying to say.

At the end of the day it boils down to having a neighbour that the street don't like for good reason, to go as far as smashing his front door in and leaving it annoys me and others..the glass all over the pavement was a hazard and if i'm a snob so be it..id'e rather be that than a bad neighbour.