Neighbours affecting the sale of our house

nickinoo

Well I have to say it would put me off buying your place no matter how lovely it was.

silvercar

As a potential buyer, I would be more put off by hearing of a neighbour dispute than seeing a van outside.

clutton_2

i am always tempted to write a friendly explanatory letter first to folks i might want to have a "difficult" conversation with later on - it gives them time to fully understand the situation and to review it properly before coming up with a response of their own. it is also a lot less confrontational

jazzyjustlaw

Watch those Solicitors they will milk you!! I said to obtain legal advice not issue proceedings.

Surely obtaining one appointment to find out ones legal position is not going cause a Solicitor to milk you.

PJD

jazzyjustlaw wrote:

Watch those Solicitors they will milk you!! I said to obtain legal advice not issue proceedings.

Surely obtaining one appointment to find out ones legal position is not going cause a Solicitor to milk you.

You can also get half an hour free, or contact the local CAB

kenshaz

CashSaver wrote:

I'm not talking about a small white van. This is a large extended transit in a small culd de sac. He had the business before he moved here. It isn't a suitable place to run a business from. We have even tried to help find him a lock up - but he's not interested.

The van is here at all hours of the day. It completely blocks out the view from our living room window. I doubt you'd say the same if you lived here.

OK valid points,I agree,you have a point

santana-mx3

We are also in a quiet cul-de-sac and neighbours park their vans in front of our house (instead of blocking their own views) - one van spoils the view out of our front wndows, the other blocks the view of the best part of our front garden (after we spent a considerable amount of time lanscaping it) from the road. We never liked this and thought it was rather mean of them but we never spoke to them about it because there's no rule about who can park where and we didn't think it was worth making a fuss about - small things like this can sometimes escalate into major feuds. Indeed some other neighbours much further down the road have fallen out with each other over parking issues.

When our house went up for sale, the vans continued to be parked there including when our buyer came for both the first and second viewing. They didn't bother the buyer in the slightest though.

I don't think it's worth arguing with the neighbours if you can avoid it, especially when you have to declare disputes. If it had been a friendly neighbour you could have had a nice word with and asked a favour of it would have been ok but that's not the case. Hopefully someone who wants to buy your house won't be bothered or will think they can sort it out later with the neighbour.

Woby_Tide

yet when we move we all want a nice cheap deal on the removals and that friendly bloke down the street has a great big van!

Is a big shame that they have become petty about it rather than agreeing to store it elsewhere or even attempt to move it to cause less of a nuisance. We have a house a few doors away that operate private ambulances so have a couple outside their house overnight. When their neighbours were selling they offered to park round the corner if need be. They also been able to use their paramedic skills to help a couple of neighbours overnight too. Shame that people/neighbours aren't always so considerate

Supernova

Had a problem with a guy up the road running an ice-cream business a few years ago. Must have been about 25 commercial and private vehicles in his front and back gardens and in all the surrounding streets. The council and police got involved, fined him and impounded equipment etc. He's still there but is now somewhat more considerate.

Action was brought under the change of use legislation for residential property.

claz

had exactly the same problem a couple of weeks ago but i am afraid to say it was our property and next doors (shared drive well no fence any way)

the man across the road runs a minibus company and he came back and was unable to get down his drive due to the ammount of cars both our two houses have (and we both had family round at the time) instead of asking nicely to move the van he started shouting and bawling about how this was rediculous etc and that he was calling the police

i said okay thats fine, the police came round about an hour later and spoke to myself and my partner and next door

she had also spoken to the man who made the complaint first adn she agreed with us that he was irate an abusive and gave HIM a warning!!!

made me laugh as he turned around and said i am finding it diffuicult to drive now as i am a old man so my partners answer was well him shouldn't be taxing kids backwards and forwards to school every day then!! made me laugh even more when he pointed out to the police officer that even though i can't walk i can still park better than him and i haven't passed my test yet

anyway getting to the point, there are schemes in certain areas called community safety etc, these are the people who usually deal with things like this, however, i would ask you estate agent if there has been any feedback about the van do some investigating with the council etc and see if the deeds state he can run a business from there

ask nicely one more time and if you have managed to prove that he can't park there then state clearly why he can't if he gets shirty

oh had another idea, buy a old banger for £200 say and park it there yourself adn then he can't park there as long as it is taxed tested and insured he can't do anything about it!!!