Nightmare Viewing!!

lazarou_true

The thing is though, when we lived there, visitors to their house often parked blocking our drive. We would either ask nicely or park up the road until they had gone. Live and let live I say. I agree it can be annoying and she shouldn't have parked there when we have a drive. I take responsibilty for not pointing that out at the time. There was definately no need for her to be to be verbally abusive to anyone.

Britwife

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

Exactly. And who knows how long the OP's neighbour has had inconsiderate prats parking over their driveway (whether to do with the OP or not).

It pis ses me off when people do this (even with space in the road so as no need to do so in the first place) so I can see where the neighbour is coming from here, regardless of their behaviour being a bit out of order.

It was worse when I was nearer the end of my pregnancy and our other neigbors (childminder) parents would park half across the drive.

ffacoffipawb

Britwife wrote: »

It was worse when I was nearer the end of my pregnancy and our other neigbors (childminder) parents would park half across the drive.

Shows a lack of respect for people. I don't understand the mentality really.

I'd show them a similar lack of respect - see how they like it.

tartanterra

Last year, my daughter had a bad fall whilst playing in the garden :eek: and we had to get her to hospital. Unfortunately, I discovered that (an unknown) someone was parked across my driveway and I couldn't get the car out. We then had to spend 15 minutes waiting on a taxi with my daughter in agony.

When we got back home (with my daughter, who by this time had a cast on her arm), the car was gone. The driver is probably unaware of the problem they caused and is probably still merrily parking across people's driveways as they think "It's ok, I'll only be a few minutes". Now THAT, is utterly rude, selfish and ultimately self centred.
If we all stopped to consider those around us, the world would be a nicer place........:T

ffacoffipawb

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

Shows a lack of respect for people. I don't understand the mentality really.

I'd show them a similar lack of respect - see how they like it.

We had this in our current property and our last one.

Thankfully our p1key neighbours have had to sell their house last summer because they couldn't afford to keep it any more and they have gone, along with their p1key cement mixer. The remaining houses in the road have increased in value by about £30k as a result.

We all had a party!

They are renting now, God help their new neighbours.

ffacoffipawb

tartanterra wrote: »

Last year, my daughter had a bad fall whilst playing in the garden :eek: and we had to get her to hospital. Unfortunately, I discovered that (an unknown) someone was parked across my driveway and I couldn't get the car out. We then had to spend 15 minutes waiting on a taxi with my daughter in agony.

In that situation, you would be justified in smashing a window, taking the handbrake off, and pushing the car out of the way.

That's what I would do in an emergency situation like that.

tartanterra

ffacoffipawb wrote: »

In that situation, you would be justified in smashing a window, taking the handbrake off, and pushing the car out of the way.

That's what I would do in an emergency situation like that.

Believe me, I considered it, but I would probably have ended up being prosecuted for criminal damage.......:(

chodges84

Could you ask the EA to advise buyers to park on the drive?

Although, as a buyer that would make me suspicious as to why, so you may need to come up with an excuse.

joolley

chodges84 wrote: »

Could you ask the EA to advise buyers to park on the drive?

Although, as a buyer that would make me suspicious as to why, so you may need to come up with an excuse.

I don't think you'd need an excuse at all. I spent the last 3 years(!!) house hunting. Thankfully I've bought now. While looking, I have had EAs tell me not to park in neighbour's drives etc. On one viewing of a derelict house the EA specifically said that that the neighbour didn't like it. I never thought anything of it and just didn't park in his drive.

Kittenonthekeys

Lazarou - you might like to hear about our similar little experience in 2009 - and the outcome.
Your neighbour is a moron so just try to avoid any situation where she could have cause to moan and be abusive.
Our present house had been on the market for 3 months with no offer and a very enthusiastic viewer turned up who asked if he could bring his g/f back for a second viewing. We said yes of course.
As we were both out at work when this couple wanted to come round, we asked our agent to conduct the second viewing.
Couple duly turned up 5 mins before the agent so had to wait outside the front door.............
Enter nosey next door neighbour stage left. Now, it was no mean feat for him to sniff out the fact that there were would-be buyers outside our front door, as our house is surrounded by a 7ft hedge - but sniff 'em out he did, as he has radar for these things....
The next day, we get a phone call from the agent saying the would-be (more like wouldn't-be) buyers had said to her, "We love the house and would have made an offer but we're not living next door to HIM, he's much too friendly and really overpowering. He'd drive us mad!"
Well, when we heard, we were livid! :mad::mad:
I wanted to go next door and shove a red hot poker up his - er - trouser leg but Mr. Kitten, being a much nicer person, decided to go and have a man-to-man chat with him.
He was/is just a classic type of nosey neighbour straight out of Central Casting and although he's pretty harmless he does tend to treat our back garden as an extension of his own and just sort of appears there every now and again (there is gated rear access all the way along our row of houses.) One day last summer he suddenly appeared with a can of WD40 and oiled our patio door hinges while we were sitting in the house because he said the squeaking was getting on his nerves and why hadn't we done it?
He had previously told us he didn't want us to move away and would try and put any buyers off. Well he had succeeded.
Anyway, he told us he hadn't said 'anything much' to our buyers (yeah, right) but in future would keep out of the way when we had viewings.

He kept his word but then winter came, thank goodness, and he was indoors when we had viewings. We are now SSTC so yes, you will get another offer and no, you certainly don't have to 'declare' anything to anyone. There is nothing to declare anyway. You will get more interest and an offer, so don't worry.