Nightmare Viewing!!

lellow_lorry

personally, i would after calming down go round and explain...."not your fault she blocked their drive, but they cost you a sale and a really nice neighbour". It would also help you to assess whether this is a deliberate act on their behalf to keep your house unsold, as being empty is as good to them as a detached house.

PasturesNew

lazarou_true wrote: »

Live and let live I say.

This phrase has annoyed me since a neighbour gave it to me in retort to my pointing out that their loud karaoke party that had gone on raucously until 4.30am the previous night had been a tad loud in my house ....

Live and let live ... except you hadn't let your neighbour live, or your visitor hadn't. Her life involved expecting to get into the driveway she paid for.

frank.hopper

Yeah nip round and apoligise! while your there ask her if she can 'take a key' as the council are coming round next week looking for properties to rent in your area.

jonewer

Maybe the neighbour was a tad OTT but I take a very dim view of blocking other people's access to their houses.

Generally speaking, its done by people who think they are too important to behave in a legal and considerate manner and that other people should just be reasonable, after all they will only be a few minutes (ie. half an hour nattering to the lady in the shop/viewing a house)

delmar39

Sorry to hear your news viewings are hard enough without this type of thing happending. I do get frustrated with people parking across our drive or when people make it awkward to get on it. About a year ago a one-to-one guitar business started up 2 doors up from us. A private road runs along the front of our house to the guitar business meaning that there's no parking at the business for clients. As we live on the corner plot some clients park right outside our house for the duration of their lesson or parents will drop their kids off right outside our house and then wait for 10 or 15 minutes waiting to pick up with their engine running. In the meantime the next lesson usually arrives! The whole thing did go through the planning process but the Council cannot consider the parking because it's away from the application area. So, in respect of the OPs point, in the main most clients do the decent thing and park down the side of our property but some don't and you can tell there's an air of arragance about them as they park up part blocking our drive and walk off to their lesson. There are some unwritten rules that most people follow, but not all, which is why neighbour disputes arise.

goldbyron

frank.hopper wrote: »

Yeah nip round and apoligise! while your there ask her if she can 'take a key' as the council are coming round next week looking for properties to rent in your area.

- yes I like this.

poppysarah

PasturesNew wrote: »

This phrase has annoyed me since a neighbour gave it to me in retort to my pointing out that their loud karaoke party that had gone on raucously until 4.30am the previous night had been a tad loud in my house ....

Someone near me died recently after trying to get the neighbours to quiet down a noisy party in the middle of the night.

Nice quiet neighbours are worth their weight in gold!

Icey77

Ha, I'd go over there, apologise and then "engineer" a chat where you mention that you're seriously considering selling or renting to the local Housing Association as they are desperate for 3-4 bedroom houses to place families.

I'd make the appropriate (or perhaps inappropriate) faces to let it show the type of noisy, inconsiderate, ASBO-esque families you mean and see what she thinks of that!

Perhaps with that thought in mind your neighbour will a little more pleasent to private buyers

mlz1413

Its a shame you have had this experience now the house is done up, I would have purposely let to a family with the most cars possible with that neighbours attitude.

I had 11 yrs of parking problems with a gym that I lived next door to (wasn't there when I bought) It irratitated the whatnot out of me that to go and exercise for an hour the gym members had to dump their cars outside of the gyms car park and over mine & my neighbours dropped kerb driveways.

But the first year I was nice to all of them, some years on I was not nice but everyone has limits. OP's neighbour was out of order, swearing at someone when they have not purposely blocked a driveway, just unknowingly parked to make the angle difficult is simply not necessary.

I think Iceys suggestion is great - be good or you get neighbours like yourself to live next door to.

Bufger

Parking is the one thing that never annoys me but it seems to get other people so wound up! i got asked to move my car once on a street next to mine that didnt have any yellow lines, i wasnt on a dropped kerb or anything. the woman said it was her usual spot so could i please move, i said there are no reserved parking spaces on this street.

Now if she would have been pregnant or elderly/frail then i can understand why she would want to be that much closer to her house. As it happens she was just some OCD nutter that has nothing more exciting going on in her life. She's tried to annoy me by blocking me in etc but i have absolutely no problem nudging her car out of the way. Some people are just crazy.

Anyway back on topic.. I wouldnt do anything to upset your neighbour now because if it ends in a feud you will have to declare it to anyone in future. At the moment you can just not mention it to other viewers and hope your neighbour is out of site when the viewings take place.

And to anyone that cares alot about parking spaces.... :eek: THE SKY IS FALLING! :eek: