Selling house, anti-social HA residents next door.

hyweljones71

Hello all,

This has probably been posted here on many occasions so I apologize if I'm repeating an earlier thread.

I bought my house nearly 5 years ago thinking we were buying in a fairly decent mainly private first time buyer area. A year after we moved in the local HA bought the house next door. Since that time we have had at 4 different occupants and in all honesty only one of them has been decent.

Before the current occupants moved in, the house had been empty for a few months (bliss!) and we decided to put the house up for sale and move to a larger property that we could now afford.

This is where the problems have started. Firstly, we have had several viewings but no commitments. Not supprised in the current climate but there you go. However, our main problem is that the current occupants next door have anti-social tendancies. Most weekends now we are afraid that they are going to throw an all night party and we have seen drugs being taken there. They play hardcore dance music while we are trying to sleep and most of the following day. The language used and characters going there are extremely distasteful and our neighbour (the other side of them) who we are friendly with has observed convicted drug dealers going there.

We are now stuck in a dilema of confronting the issue by contacting the HA and police about these matters and then having to divulge these details on the particulars of the sale (if I ever get that far!) or just living in misery with it.

My other gripe is that the HA were able to buy this house in the first place. I have offered mine to them and have recieved a reply stating that there basically isn't enough money in the pot. Even more annoying is that they paid £9000 more than we paid for our house and they have 1 less bedroom!

I'm really upset as I now feel that the HA has not only devalued my home, put anti-social tennants next door and basically made my house unsellable.

Do I have any rights regarding this and what do you think I should do in this circumstance?

Thanks for taking the time to read this,

Hywel.

lincroft1710

If you don't contact police, HA or Environmental Health (noise problem) how will anything get done?

PasturesNew

lincroft1710 wrote: »

If you don't contact police, HA or Environmental Health (noise problem) how will anything get done?

Catch 22 ... once you do that it's on record.

Martha42

Get someone else to report them

hyweljones71

Thats the dilema. If I complain about the problem and then go to sale, I have to declare it in the "have you had any neighbourly disputes" section.

If I go ahead and complain and then not declare it, I would be liable to buy the house back!

Its a nightmare!

hyweljones71

Martha42 wrote: »

Get someone else to report them

Have considered asking our neighbour the other side of them to do that but its a bit cheeky!

Milliewilly

hyweljones71 wrote: »

Hello all,

This has probably been posted here on many occasions so I apologize if I'm repeating an earlier thread.

I bought my house nearly 5 years ago thinking we were buying in a fairly decent mainly private first time buyer area. A year after we moved in the local HA bought the house next door. Since that time we have had at 4 different occupants and in all honesty only one of them has been decent.

Before the current occupants moved in, the house had been empty for a few months (bliss!) and we decided to put the house up for sale and move to a larger property that we could now afford.

This is where the problems have started. Firstly, we have had several viewings but no commitments. Not supprised in the current climate but there you go. However, our main problem is that the current occupants next door have anti-social tendancies. Most weekends now we are afraid that they are going to throw an all night party and we have seen drugs being taken there. They play hardcore dance music while we are trying to sleep and most of the following day. The language used and characters going there are extremely distasteful and our neighbour (the other side of them) who we are friendly with has observed convicted drug dealers going there.

We are now stuck in a dilema of confronting the issue by contacting the HA and police about these matters and then having to divulge these details on the particulars of the sale (if I ever get that far!) or just living in misery with it.

My other gripe is that the HA were able to buy this house in the first place. I have offered mine to them and have recieved a reply stating that there basically isn't enough money in the pot. Even more annoying is that they paid £9000 more than we paid for our house and they have 1 less bedroom!

I'm really upset as I now feel that the HA has not only devalued my home, put anti-social tennants next door and basically made my house unsellable.

Do I have any rights regarding this and what do you think I should do in this circumstance?

Thanks for taking the time to read this,

Hywel.

You have my sympathies. Another example of Councils thinking mixing low lifes into nice neighbourhoods will somehow make them better citizens by giving them something to aspire to. They just carry on making misery for decent people in their new surroundings.

hyweljones71

Milliewilly wrote: »

You have my sympathies. Another example of Councils thinking mixing low lifes into nice neighbourhoods will somehow make them better citizens by giving them something to aspire to. They just carry on making misery for decent people in their new surroundings.

We actually do feel like victims here. If we weren't selling I'd be strait on to the authorities. I actually think I couldn't be in a worse case scenario.

BitterAndTwisted

The neighbours on the other side of the property may not be the only people in your street worried about this situation. Why don't you speak to them all? It could be that once they realise that none of them are alone that a combined effort might be worth undertaking. Where the illegal drug-taking is concerned I'd be tempted to phone the police once one of their mad parties is underway. Making some calls to the cops does not, I believe, constitute a "dispute".

Milliewilly

hyweljones71 wrote: »

We actually do feel like victims here. If we weren't selling I'd be strait on to the authorities. I actually think I couldn't be in a worse case scenario.

You could always report them anonymously.

hyweljones71

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

The neighbours on the other side of the property may not be the only people in your street worried about this situation. Why don't you speak to them all? It could be that once they realise that none of them are alone that a combined effort might be worth undertaking. Where the illegal drug-taking is concerned I'd be tempted to phone the police once one of their mad parties is underway. Making some calls to the cops does not, I believe, constitute a "dispute".

I have spoken to the guy on the end (we are a row of 4) and explained the situation to him. He was sympathetic and said there was no need for this as it had always been a tidy row and pleasant to live in. There is a bungalow opposite who I share a hedge with and I am considering asking their opinion.