harrassment....?

little_evo

Quick question...

if i call the landlord with regards to their tenants who live next door, can they claim i am harrassing them?

Fire_Fox

Possibly, if your claims are trumped up, exaggerated or ongoing. Why would you want to involve the landlord? If this is a noise or hygiene issue then you need to get in touch with Environmental Health, if there are drugs or other criminal activities you should call the police. The landlord has only very limited sanctions against tenants and could easily get in trouble for harassment if he gets involved in minor neighbour disputes (Protection from Eviction Act 1977). If the neighbours are in a fixed term there needs to be a major breach of the contract to evict at all, out of the fixed term the landlord would have to give two months notice.

little_evo

Thanks for the reply, the landlord themselves gave us their number if and when we needed it. We called and left 2 messages regarding nusiance neighbours (the Police were informed and told us to let them know and they took their number also)
Now the landlord has threatened us abusively over the telephone that he will threaten us with harrassment....damned if i do damned if i don't!

Fire_Fox

There is little a landlord can do about nuisance tenants if they are in a fixed term AST: if he were to attempt eviction via the courts he would be expected to present evidence of the tenants actions. That means police reports or Environmental Health records, depending what sort of nuisance is being created. They key is to keep on reporting the problems to the correct agency: clearly the landlord is not going to take your side so all the more reason to go through the proper channels.