Would you buy a house when loud music from next door?

marking_bad

Cant you get onto the council about such things these days?

wessexw

I'd always think twice about where the neighbouring properties are rented out anyway, they're more likely not to be kept very well externally, more likely to be noisey and more likely to have a constant change in neighbours. I know thats all very stereotypical but I've spent many years living in houseshares and have been in ones where I'd hate to have been a neighbour and also in ones where you'd barely have known that anyone was even in the property. However the nice houseshares can quite quickly turn to something else given a personnel change or two so I'd always be more dubious about having a neighbouring rented property.

mr_fishbulb

marking_bad wrote: »

Cant you get onto the council about such things these days?

I think it depends on how bad the dancing is.

marking_bad

mr_fishbulb wrote: »

I think it depends on how bad the dancing is.

Mine would definitely be an arrestable offence.

But for the noise, we have asbos and public decency orders and all kinds of nonsesne don't we?

marking_bad

wessexw wrote: »

I'd always think twice about where the neighbouring properties are rented out anyway, they're more likely not to be kept very well externally, more likely to be noisey and more likely to have a constant change in neighbours. I know thats all very stereotypical but I've spent many years living in houseshares and have been in ones where I'd hate to have been a neighbour and also in ones where you'd barely have known that anyone was even in the property. However the nice houseshares can quite quickly turn to something else given a personnel change or two so I'd always be more dubious about having a neighbouring rented property.

And tenants always need to be wary of snooty, cliquey neighbours.

One of the best things about renting is not spending eternity with a bunch of toffee nosed, pretentious snobs.

LittleMissAspie

wessexw wrote: »

I'd always think twice about where the neighbouring properties are rented out anyway, they're more likely not to be kept very well externally, more likely to be noisey and more likely to have a constant change in neighbours. I know thats all very stereotypical but I've spent many years living in houseshares and have been in ones where I'd hate to have been a neighbour and also in ones where you'd barely have known that anyone was even in the property. However the nice houseshares can quite quickly turn to something else given a personnel change or two so I'd always be more dubious about having a neighbouring rented property.

I live in a group of 5 houses, 4 of them are rented out. We never hear a peep from anyone else, barely even see them, sometimes it's as if we live here alone. The 5th house is owner-unoccupied. It's empty with a forest in the garden and the windows seem to be crumbling away. There are two abandoned cars, one in the house's allocated parking spot and one in the [STRIKE]jungle[/STRIKE] garden. I would rather buy next to any of the tenants than the owner of that house!

Milliewilly

marking_bad wrote: »

And tenants always need to be wary of snooty, cliquey neighbours.

One of the best things about renting is not spending eternity with a bunch of toffee nosed, pretentious snobs.

Toffee nosed pretentious snobs with hundreds of thousands of pounds tied up. I think they have a right to be miffed if tenants who play loud music and don't care about the property move in and lower the tone.

wessexw

Oh well, I guess my experience of renting is different then

marking_bad

Milliewilly wrote: »

Toffee nosed pretentious snobs with hundreds of thousands of pounds tied up. I think they have a right to be miffed if tenants who play loud music and don't care about the property move in and lower the tone.

And tenants have no rights?

Sorry, your argument holds no water, I have as little time for bad neighbours who are renting than I do for bad neighbours who have a mortgage.

Milliewilly

marking_bad wrote: »

And tenants have no rights?

Sorry, your argument holds no water, I have as little time for bad neighbours who are renting than I do for bad neighbours who have a mortgage.

Where did I mention Tenants rights? Your posts imply that tenants have the right to play loud music and let the property fall into disrepair and anyone who objects is a snob and a cliquey neighbour. So being a snob makes you a bad neighbour then?

I refer you to your post #16.