Neighbours from hell !!!

pulliptears

funkycoldribena wrote: »

What attitude?,Ive got direct experience of living next to these people on 2 seperate occasions and it aint fun,have you lived in ha?

And those experiences prompt you to call all HA customers scum does it?

funkycoldribena

pulliptears wrote: »

And those experiences prompt you to call all HA customers scum does it?

Where did I say all???
But its far,far more prevelent in ha than any other type of housing.

greendollar

We had the pretty much the same problem where we are for 5 years , tried to do everything by the book but got absolutely nowhere with the authorities . The police would say its a council problem , council would say its a police problem .
We found that they would bend over backwards to help and make excuses for the retards (we acknowledge they're a bit different , and to LOL respect their lifestyle ).
Just keep making a nuisance of yourself , report everthing , even though you think your not getting anywhere .
In the end they got fed up with the police and council visiting , when the !!!!!! father was eventually convicted of abusing his kids they finally moved on .
Your neighbour sounds very much like ours , likes to be the centre of attention , most probably the biggest !!!!!!!!ter you've ever heard and tries to get the other neighbours on his side .
Don;t take any abuse personally , the retard craves conflict and if you ignore him he'll soon move onto someone else to get his "fix" , if he can't find another target he'll turn on his family and abuse them .
I could never understand why his missus put up with the abuse but soon realised that she was just as bad but it was the kids I felt sorry for , they stand no chance and in a few years time will be breeding their own !!!!!! kids that will be telling their neighbours to "!!!! off , my dad says I can do what I !!!!ing like " .

4743hudsonj

Just a suggestion but how about reporting one at a time for different issues. So Contact Environmental health about noise at 120 and the Department for work and pensions for the benefit fraud at 124.

Then two months later do the same but the other way round? That way they cant make the link.

scurr

Awful neighbours come in all shapes and sizes - and not all are HA clients.

We owned a lovely detached house surrounded by a wall, which should have meant neighbour problems were impossible - until they moved in next door, took a dislike to us and proceeded to make our lives a misery - nasty comments over the wall, staring up at windows, all petty, pathetic, ignorable stuff - progressing to phoning my boss to say I shouldn't be in a position of authority, phoning social services to say my husband neglected our daughter when she got back from school - because shock, horror, I don't get back from work till 5 (the funny bit being tht they hadn't realised we'd moved her to a school nearer my work and she was actually coming to me after school and coming home with me)

What made me cave in and put the house on the market (at the worst possible time, 2 years ago - such a bad time that we only had the choice of 2 houses to buy!!) was when they'd provoked an altercation, going out and abusing my husband as he put the bins out (he stayed calm because they were so ridiculous - telling us to go back to our smelly house, to have some sex because I was frustrated etc - I stayed calm because I knew they were trying to make us react) - they knew that it was a breach of the peace and I would call the police, so they waited 6 days so they could go away for a long weekend which was obviously planned - then told the police I had called them gayboys. They are a gay couple but that's never been an issue for us. Since that's a homophobic incident I was arrested, charged, fingerprinted, DNA swabbed and photographed and put in the cells for 4 hours until the police let me go until court the next day - where I spent a total of about 30 seconds before it was thrown out.

My work had to pay for a replacement for me for 2 days, if it had gone badly I would have lost my job - which is what the neighbours wanted - but police and lawyer advice was to move house as there is NOTHING the legal system could do to protect me from them doing exactly the same thing again. Luckily for me there was an extensive papertrail of problems we'd had with these neighbours - including an ASB mediation session which they used as a platform to slag me off and the inexperienced mediators did nothing to stop it.

Lesson learned - wary of everyone and very aware of the powers minorities have.

bargainbetty

If you speak to the ASB team and the Police Safer Neighbourhood team, ask them to come to a meeting at your home, dressed casually. Once inside, you can go about your normal business, and let them experience the neighbours from hell.

The HA is perfectly able to deal with problem tenants - one of the basic leasehold contract terms is that they will not commit illegal acts or breach the peace at the property. You can ask the HA to set up some form of surveillance (sound recording or CCTV) to catch the behaviour, or to ask for a professional witness to attend the site and establish if the behaviour consitututes an unreasonable disruption to your home life.

If they are acting illegally, the evidence will be there, and an immediate NOSP/eviction notice can be issued. Injunctions against the family can be issued stating that they are not permitted to communciate with any of the neighbours for a period of six months after the eviction (you won't be named, or targeted.) Alternatively, it may be sufficient for you to claim harassment and distress and get relocated yourself.

A friend of mine does a lot of PW jobs for HAs. It's one thing at a time, but the people get moved, ASBO'd so their behaviour is recognised (it helps them calm down more often than you would expect) and can be engaged with parenting assistance etc. They may genuinely not realise how disruptive their noise is - not everyone is bothered by it, but usually when we are at the point of knocking on the door, the confrontation is already there!

Good luck

dgbnlm

hi there
our lives and neighbours lives have been miserable for coming up 2 years.we have serious asbo as they call it but its bnot its crime.we have had constant meeting with the housing association,police,council and local mp .we did manage an asbo that has constantly been broken,he moves to another address be a good boy then the judge let's him back to his own property he owns and it starts again.is there really anybody out there with authority that helps.he has frighted all the community here,our spirits are low,our lives resolve whats he and his girlfriend going to, next.how much more,or does nobody with authority care,we all live an existence not a life here any help on this one.

FOURCANDLES_2

Morgan_Ree wrote: »

Rent privately?

Best thing I ever did was giving up my HA house.
OK i might be paying double in rent but It's worth it to get away from my ex neighbours from hell

ETA
Sorry I should read before I post!
Does you local council offer a rent deposit scheme?

My sister bought a house for 350 k and ended up with a neighbour from hell for 2 years until they sold , My house is HA one of 4 houses in a village only mine is HA the others have been bought and sold a few times the one 2 from me was a hell neighbour who was a builder played his radio in the garden full blast all through the summer, burned rubbish on the hottest day a complete pain in the arss and thick as pig !!!!. When he left all of us waved them good bye with a gesture that suited his up bringing. NOT ALL IS ALWAYS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE.

dealer_wins

I genuinely feel for anyone who has horrible neighbours. I have suffered a bit when I lived with my ex and its not nice.

It amazes me how many inconsiderate and nasty people there are out there it really does.

FatVonD

Re your neighbours, Social Services should be your first call if everything you've said is correct, however miserable they are making you their children should be anybody's first priority.

After that I'd set about reporting them for benefit fraud but make a few mistakes in the information you supply, if they're as thick as you make them sound they'll rule you out if you get something wrong that you would very easily know about them.

Spell the bloke from school's name wrong, get his first name wrong. Give them misleading information about the times he out of the house. It might slow them down a bit proving it but at least he'll then be on their radar and while he's ranting that they (for instance) are saying he works nights when he doesn't he'll not be pointing the finger at you for shopping him.

For the woman the other side, don't report her, report him if you know where he lives and say that you know he is actually living in your road but don't give an actual number so it looks like one of his neighbours have shopped him.

Above all, if you do report them tell nobody, not even friends or family.