Neighbours - should I be concerned?

mi-key

Hearing about some of these stories reminds me of something one of the estate agents asked us when we were looking around.

All the places we looked at were detatched, and most had decent size gardens with plenty of land around the property, and werent overlooked too much by other houses ( tall hedges or trees around the boundary of the back gardens etc... )

The agent said she was surprised someone as young as us were such keen gardeners - when I looked at her a bit blankly, she said 'all the places you have asked to view have had big gardens'

The penny dropped and I had to explain that the reason we wanted a big garden was because the larger your garden, the further away your neighbours are from you !

Horasio

I don't think I would have seen much action at the front of our house. It overlooks an allotment and seems very peaceful. All the noise is at the back and difficult to access if you don't live in our house.

I hope all is OK in your new home Carter, I wouldn't worry about how it looks checking it out, you are spending a fortune and want to get it right. You don't want to be saddled with horrible neighbours.

We are wanting to sell the house in the new year, as our son is probably wanting to leave home, I want to get another place down south and this place will seem massive.

I want to sell the place to Hells Angels or equivalent who will give me a good price - nothing like good revenge, selling to people who would really annoy the existing offending neighbours!

Horasio

mi-key wrote:

Hearing about some of these stories reminds me of something one of the estate agents asked us when we were looking around.

All the places we looked at were detatched, and most had decent size gardens with plenty of land around the property, and werent overlooked too much by other houses ( tall hedges or trees around the boundary of the back gardens etc... )

The agent said she was surprised someone as young as us were such keen gardeners - when I looked at her a bit blankly, she said 'all the places you have asked to view have had big gardens'

The penny dropped and I had to explain that the reason we wanted a big garden was because the larger your garden, the further away your neighbours are from you !

Good idea, you will need a good sit down mower:)

smallblueplanet

Hi Carter, if you're really concerned why not go knock on your prospective neighbours door and introduce yourself (make up some pretext if necessary?) and have a chat. You could be worrying over nothing, but 'one mans meat is another mans poison' as they say. Nowt so queer as folk......

PoorDave

If you can't persuade yourself that the neighbours are ok, then don't buy it!

Have you thought of sneakily knocking on the neighbour's door asking your questions about moving to the area and asking what it's like? Then you can see them face to face.

Maybe if you have feeling for when the vendors of the actual house will be out would be the time (i.e. if you know they're 9-5 workers take some time off perhaps and go round). This last part might avoid a weird situation when vendors see you on neighbour's doorstep!

Carter_2

Yes I think that idea is best to put my mind at rest rather than making up all sorts of scenarios in my head.

Thanks guys.

clutton_2

i also would knock on neighbours door, and ask "what are the neighbours like" - they will assume you are talking about the others - you will be able to tell a lot from that. Other idea - go to the local pub and pretend to be doing genealogical research of someone who lived in the neighbours house - folks lurve talking about their neighbours !!