will I be stuck in flat forever?

inthegreen

just over 3 years ago I entered into a part buy/part rent HA scheme for a 2 bedroom flat near my work. In my block there are 8 others, 2 of which are vunerable adults with carers that come in during parts of the day. One of them lives below me.

The sound proofing between the flats up and down is not very good and although we have persued this as a block our only option would be to get the tests re-done at over £1000 per flat.

My neighbour below often gets distressed and claps, shouts and bangs the walls. It usually occurs at night. I understand they are frightened but this often wakes me up.

I have had a meeting with their parent and tried my hardest to make friends as well as complaining to the HA. I know their parents are trying their best with limited budget to help with carers etc but nothing has changed.

I have met someone since I invested and we now want to buy a house together but my problem is selling. I do not feel I will be able to sell a flat when there is persistant noise (the HA said I should try but I refuse to waste money, I have to pay their solicitors fees as well as mine! and would you buy a flat with a noisy neighbour!)

I feel I will be trapped here forever unless the neighbour moves at some point. They part own their flat so its not a case of just moving them.

The noise gets worse and I seem to be having no luck getting the noise to reduce.

Does anyone have any good ideas?:(

BitterAndTwisted

Try selling it back to the HA. Is there an option to do this?

tomitma

You have made a rod for your own back here, you could say nothing about the noise to the potential buyers, but as you have made a bit of a fuss about it, you will have no option but to declare the noise to the potential buyers, as if they move in and enquire about it later, they will be made well aware that you knew about how noisy it is before selling. The new law states that you have to declare noisy or troublesome nieghbours.

inthegreen

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Try selling it back to the HA. Is there an option to do this?

there is no option to do this, nor would they let me rent it out (not that any tennants would put up with the noise)

inthegreen

tomitma wrote: »

You have made a rod for your own back here, you could say nothing about the noise to the potential buyers, but as you have made a bit of a fuss about it, you will have no option but to declare the noise to the potential buyers, as if they move in and enquire about it later, they will be made well aware that you knew about how noisy it is before selling. The new law states that you have to declare noisy or troublesome nieghbours.

The trouble is the noise started on day 1 that they moved in and has been on and off since over the 3 years, I did not anticipate wanting to move when I first complained 3 years ago:(

22225

just wanted to say that i'm sorry for your predicament and I hope that something works out for you xx

carefullycautious

Is the noise heard all over your flat or in just one room. If only in one room it may be worth you sound proofing from above to eliminate this.

The only other course of action is to have talks with you local anti social behaviour unit and see if they have any experience with this problem ie learning disabilities/mental health issues and how best to try to overcome it.

I do feel for you as sleep deprivation is a killer. Have you tried ear plugs to try to help you whilst decisions are made?

inthegreen

unfortunately you can hear it all over the flat, even worse my hearing is not perfect!

I do feel sorry for them, its not their fault but its not mine either.

Its a very difficult and frustrating situation to be in