New House Misery

maxgwen

12 Months ago oh and i bought a brand new house on a loverly new development.

Building is still going on around us as they are just finishing off the last phase of the development.

We have just found out off one of the builders that the property developer has sold over half of the development to a housing assosiation.

We are devastated to think that we paid a lot of money for our beautiful home when we might aswell have moved into the local council estate and saved £160 grand.

We bought this house because of the size of the garden so our 3 dogs had plenty of space, this has been ruined as the new tennants next door have a shitz hu that is left out all day and constantly barks if my dogs are out, these neighbours have only been in a month and already they have a washing machine in the back garden.

We love this house and dont want to have to move is there anything we can do??:mad::mad::mad:

BitterAndTwisted

I don't see the problem: you've still got a beautiful house with the garden with plenty of space for your dogs. An uncharitable person could assume that with that many dogs you could be well-suited to living in a council estate. What other people choose to put in their own gardens is none of your business. Householders can put anything they like on their own property and it doesn't necessarily follow that if they're renting they would automatically do something like that. Plenty of owner-occupiers have been known to do such things and worse.

evoke

You should have known that all new generally developments have to have a certain percentage of homes designated as 'affordable homes'. It sounds like your developer was struggling to sell some of the homes so just dumped them to an HA.

The problem you're going to have is that the HA homes are going to end up looking like chav city after a few years. The current occupiers will illegally sub-let them out to the most undesirable parts of society and run down the development. It'll end up being a chavvy estate and the decent homeowners will move out and/or rent their homes out to people who don't hold the same social and neighbourly values as the rest of us.

That is exactly what happened on my development and several other developments nearby to where I live.

My suggestion is to cut your losses and move now before the chavs impact the price of properties on your development. And don't buy in or near a new build development.

tanith

These things happen and I can't imagine there is anything other than learning to live and let live or move.. sorry it that sounds harsh but none of us have control of who moves in next door to us maybe you could make friends with your neighbours, you already have dogs in common and you never know you might actually like them.

Jollymummy3

I can not believe that you are saying that just because the houses are not privately owned that they will not be looked after. I am HA tenant and take a huge deal of pride in my HOME, although i have neighbours who own their house and it is a wreck outside.

Why is it that people think that all HA tenants are the same. Some of us respect our property, and neighbours. You may be suprised at which houses are owned, and which are HA. With you attitude though, i think that i would rather live next door to a HA tenant who appreciates their home rather than someone like you who owns their home and thinks they are better than me.

dehydrato

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I don't see the problem: you've still got a beautiful house with the garden with plenty of space for your dogs. An uncharitable person could assume that with that many dogs you could be well-suited to living in a council estate. What other people choose to put in their own gardens is none of your business. Householders can put anything they like on their own property and it doesn't necessarily follow that if they're renting they would automatically do something like that. Plenty of owner-occupiers have been known to do such things and worse.

3 Dogs is not a lot!

Incyder

evoke wrote: »

You should have known that all new generally developments have to have a certain percentage of homes designated as 'affordable homes'. It sounds like your developer was struggling to sell some of the homes so just dumped them to an HA.

The problem you're going to have is that the HA homes are going to end up looking like chav city after a few years. The current occupiers will illegally sub-let them out to the most undesirable parts of society and run down the development. It'll end up being a chavvy estate and the decent homeowners will move out and/or rent their homes out to people who don't hold the same social and neighbourly values as the rest of us.

That is exactly what happened on my development and several other developments nearby to where I live.

My suggestion is to cut your losses and move now before the chavs impact the price of properties on your development. And don't buy in or near a new build development.

I agree 100%

They did this in my town a few years back. Barratts knocked down some old factories and built about 100 trendy new flats and aggresively marketed them
"for the young proffessional", very soon all were sold and the trendy boys and girls in renault clio's and newish vw golf's all moved in and began to enjoy their first taste of home ownership.

THEN AND ONLY THEN, it was discovered that about 35 of the 100 are council/ha owned and in came the underclass.

It's now not what it was and there have been problems, the only saving grace is they have no gardens for dumping rubbish/having parties/keeping pitbull type dogs in.

I know a PCSO there who lives right above a drug dealer.
Nothing he can do about it without becoming a victim of crime himself.

I would, for starters, get your dogs out in the garden a.s.a.p so the other one next door, and yours, will get used to eachother quicker.

And......consider selling up, before it turns into a sink estate full of day-glo shell suit wearing fat pram pushers in leggings and their cannabis dealing boyfriends with no car insurance and loud exhausts.

JuniorSherlock

On a new estate I should imagine that the HA homes will be shared ownership ones. People who buy those homes are young families who need to get onto the housing ladder. They don't tend to stay very long as once they are on the property ladder they look for somewhere slightly better.

I agree that owners can be just as much of a pain. The only neighbours I've ever had a problem with have been ones who have owned their homes. In many cases that is worse as at least with a HA you can demand that the problem be resolved.

The HA houses round here are a mixed bunch. You have your sweary families with their dogs who use the kiddies park as a drinking den and let their dogs foul everywhere and then you get the decent families who are just trying to bring up their children in a decent area as best they can.
Your attitude says a lot more about you than it does about those who rent from a HA.

JuniorSherlock

Incyder wrote: »

I agree 100%

They did this in my town a few years back. Barratts knocked down some old factories and built about 100 trendy new flats and aggresively marketed them "for the young proffessional", very soon all were sold and the trendy boys and girls in renault clio's and newish vw golf's all moved in and began to enjoy their fist taste of ownership.

THEN AND ONLY THEN, it was discovered that about 35 of the 100 are council/ha owned and in came the underclass.

It's now not what it was and there have been problems, the only saving grace is they have no gardens for dumping rubbish/having parties/keeping pitbull type dogs in.

I know a PCSO there who lives right above a drug dealer.
Nothing he can do about it without becoming a victim of crime himself.

I would, for starters, get your dogs out in the garden a.s.a.p so the other one next door, and yours, will get used to eachother quicker.

And......consider selling up, before it turns into a sink estate full of day-glo shell suit wearing fat pram pushers in leggings and their cannabis dealing boyfriends with no car insurance and loud exhausts.

Well yes because all underclass are scum aren't they? Goes without saying that those who can't afford to buy are drug pushing teenage single mums who spend all day stuffing chips into their mouths.

I've been both a part of the so-called underclass and part of the middle classes. Yes there are some lousy people who don't get off their !!!!!!, eat all day, are rude to others and take tax-payers money. But that's enough about bankers and the owner of TopShop, lets focus all our hatred onto the working classes.

poppysarah

dehydrato wrote: »

3 Dogs is not a lot!

Yes it is.

poppysarah

The neighbour with the washer - is it in the front? Ask them if they have rung the council (or are they waiting for a scrappie) - and offer to ring it in for them as something that needs removing (or if it works get it on freecycle)