Rental property a total disgrace

dantheman2010

Good morning all.

I live next door to a house that is rented out, and the new tenants have just slung all rubbish and empty boxes in their back garden which is a total disgrace.

However what they do in their own back garden etc, but my concern is that the fences on one side of them has blown down and if the one blows down on my side then I dont want to be picking up all the rubbish if it blows through to my garden.

I have spoken with the rental agency and they said the landlord is managing the property and they cant do anything.

My choice is to confront the tenant or environmental health.

Is this my only choice?

I dont really want any confrontation.

GothicStirling

Maybe try the local council? Our private tenament is next to a housing association block, who where dumping their rubbish in our garden. We copped them with an envelop.

Otherwise I would call environmental health before the rubbish attracts rats.

theartfullodger

What response did you get when you politely enquired of the tenant why there was such a problem??

Chances are there will be some confrontation - but I'd 'umbly suggest the normal,neighbourly approach of talking to them first..

dantheman2010

theartfullodger wrote: »

What response did you get when you politely enquired of the tenant why there was such a problem??

Chances are there will be some confrontation - but I'd 'umbly suggest the normal,neighbourly approach of talking to them first..

I havent done so yet, I want to avoid any unneccessary confrontation. They seem reasonable but who knows if that will be the case when you ask them about their living state.

C_Mababejive

Thats Buy To Let Blight Britain for you...a system which licences low life to live in really nice houses,in really nice areas just like the workers do.

kazwookie

Put the fence back up.

dantheman2010

kazwookie wrote: »

Put the fence back up.

That doesnt help at all, as the fence has not come down on the side which joins my garden, but the other side. I said if it comes down on my side I dont want to be picking all their rubbish up if it comes into my garden.

Also I am not responsible for that fence if it does come down so I wont be paying someone to come and replace it!

poppysarah

Have they got wheely bins? Do they know when to put them out? If it's cardboard do your council recycle that.

dantheman2010

In our area we dont have wheely bins, we do have cardboard collections every other Friday. In fact last Friday on the cardboard collection they left a box out filled to the brim with torn up letters and junk mail, which went everywhere in the street with the wind on Thursday/Friday. So I had the pleasure of picking all that up on Friday night.

kazwookie

dantheman2010 wrote: »

That doesnt help at all, as the fence has not come down on the side which joins my garden, but the other side. I said if it comes down on my side I dont want to be picking all their rubbish up if it comes into my garden.

Also I am not responsible for that fence if it does come down so I wont be paying someone to come and replace it!

Clearly it is an issue to you, so prop it back up, no need to pay out to replace it or what ever.

dantheman2010

So why should I have to put up with a garden next to mine completely filled with rubbish perhaps attracting rats, and why should I have to spend my time propping up a fence I am not responsible for?

If it comes down why should I pick up their rubbish? They havent bothered to pick it up with the fence down next door?