Neighbours moved out but seems weird

FTBFun

quantic wrote: »

its a pretty affluent estate (BMW M3's, Jag xkr's etc etc),

Brilliant.

All this proves is that there are lots of blokes with not much in the downstairs department, as it were.

quantic

FTBFun wrote: »

Brilliant.

All this proves is that there are lots of blokes with not much in the downstairs department, as it were.

And it couldn't possibly be because they have disposable cash and enjoy driving a nice car. Some bitter people on this thread :eek:

Gwhiz

FTBFun wrote: »

Brilliant.

All this proves is that there are lots of blokes with not much in the downstairs department, as it were.

Or they are up to their eyeballs in debt

xyellowx

op- i cant believe your comments
your estate cant be that affluent if you think there if a chance housing allowance would cover the private rent also most estates have bmw and jag cars on (even find them on counsil estates)
your correct about estates/areas having to allow for some cheaper accomadation within a borough but counsils now are having to supplement private rentals for illigal imigrants also
i hope you find your new neighbours fit in better, dont be offended if they dont say hello they probably just dont speak a word of english

jude47

Hi All

There's another possibility here. Quantic said the 'removals' men seemed hostile. I'm wondering if the neighbours DID buy the house but couldn't (wouldn't, whatever) pay the mortgage and were evicted. The mortgage lender might have the property up to rent pending a sale and the 'removals' men could have been bailiffs collecting goods to pay outstanding debts. One way people with no visible legitimate means of support manage to live in nice areas is by racking up debts then disappearing!

evoke

Most council tenants are trouble. I wouldn't want to live near one. Sorry for not being politically correct but my opinions have been formed over a period of 10 years. Getting a property for free or virtually free without having to work for it means you're not going to be as neighbourly as a private renter or owner-occupier. It's a simple fact that many people try to ignore.

iluvmarmite

Theres an old saying, two cars in the drive and nothing in the fridge. Just because you have a big posh car doesnt make you any better than someone with a beat up old mini, all it means is you have a huge debt hanging over your head.

Im a HA tenant, have been for over 15 years now, we live in a nice quiet area, the houses are mixed with privately owned houses, and no one in those houses looks down on the HA tenants, in fact many have said we are better off due to the fact we get all our repairs and new kitchens and what have you done for free, the same and a PRIVATE rented tenant. Of course there are some tenants who are trouble, the same as there are some home owners who are trouble, its got nothing to do with owning or renting its to do with the sort of person you are.

There are a couple of homeowners just up the road from me who have out of control children who love nothing better than to key cars or harrass old people, it cant be said they havent had a good upbringing as they go to private school and their parents try their best, and before anyone says its because they hang around with the scummy council house kids, its not that at all as none of the other kids want anything to do with them, they are just little gits pure and simple.

quantic

Well the owner of the property (the actual owner, not the people who just moved out), knocked on my door when I got in today to say that the tenants had moved out and to apologise for the mess left on our drive from them (they piled up loads of !!!! they didn't want/need) and also apologised for their dogs !!!!!!!! on our garden (dogs that are against the lease agreement), cigs/cans being thrown into the garden and the rest of it.

Turns out their 15 year old daughter fell pregnant to her lovely boyfriend (who gave us abuse over the fence for no reason) they had a massive row and are moving as a result, it seems we are not the only ones glad they have moved out as the owner said that they have had complaints from others in the street. They have moved out in the middle of a 12 month contract without paying this months rent, how very responsible.

I'm sorry for my rash and downright snobby comments, I think I just got carried away at my anger against this family and tarred everyone with the same brush. So I apologise.

evoke

FTBFun wrote: »

Brilliant.

All this proves is that there are lots of blokes with not much in the downstairs department, as it were.

Do you drive a drive a manly Toyota Prius or ride a bicycle? LOL...

thistledome

quantic wrote: »

I apologise if I came across as if I thought all council tenants are scum. I have had bad experience from these neighbours, some of our friends have moved to new estates and have had similar problems with the minority of people who have been "housed" there, so this has (as I previously stated) given me a bad view of them. Which perhaps is wrong.

No need to apologise. You haven't said anything wrong.

There are a large number of hand-wringing posters on MSE who consider themselves to be champions of the poor and oppressed and another large group who resemble your fag-smoking chav ex-neighbours and think the world owes them a living.

Both types tend to pounce on people like you, who've managed to get on the housing ladder (and the evolutionary scale) a few rungs up from them. It's pure envy and resentment from people who lack ambition and it's the kind of person who thinks it's OK to take a pair of trainers from JD sports "because everyone else was doing it" and "if they didn't cost so much we wouldn't have to nick them".

I used to live in a council house when they were for normal working class people with jobs. Even with a majority of respectable tenants it only took 1 scum family to make the place unbearable. Like your ex-neighbours.

The people who have posted on this thread and called you a snob are no doubt the type that think it's normal to display appalling manners, flick dog ends over their neighbours fences and make noise at all hours. They have no idea how it feels to be a decent person who has bad neighbours because they are the undesirable neighbours themselves.

No doubt the "To Let" sign was put up by the owners of the house. I don't know why everyone is assuming the departing scrotes have put it up? The owner could be a private landlord or a housing association or the council. Whoever it is, I hope you have better luck next time, OP.