Neighbours moved out but seems weird

quantic

thistledome wrote: »

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.

To be honest, I think we brought it on ourselves, the card that we put through their door when we moved in to say hello and smiling at them every time we saw them in the street pushed them over the edge.

xyellowx

THISTLEDOME-ive just drove past a house £240000 on a nice estate asked a freind about it he lives on there he said dont touch , a few doors away the dad moved out left it to his son to rent off him hes young single dj right nightmare partys everyweekend cars parked all over the place
not once did i think everybody else on the estate was scum
MY POINT- you get nightmare neighbours on every estate at both ends of the property market dont be fooled its only on council estates its not

FTBFun

quantic wrote: »

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

Or they could be on finance of course. Either is a possibility really, not sure why that'd make me bitter.

antrobus

evoke wrote: »

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.

Clearly the OP's experience proves otherwise.

jollymolly_2

Workshy? I was a council tenant (all of my life) up until a short while ago. I am a Teacher and work VERY hard. I remained in council property for the first three years of my Teaching career.

Also, to the poster who said that if you don't own your property then you are more likely to mess it up - you may have a mortgage but the bank actually own your property. NEVER LOOK DOWN ON ANYONE UNLESS YOU ARE HELPING THEM UP.

OP, you need to find a hobby. Most of us are too busy to be curtain twitching. You sound like a very unhappy person.

pararct

My sister owned a place (she had to dispose of it by auction in the end) on a reasonably affluent estate next to the end of terrace. After she had moved in she learned that a housing association actually owned the end of terrace property as she got quite friendly with the neighbours. Sadly after a few months the 'friendly neighbour' had to move due to job reasons and the HA put the proverbial family from hell in there. After a number of complaints, ASBO's and all the rest of the unpleasantness it turned out this was a deliberate act by the HA to house problem families next to private owned so as not to upset whole estates or blocks in their own properties.

The long and short of it is the police were practically living out side at one time and my sis had a panic alarm fitted. She eventually managed to get this one family evicted but the HA simply replaced it with another. In the end enough was enough and she decided to sell, but because of the problems it was practically unsellable, hence the auction.

She made damn sure she downloaded the titles of all neighbouring properties to determine exactly who owned them before she bought again.....

mark5

I live on a new estate at a guess 6-700 houses have been built and none are housing association. I was told when I bought my house that there would be no HA homes on the estate as they would not pay the land prices?

ajfy2k

I think this thread illustrates perfectly why this scheme of offering a percentage of all new build to social housing is such a good idea,

Maybe in 20 / 30 years we will be past having separate council estates (as more existing stock moves to private hands) and there will be less so called 'affluent' estates who think all social housing tenants are disreputable,

viva la revolution

LudaMusser

quantic wrote: »

On Tuesday our neighbour put up a "To Let" sign, within 24 hours they had moved out completely. Seems very odd, it is advertised privately for rent. A couple of blokes in dodgy looking Van's turned up to help them move out, but they did not appear to know our neighbours, as they introduced themselves to each other when they arrived.

Seems very odd, they did not work so I could never quite work out how they had the house, its a pretty affluent estate (BMW M3's, Jag xkr's etc etc), they where pretty rude neighbours, threw cig's over our fence etc and very noisy.

I was talking to a friend who is a builder and they said that all new estates have to have a percentage of properties which are council owned, I'm a bit worried that the next lot are gonna be even worse now does anyone know if there is any truth to this. Surely a council house wouldn't be advertised privately? Or can you just rent a private house then use housing allowance to pay for it?

I bet your curtains were twitching!

claire16c

ajfy2k wrote: »

I think this thread illustrates perfectly why this scheme of offering a percentage of all new build to social housing is such a good idea,

Maybe in 20 / 30 years we will be past having separate council estates (as more existing stock moves to private hands) and there will be less so called 'affluent' estates who think all social housing tenants are disreputable,

viva la revolution

Im not sure about that. Someone I know bought a property on a new estate. I wondered why she chose to buy there because as it was a new estate with a certain % allocated to social housing there was no way of knowing who your neighbours could be. (Which even on an 'affluent' estate there is no reason to say you could still not have nightmare neighbours, but at least if it is not a new area you could go round at several times of the day etc to check what the area is like.)

After a few months all her facebook posts were about the tenants down the road in the social housing causing havoc, and weirdly painting their fence pink and purple :rotfl:

So for her I guess its just reinforced that idea.