Dirty Neighbours, House in extreme disrepair

VfM4meplse

suki1001 wrote: »

Maybe send the flowers as suggested. Being nice can go a long way.

There is being nice and there is being non-MSE stupid. Being nice shouldn't cost anything... I really think flowers would be seen to be rewarding previous bad behaviour!

tbs624

Procrastinator333 wrote: »

Buy a high powered air rifle and get to work.

jamie11 wrote: »

Flying rats, treat them as you would the earth bound ones, poison them

Peater wrote: »

I'd go with the air-rifle approach. Once you've slotted 10 or so, they start to realise they are in a bit of danger and move on.

Check out licence regs http://www.picasuk.com/the_law.html

OP - does your home insurance policy also include legal advice cover?

suki1001

VfM4meplse wrote: »

There is being nice and there is being non-MSE stupid. Being nice shouldn't cost anything... I really think flowers would be seen to be rewarding previous bad behaviour!

You are stupid if you think flowers have to cost anything than a couple of quid. It's not rewarding bad behaviour. It's thanking them for the good behaviour done so far. I have good relationships will all my neighbours.

gravitytolls

suki1001 wrote: »

You are stupid if you think flowers have to cost anything than a couple of quid. It's not rewarding bad behaviour. It's thanking them for the good behaviour done so far. I have good relationships will all my neighbours.

Eh? Good behaviour?

The old lady is obviously a few marbles short, I wonder if you'd not be better off contacting social services, as the pigeons must be a health hazard, not to mention the disrepair of the rest of the property.

I realise there's a daughter there too, who may be the carer. Social services could help with things like applying for grants, if their circumstances don't allow them to tackle the jobs that need doing.

winterwhite11

ruggedtoast wrote: »

I would just like to say that I am not in favour of shooting the old lady with the air rifle and I think that that is a bit much for people to be suggesting at this juncture.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

olibrofiz

for MY peace of mind, I'd offer to arrange, & pay, for the hole to be fixed

living next door to a house that's in disrepair, & people who are like that, you're always going to have some issue that arises. I know, as I did - except that I got on fine with the old guy I lived next door to. and yes, i knew his house was a dump, but no, it didn't cross my mind he'd have rats/mice/cockroaches etc as lodgers.

he once asked if i'd soak his chicken brick for him but that's another story :rotfl:waffling, sorry

ikati5

How can a woman of 80+, living in a house with no guttering or windowsills, with a garden from hell to look out on and moaning neighbours be anything other than vulnerable.

You may not have been aware of a few pigeons when you bought the house but you were certainly aware of the house and the state of it, have a look at allotment solutions to birds and leave the poor woman alone, if the inside of the house is anything like the outside she probably won't last much longer then a developer can buy it and build you a nice block of flats next door..see how you like that!

winterwhite11

ikati5 wrote: »

How can a woman of 80+, living in a house with no guttering or windowsills, with a garden from hell to look out on and moaning neighbours be anything other than vulnerable.

You may not have been aware of a few pigeons when you bought the house but you were certainly aware of the house and the state of it, have a look at allotment solutions to birds and leave the poor woman alone, if the inside of the house is anything like the outside she probably won't last much longer then a developer can buy it and build you a nice block of flats next door..see how you like that!

some old women can be truely vicious.