Trying to sell house but problem neighbours

cranezoe

we are trying to sell ours and our neighbours (rented) garden is full of dog poo......! I keep tilting the blinds to hope people just look the other way out of the window but one couple did say ewwwwwwwww. damn neighbours!

movilogo

Unfortunately, residents can store anything (broken engine, dog poo etc.) in their own property! You simply can't say since you're having problem selling your house, they shouldn't do it! I can't think people won't buy a house for these - they might just want to reduce the price.

You can only involve council if dog poo makes bad odour (health & safety) or bad engine is leaking oil to ground (environmental damage). Nowadays words like health & safety or environmental impact can create magic.

Benefits_Blagger

f1re_cr4cker wrote: »

hi if the people next to you are council tennants then they have a duty to keep the house and outdoors area look respectable. (hubby told me this and he is a council solicitor) You need to ring a council housing officer and make a complaint, although saying that it could still take a while for anything to actually be done

that is indeed correct, as i have been taken to court in the past by the council for not keeping "my garden in good order", in my case it was that i hadnt cut the grass! so no where near as bad as the cases mentioned in this thread.

the coucil was pretty swift aswell, i gather they have powers in whichever recent act to allow them to do this very quickly.

so ring the council, think they will get two warning letters, council will check the property themselves, if they dont do anything then the council will take it to court. probably about a month for the whole process.

tbs624

You may want to bear in mind that you have to declare any neighbour complaints/disputes on your pre-contract enquiries :undecided

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blue_monkey_2

I as going to add this as our neighbours are the same, mum is selling the house and I told her to complain to the council about the mess (2 people have said the same as the back garden is just a junk yard) but the EA told her not to because she would then have to declare the dispute when she sold. The EA said to put some trellis up!!