Neighbours House Covered in Tat!

DylanO

marisco wrote: »

That would be a major over reaction and a total waste of time and money. Seriously you would begin legal action because someone puts a fish tank in a garden and hangs a few pictures on a wall. The property owner would have to declare this when they came to sell and you would take it this far if they didn't comply to your demands. Over something so totally trivial.

Wow I am amazed by your repsonse. So much for live and let live and showing some tolerance.

I'd threaten it. I'd probably go through with it too, but it would be entirely unnecessary around here because if anyone dared do something like that they'd soon suffer the wrath of the community.

pearl123

Maybe, they are a little eccentric. Maybe, they are being artistic. Each to their own.
It sound riddiculous to report it. And as another poster said - I doubt they would be interested.
What exactly is wrong with a fish tank in the garden? I can see none!

marisco_2

DylanO wrote: »

I'd threaten it. I'd probably go through with it too, but it would be entirely unnecessary around here because if anyone dared do something like that they'd soon suffer the wrath of the community.

Sounds like a lovely place to live :cool:

Person_one

marisco wrote: »

Sounds like a lovely place to live :cool:

BitterAndTwisted

One person's filthy tat is another's precious treasure. The more horrible next door looks, the better your friend's house will in comparison.

I'd be having a think about informing the landlord as they are the only party who has any power to do anythig about it. I wouldn't in the first instance be going in all guns blazing and doing anything daft like threatening legal action.

ruby-roo_2

I will be checking out the neighbourhood really carefully before buying my next property. Fish tanks and pictures on walls wouldn't bother me. Warlord neighbours who threaten you with court action for putting your own mark on your own place would. Some people really are far to full of their own importance aren't they.

dumpy

DylanO wrote: »

You misunderstand - whatever the legal action is doesn't matter - the house's owner will have to notify all future potential buyers that there has been a dispute with a neighbour (something which all landlords wish to avoid) - that is the power play here, not the potential legal implications.

But you would also need to declare when you come to sell your own house, so you are devaluing your own at the same time. In addition if you are trying to move the neighbour you are declaring a dispute with, may still be there. Very off putting!

Nicki

DylanO wrote: »

You misunderstand - whatever the legal action is doesn't matter - the house's owner will have to notify all future potential buyers that there has been a dispute with a neighbour (something which all landlords wish to avoid) - that is the power play here, not the potential legal implications.

The tenant will almost certainly not be there for very long as generally speaking people in rented accommodation move more often than those who own their property. Lots of landlords own their property for long periods of time as it is their business.

The chances are that if you followed Dylan's advice, that you would want to sell before the landlord but long after the tenant has been and gone. So you would be the one disclosing to a prospective purchaser a neighbours dispute and the existence of an impotent landlord who has flaky tenants he can't control, long after the evidence for this has long gone and suffering the financial hit. The dispute would likely to have long lapsed by the time the landlord wanted to sell.

Another one by the way who wants to point out there is no legal remedy for this, so threatening legal action would just make you look a fool. Or a bully. Take your pick

Alikay

I don't see that your friend can or should do anything about her neighbour's obsession with "customising" his home. Personally I'd rather have loads of gnomes, windchimes, bits of dodgy artwork and sculpture etc, than a neglected house with a garden full of old mattresses, dog muck and rotting wheel-less caravans.

FatVonD

Do you think the outdoor eccentricities could be indicative of greater crimes against taste inside the house? I suppose the landlord might then be interested.