Oh woe is me (bad previous rented properties)

Mickygg

I get very annoyed with kids screaming. Sends me insane. I have recently bought Bose noise cancelling headphones. Plug these into your tv and hey presto!!! Moving all those times means you are very sensitive to noise and constantly listening out for it. That will probably mean wherever you go you won't be happy. unless you can move to a detached place in the middle of no where there will always be noise.

the-mango

Mischa8 wrote: »

There's a really interesting side note to this.

My parents have a holiday home in countryside in SW France. Off I went for a holiday there recently (there are a few houses nearby as neighbours but only one opposite their house).

anyway - I slept really well as did OH and baby. BUT - and even parents said this - it was so quiet and dark at night that it was spooky. It was really weird that stuff you normally hear (and we live in a quiet area on outskirts of London anyway) you didn't hear AT ALL in the countryside. Most you'd hear was birds and even then hardly of those around! there was a train but it didn't run at night.

so there can be almost a downside to it. I almost thought the place was haunted, saw stuff etc - but by the end of a fortnight was used to it!!!

I agree with this. I live in London, although relatively quiet as it's a detached house but obviously can hear if an ambulance, police car or helicopter go over. I went on a trip to Wales and it was sooooo quiet. The sheep baa-ing in the field weirded me out! Don't think I could ever get used to it.

Regarding your current situation, I hope you manage to get out of it. If you can find somewhere better then a fee for finding a new tenant would be definitely worth it!

damtheman

Thanks to everyone for their comments. Precious or not, I guess its a sense of self-entitlement to peace of mind which is probably common of my age range nowdays (25-30).

Oh my god, I can't believe I just typed that. I'm almost 30. How dire.

I know for sure people are not doing it spitefully (I'm not that paranoid) but I will be insisting I can leave at the earliest opportunity.

Its not nice having to admit it openly on a forum, but it got a good chatter from everyone and how they feel about it. I know at least I am not alone, something that is often hard to find local to me at least. Even my immediate friends have no recollection of having noisy neighbours (unless they ARE the noisy neighbour, haha).

Compromising the next move will be it!

Mischa8

Just a final bit on this.

whenever I complained about noise or whatever - friends and neighbours rarely commiserated, it was more like 'that's what you get when you live in a flat etc'.

But as a person, one tends to build this up (so I found) so that every little noise was magnified and you're almost sitting with ears wide open for noise to appear or be loud. I also found that middle of the night was worst time for noise to be amplified and apparently you just have to lie there and let other noise *get used to you/room* if that makes sense?

I don't even think it's an age thing with you, I just think it's the hazards or living with/amongst people and to be quite honest a lot of people find noise doesn't bother them.

good luck with finding a nice quieter property because when all's said and done you sound a decent tenant. Just make sure it has sound deadening etc - maybe even go round with letting agents to *hear* noise above/below etc.

damtheman

I guess, and it probably doesn't sound it, but I've tried to get some suitable times to view properties with agents but they never want to play game outside of 9am-5.30pm. I understand why, but the house game is quite big, why not let me view at say 6pm or some other time on a weekend - just silly.

Thats the way it is I guess.

Thanks MSE community! I will no doubt post again when and if I can move...

HB58

I think we are simply not meant to live in such close proximity with each other, this is very much a problem of modern times where everyone lives so close together. I am very noise intolerant, I have been lucky so far but dread the time when a family with a couple of kids move into the house next door (which is currently occupied by a single elderly lady)!

hardworking_mummy

damtheman wrote: »

Thanks to everyone for their comments. Precious or not, I guess its a sense of self-entitlement to peace of mind which is probably common of my age range nowdays (25-30).

Oh my god, I can't believe I just typed that. I'm almost 30. How dire.

I know for sure people are not doing it spitefully (I'm not that paranoid) but I will be insisting I can leave at the earliest opportunity.

Its not nice having to admit it openly on a forum, but it got a good chatter from everyone and how they feel about it. I know at least I am not alone, something that is often hard to find local to me at least. Even my immediate friends have no recollection of having noisy neighbours (unless they ARE the noisy neighbour, haha).

Compromising the next move will be it![/QUOTE

I don't think you should go in with the atitude that you "insist" you can leave at the earliest opportunity. That is the landlord's call - not yours or the letting agent's. I'm sure if you explain your difficulty and offer a suitable financial settlement to your landlord, s/he may be more willing to release you 6 days into a legally binding contract, than if you "insist". You can "leave" whenever you want - but you will still be liable for rent until the landlord agrees a surrender of the lease.

damtheman

HB58 wrote: »

(which is currently occupied by a single elderly lady)!

Put her on life support! That'll keep it quiet for you.

hardworking_mummy wrote:

I don't think you should go in with the atitude that you "insist" you can leave at the earliest opportunity. That is the landlord's call - not yours or the letting agent's. I'm sure if you explain your difficulty and offer a suitable financial settlement to your landlord, s/he may be more willing to release you 6 days into a legally binding contract, than if you "insist". You can "leave" whenever you want - but you will still be liable for rent until the landlord agrees a surrender of the lease.

Very true, but the plan is to bring in a new tenant (either myself or the lettings agent) that will end my agreement.

I hate riding on what-ifs.

*fingers crossed*

damtheman

Oh.... well the agent finally managed to find a new tenant.

Should I be pleased? Yes. But I'm not.

The agent is trying to charge me for the new tenant's contract!

damtheman

Is that even legal?