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cbrown372 wrote: »

If your neighbour drilled holes in to your wall without permission would you consider it a tiny error of judgement?

Well actually I know the answer to that from experience - my neighbour did do exactly that and I didn't realise till afterwards. I wasn't best pleased and can't even see why they did it, but I left it.

In turn I had to drill a couple of holes in the other next door neighbours wall - for a gate. They werent too charmed - and said so.

Things were left as they were both sides - my wall being drilled into by one neighbour and me having to drill into the wall of the other next door neighbour. These are Victorian terrace houses - ie we expect that the next door neighbour will probably paint the extension wall of ours that they see (but we don't) in the colour of their choice (to cope with the fact that they are having their view blocked by someone else's wall) - so it may be a bit different attitude in this sort of set-up to that prevailing normally for detached houses.

Ask me again once I have moved to my detached house and I'll know how I feel and what I expect then...:rotfl:

burnoutbabe

I'd have mentioned it to the landlord, as it seems unlikely he gave consent to have a gate installed that was attached to both walls (without asking you first). So he may want it taken down and that would have resolved the issue anyway.

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I think everyone is right here! There are so many opinions and ways to deal with this situation.

I once ended up with a full blown neighbor dispute as a result of something similar. By the end of the whole situation, we wished that we hadn't have instigated the situation by complaining, we didn't want to live in our own home any longer.

We were abused by Council staff and were visited by the Police every evening, most of the time these Police Community Support Officers were camped out on our drive when we returned from work.

We were accused of everything under the sun and it went on for months. Clearly there wasn't any proof, because we had done nothing wrong.

But it wasn't unusual for the Police to turn up at 2am, whilst we were in bed, asking if a party was in motion and why we were making so much noise.

Clearly sometimes you end up living next door to a strange one!!!! I'm so glad ours left, otherwise we were about to move anywhere just to get away.

I hope you don't have one like this. If it were me I'd just wait until they moved out and then make the alterations that I needed to, getting back my land and painting other side of fencing and so on...

motherofstudents

BigALC, thanks for coming back to tell us the outcome. So many times people never bother and you are left wondering what happened. I'm glad you managed to sort things out between you. I could possibly have understood them drilling into your wall by mistake if it was a semi or terraced but not a detached house.

You sound like you were a good tenant and that is exactly what I would do if renting, ask the landlord's permission but speaking as a landlord, I don't worry about what my tenants are doing (within reason!) and when the tenancy ends if there is any damage I will keep the deposit or part of it or if necessary take them to court. Anyway it's good you sorted things out with them.

DaftyDuck

As a landlord, I'd welcome comment from a neighbour if anything like this was done to their property. I actually feel that, at the end of it all, it would be my responsibility to ensure damage was made good. I feel responsible for how my tenants behave - and how the neighbours respond to my tenants.