Misrepresentation re. Problem neighbours ?

MrsGruffalo

I wonder if I can get a little guidance here

My daughter recently competed on her first house bought with her partner , They are both young and have a 2 year old child .

The house they have bought is ex- council and the house next door and others in the street are still under the local authority.
On the enquiries form the vendors stated that the only problem they had had was that they had to contact the council regarding rubbish left in the front garden of the house next door.

Within days of moving in it was aopparent that next door liked their music loud and had a lot of rather noisy visitors but no real problems have occurred as yet.

This evening the local community police officer called by . He wanted to make sure all was OK. He said that there were known anti social problems with the next door neighbour and another nearby neighbour and that the previous occupants had been in touch with him on quite a few occasions regarding this.
He was surprised that nothing had been said to my daughter and her partner and referred to the vendors as being " a bit naughty " for not saying anything !!! He said that the vendor had on one occasion chased a visitor to next door up the street !

Now my daughter is very very upset and obviously feels she has been deceived and taken advantage of.They feel that they would not have bought the house if they had known this information.

I had advised her and partner to contact their solicitor first thing in the morning.
Is there anything else that should be done ?

Thanks for any help . I am feeling upset myself.

af2909_2

MrsGruffalo wrote: »

I wonder if I can get a little guidance here

My daughter recently competed on her first house bought with her partner , They are both young and have a 2 year old child .

The house they have bought is ex- council and the house next door and others in the street are still under the local authority.
On the enquiries form the vendors stated that the only problem they had had was that they had to contact the council regarding rubbish left in the front garden of the house next door.

Within days of moving in it was aopparent that next door liked their music loud and had a lot of rather noisy visitors but no real problems have occurred as yet.

This evening the local community police officer called by . He wanted to make sure all was OK. He said that there were known anti social problems with the next door neighbour and another nearby neighbour and that the previous occupants had been in touch with him on quite a few occasions regarding this.
He was surprised that nothing had been said to my daughter and her partner and referred to the vendors as being " a bit naughty " for not saying anything !!! He said that the vendor had on one occasion chased a visitor to next door up the street !

Now my daughter is very very upset and obviously feels she has been deceived and taken advantage of.They feel that they would not have bought the house if they had known this information.

I had advised her and partner to contact their solicitor first thing in the morning.
Is there anything else that should be done ?

Thanks for any help . I am feeling upset myself.

Get your daughter to ask the solicitor who she dealt with. There may be additional costs

MrsGruffalo

af2909 wrote: »

Get your daughter to ask the solicitor who she dealt with. There may be additional costs

Yes I have told her to contact the solicitor who acted for her in the purchase . Sorry what do you mean by " additional costs "

af2909_2

MrsGruffalo wrote: »

Yes I have told her to contact the solicitor who acted for her in the purchase . Sorry what do you mean by " additional costs "

Your daughter may have a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation - however I imagine there may be a cost to start proceedings. Hopefully not of course

MrsGruffalo

af2909 wrote: »

Your daughter may have a claim for fraudulent misrepresentation - however I imagine there may be a cost to start proceedings. Hopefully not of course

Thanks for your input . I just feel so desperately sad for them . They have worked so hard to buy this little house and they were so proud of what they have achieved.

Now they are worried that they will never be able to sell the house and move on in a couple of years which is what they had planned.

af2909_2

MrsGruffalo wrote: »

Thanks for your input . I just feel so desperately sad for them . They have worked so hard to buy this little house and they were so proud of what they have achieved.

Now they are worried that they will never be able to sell the house and move on in a couple of years which is what they had planned.

The only other thing to do would be to contact the local authority noise abatement team to find out any record - if they have orders against them then perhaps they can be evicted.

dominoman

I would suggest starting off by being really nice to them. Invite them round for a coffee and cake to say hello. Smile at them and say Hi when they walk past.

They may just start behaving differently when they realise they are impacting on someone decent.

If that doesnt work, follow plan B. Pursue the council religiously to get them evicted. Keep records of all offences. Record the noise. Keep a diary. Get them moved on.

All is not lost. Council tenants don't stay forever. Good luck!

motherofstudents

Sorry to hear this. Did they not visit the house at different times to watch out for any anti social behaviour ? There is no point them worrying about selling just yet as they have only just moved in. It's a difficult one because if they go down official channels, they will have to declare when they come to sell, although I appreciate that the people who sold to them did not do so. Tell them to take advice from their solicitor first of all. There may be something they can do but I'm not sure if it will resolve the situation with the neighbours.

MrsGruffalo

motherofstudents wrote: »

Sorry to hear this. Did they not visit the house at different times to watch out for any anti social behaviour ? There is no point them worrying about selling just yet as they have only just moved in. It's a difficult one because if they go down official channels, they will have to declare when they come to sell, although I appreciate that the people who sold to them did not do so. Tell them to take advice from their solicitor first of all. There may be something they can do but I'm not sure if it will resolve the situation with the neighbours.

Thank you . Yes I have warned them about making official contacts and they are OK at present. Just wondering how it will be if we get some warm summer evenings as they have seen various people hanging around outside when it was briefly warmer weather.
They did visit the area but not at night time. Difficult when they both work full time and have a small child.

Can I ask whether when the time comes to sell would the question be
a] have YOU had any problems with the neighbours or
b] have there EVER been any problems with the neighbours

The answers may be quite different.

bitsandpieces

dominoman wrote: »

I would suggest starting off by being really nice to them. Invite them round for a coffee and cake to say hello. Smile at them and say Hi when they walk past.

They may just start behaving differently when they realise they are impacting on someone decent.

^ This. You say they've been no real problems yet, so it would be in their best interests to make nice and increase the odds that this continues!

They can certainly speak to their solicitor about a failure to disclose disputes. But whether they do this or not the best outcome is just that they get on well with the neighbours

MrsGruffalo

bitsandpieces wrote: »

^ This. You say they've been no real problems yet, so it would be in their best interests to make nice and increase the odds that this continues!

They can certainly speak to their solicitor about a failure to disclose disputes. But whether they do this or not the best outcome is just that they get on well with the neighbours

Good advice and I will talk to daughter and partner tomorrow. They dont intend to stay there a long time so this is a good option.

However I am furious about how they have been treated by the vendors who it turns out are also involved in law enforcement and really should know better than to do what they have done to two young decent people.

Edited to say that daughter lives 200 miles away from us so we could not help with info on the area .