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Do you regret buying your house?
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Newlyboughthouse
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Hi - I sometimes love living in my house, but I also sometimes hate it. I wish I'd paid more attention to the neighbours before buying.
Just wondering, has anyone else bought a house and wishes they didn't?
Just wondering, has anyone else bought a house and wishes they didn't?
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You should always listen to what the neighbours have to say.
Why do people so rarely knock on their doors before commiting?0 -
Sorry let me rephrase - I wish I'd looked into the neighbours a bit more. Turns out the house next door is actually 2 flats with pretty undesirable tenants
It's not obvious from the outside. It will be the main thing I look at next time.0 -
Unfortunately even that may not save you all the woe as our road was lovely until a few years ago when a couple of houses were turned to multi occupation and we got several horrendous neighbours."'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, this life
Try to make ends meet
You're a slave to money then you die"0 -
I love the house I am in just now but regret buying the one I was in before that. A fairly inoffensive semi but very offensive neighbours. I should have listened to the alarm bells when one of the children next door was bouncing on his trampoline shouting over the fence when I went to view the house...If you always do what you have always done, you will always get what you always got!0
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Newlyboughthouse wrote: »Sorry let me rephrase - I wish I'd looked into the neighbours a bit more. Turns out the house next door is actually 2 flats with pretty undesirable tenants
As I said "Why do people so rarely knock on their doors before commiting?"
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I like our house most of the time, until something goes wrong and I realise how much work we still have to do on it!
Good neighbours though (a little loud due to young children, but still good).
There's so much more that I'd think about if we ever move on though.0 -
Would definitely recommend carefully sussing the neighbours out before setting your heart on somewhere. Our current house had one great neighbour and no neighbour (empty).
Fast forward a few years and great neighbour is gone and replaced by bad neighbour and other side is still empty, both have caused their issues!
Having been to a few viewings of other houses, (I have another thread about this one) we found an amazing property however noticed the adjoining property was very messy with bits of clothes, skips of rubbish etc. about.
Glad we loitered around afterwards when the neighbour exposed themselves from the roof skylight and urinated all over the roof!
Another house we took a look at whilst could have been nice, had a lot of issues and a house next door which looked again in a somewhat similar state so we gave that one a miss too!
You can find a lot out without even having to knock on the neighbours door.
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It seems to only take one bad neighbour to change a street etc. In this house (rented, not bought) I've had one next door neighbour (a bunch of immigrants housed by social services) who got drunk one night and broke our front door, then we had bed bugs invade the house but hadn't purchased any furniture or stayed in hotels in the previous months. Did manage to get their LL to replace the door as police were involved. They were evicted because apparently after all that happened the LL investigated them, found they'd wrecked the house and was able to cancel the contract with them somehow.
But a few doors down there was a family where the father was a drunk. The kids were a nightmare knocking on the door at all hours, out 'playing' at all hours, although they were fed,they had no idea what good behaviour was. The father used to stand outside drinking at all hours with his cronies.., as a group they caused a lot of problems. They were evicted a couple of weeks ago. It was only then I realised just how much agro they were causing because it suddenly went very quiet here!
I lived in a maisonette block for years with no problems at all, until a certain family moved in. The kids would accost you every time you went out. It was quite annoying but LL wouldn't do anything. I had been happy there but put in for a transfer to a house (the way it worked on this estate, you got a maisonette and after a year could apply for a house) pretty quickly after they moved in.
Tidy gardens can indicate a good neighbourhood but its not foolproof. I've never been able to choose where I live though, you just have to put up with it and be glad you have a roof over your head. Not happy making, but that's life.0 -
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As I said "Why do people so rarely knock on their doors before commiting?"
:rotfl:
That's not the total answer to things it might appear to be. There are neighbours who look normal, even act friendly, and your initial reaction to them might be to respond accordingly and then you find out later what the phrase "snake in the grass" means and that they've taken in (or browbeaten) previous owner of your house into something that is totally unreasonable and you've got to sort out previous owners mess for them before you can get on with peaceably living in your house.
Am taking the attitude "This too will pass" and dealing with the issues the vendor carefully glossed-over one by one.0 -
Yep, next time I move I will check out the neighbours much more than the house. Bad neighbours can make even the best house a prison.Pants0
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