Taking the ...... ?

philphil1

Strider590 wrote: »

Thanks, it's another angle I can look at to resolving this. I might try ringing a couple of letting agents first, because I'm sure I remember which one had a sign outside the house.

yes that's worth trying.

but if they aren't all that interested i would imagine the actual owner of the house would want to know if it is not being looked after

Poppie68

Strider590 wrote: »

I'm not one to put down people who are genuinely stuck, genuinely having a hard time of things, but I have neighbours who are quite frankly taking the p*ss.

We have a young lady, late teens with two children, her mother, her boyfriend and now two more adults living in a 3 bedroomed house, none of them work (except the boyfriend might do).
The house is private rent, terraced. I own my house (got lucky on some investments 10 years ago).

I've turned a blind eye to the loud clubbing music belting out between 9am and midnight each day (even sundays).
I've turned a blind eye to.......... A lot of stuff that I won't go into.
Fortunately when they blocked the drains with nappies, I wasn't upstream (so to speak).
Their overfilling of bins has lead to cats dragging rubbish across the street and my garage+shed to be full of crawling maggots during the summer.

There was also an incident where my car was damaged following false accusations verbally thrown over the fence at me.

The parking is becoming a big issue, because I have two spaces (one in front of my garage) and I keep finding their cars in the way. Leaving me and my GF having to park in such a way as to cause friction with other neighbours.

I'm pretty sure the only person who's supposed to be living there is the young lady and her two children.

I don't want to do this, because it could affect innocent children, but what's the course of action in situations where people are claiming benefits and not declaring the additional people "living" there?

As per your last sentence... Your course of action is stay out of it....you have absolutely no idea who claims what, who might or not might work etc. While they don't sound like the ideal neighbours you can't just go reporting here there and everywhere just because you don't like them. I would be more inclined to go with trying to contact the landlord, maybe another neighbour might have contact details for them.

philphil1

Poppie68 wrote: »

As per your last sentence... Your course of action is stay out of it....you have absolutely no idea who claims what, who might or not might work etc. While they don't sound like the ideal neighbours you can't just go reporting here there and everywhere just because you don't like them. I would be more inclined to go with trying to contact the landlord, maybe another neighbour might have contact details for them.

Of course he can report them if he thinks there may be benefit fraud.
Its then up to The DWP Fraud Investigation Service to decide if its worth investigating.

Strider590

Well if the BF is working (as I suspect he is), then the house has an income, which (knowing what I do about them) is unlikely to have been declared.

Additionally, if I were the landlord I would not be happy about 5 adults living in a house that i'd rented out to one.

nannytone_2

have you seen the tenancy agreement that states only 1 adult should be there?

i have no issue with benefit fraudsters being reported ( in fact i encoutage it), but your comments all involve what you 'think' or 'inagine' and looks from the outside, like you just think you are better than these people and that they have no right to live in the same area as you

topaztiger1983

I must admit you do sound a little like my old neighbour who used to look down their nose at me, because they owned their house & my house is a council house (The only one on the street as far as I know), but they have now moved and I have new neighbours who are renting the house from the new owners (the new tenants are not English & are complete buttholes, IMO)

merlin68

How on earth do you know there on benefits or how many people should be living there. I couldnt tell you which of my neighbours were.

lovinituk

merlin68 wrote: »

How on earth do you know there on benefits or how many people should be living there. I couldnt tell you which of my neighbours were.

My sister in laws neighbours regularly brag about how much money they are 'scamming' in benefits. They are English traveller types who don't like moving around! They cause all kinds of problem in the local area with police there regularly but it doesn't seem to change anything. The house (private rental paid for from benefits) is trashed inside and out and they often keep horses on the front driveway (how can you afford multiple horses when on benefits!!!).

They couldn't care less about anyone. They give nothing back to society but take everything they can. They really are like the people you see on these benefit programmes on tv!

bloolagoon

merlin68 wrote: »

How on earth do you know there on benefits or how many people should be living there. I couldnt tell you which of my neighbours were.

You can often make educated guesses based on patterns (ie at home all day) and common sense. Eg - in the case of the teenage mum OP describes very few can make £35,000 working from home, if they did I doubt they'd live in cramped conditions.

merlin68

Still but how do you know your neighbours are at home all day if you go to work i wouldn't have a clue and i don't spend 24/7 curtain twitching and its dark at 330.