Neighbours of new tenants!!

Paul_Varjak

Four properties near me are rented out (all by the same landlord). At two of those properties, the tenants did not pay rent, water, gas, electric etc. Both were evicted at the time I moved in. One was arrested for murder within a few weeks and I got visits from debt collectors/bailiffs for the ex-tenant of the other property because of a confusion over addresses!

No problems at all with owner/occupiers (except for one who does not like cats)!!

littlesaint

I am a tenant and I agree with Lavendyr. There are a lot of good tenants, and unfortunately many landlords don't appreciate us. We take good care of a property, are quiet coming in at night, take our rubbish out on collection day and recycle too. Yet the thanks we get is money taken off our hefty six week deposits for things that previous tenants did!

Also, on foriegners, all the people my boyfriend shares with are from other countries (French, Africans and Aussie). They all seem very responsible and considerate people. You've been unlucky, but I wouldn't generalise.

JJ-07

Im only a student, cant really comment on this. When it comes to me actually buying a house, i will be careful to chose the area, although i understand you cant avoid situations like this.

I will speak from a 'Student' point of view as im guessing alot of problems come from us.

We have bin collections every week and our neighbour is complaining to me about the amount of bags we leave in the front garden throughout the week. He also complained about us using green bags and not black ones.

1) There are 6 people in this house, there will be extra bags
2) There is no place for us to store our rubbish apart from out front, the landlord dont care about us, and wont provide any storage for us.
3) The collection people have not gave us black bags for weeks, and as students we can barley afford to eat let alone buy bags each week. The bin men have no problem with collecting our green bags so whats the problem?

Also our grass is overgrown alot, the landlord took the lawn mower and has not brought it back, so we cant even cut the lawn.

In our case we have a minor dispute, but its because of the landlord, not us. But i can see why problems like this esculate. The older generation just want to live in there homes in peace without all the hassle, and so they should deserve to rest there final days in peace. Sorry, by final i mean enjoy the rest of there time they have.

Lavendyr

Paul_Varjak wrote: »

Four properties near me are rented out (all by the same landlord). At two of those properties, the tenants did not pay rent, water, gas, electric etc. Both were evicted at the time I moved in. One was arrested for murder within a few weeks and I got visits from debt collectors/bailiffs for the ex-tenant of the other property because of a confusion over addresses!

Blimey, where do you live - I'll make a mental note to avoid the area

But to put the boot on the other foot, in past rental situations, we've had bailiffs and debt collectors visit us in our rented home to collect debts for various previous owner-occupiers, so it's not just tenants. Many of us are like this -> :A

franklee

I am a tenant. I sometimes feel like murder. Didn't realise the two are connected OH was looking a bit wild eyed this morning, am just off to hide the kitchen knives _pale_

I am keeping the grass immaculate though.

weebro

From the first impressions it doesn't seem good: Shouting, taking apples off the other neighbours house, then throwing this litter into my back garden!!
Have spoken to the estate agent today expressing my concerns.

It may be annoying but a few apples and some litter is not a major crime wave, have you tried speaking to the tenants themselves?
As others said, would you respond differently if they owned the house, or maybe if they where not 'foreign nationality'

celyn90

We're really good tenants, I treat the house as if I owned it - I certainly don't want to live in a mess and we are not in the slightest bit noisy or inconsiderate. One of my neighbours is lovely - the other resents having a rented property in their up-market street and is constantly rude to me, we often get blamed for anything that goes wrong in the street - the badly parked car must be mine as must the rubbish that blows down the road and the bin bags that are out a day before collection time (in reality, we don't run a car and we generate half a bag of rubbish a fortnight due to my obsessive recycling, which is put out at 6 am on collection day as I leave for work!). OH and I are both very hard working medical research scientists (not student scum from the nearby former polytechnic as we have been referred to recently), we simply do not wish to settle in the area we currently live in (we are looking at moving abroad within the couple of years), hence we rent. I know we wouldn't be treated as such if we owned the house and I'm looking forward to moving soon - some days I've considered asking for police help for harassment (which is an arrestable offence). I'm sorry if you consider yourself unlucky OP, but have you tried just talking to them?

Paul_Varjak

Lavendyr wrote: »

Blimey, where do you live - I'll make a mental note to avoid the area

Actually I live in a quite country village (about 600 residents). I moved from a not so quite village and lived near a pub. I frequently had my car vandalised there - once to the tune of £3,000 and once had a car written-off by a drug addicted man who had a dispute with my neighbour. Then there was the other neighbour who thought it ok do dig up my path cos he wanted to connect to my drainage system...

That is why I moved!

tifnstav

i own a flat in a building of eight, four upstairs, four downstairs.
only two of us own our flats and the other owner is never in because she has the option of staying elsewhere (boyfriends or parents place).

we are stuck here 7 days a week listening to the wife beater downstairs who likes to give her a punch on the weekends and then there is the drug dealing burglar in the corner flat with a penchant for starting fires next to people's cars!

a few calls to the police tend to quieten it down a bit and things have been really rather peaceful for a few weeks - touch wood.

the only problem is the non-illegal things you can't ring the police for - when the girl who owns her flat does stay there she tends to bring her boyfriend back for VERY noisy sex!

so owner occupiers can be just as bad!!!!

clutton_2

if these tenants really are causing a nuisance, then write to environmental health, and there is no need to mention nationality - what has that got to do with anything ? - EH then have a duty to write to the landlord as he is legally responsible for tenants behaviour. Meantime keep a diary of "nuisances" just in case it goes to court - are you willing to be a witness ? if not, then your only option is to move.

i have spoken to many neighbours who just want to moan, and who wont make a statement which is the only way in which they will help EA get noisy folks out