House next door being bought for social housing

C_Mababejive

When they go to sleep after running around, just bang your music on nice and loud.

Dan-Dan

susan42 wrote: »

I have just sold a house and there was a part on the form that I had to sign saying "what are the neighbours" like. Surely you will have some form of recompense
Might be worth taking it up with solicitors

I'm not an expert and views are entirely my own. So if I'm talking a load of twaddle , my apologies

Sorry , you are talking twaddle , there is no such question on the the TA6 form as "what are the neighbours like"

AdrianC

Dan-Dan wrote: »

Sorry , you are talking twaddle , there is no such question on the the TA6 form as "what are the neighbours like"

No, but there is a section on the form asking about disputes with neighbours, and that could easily be rephrased as "what are the neighbours like".

But going back to the original problem... The only practical way to stop this company from buying the house is to buy it yourself, probably gazumping them to do so. Not really a practical solution, I'm sure. Apart from that, there is nothing very much you can do about the ownership at all.

But you MIGHT be able to do something about the noise issue - there are proper channels, the council, the police, to record issues officially and then enforce them.

At the end of the day, though, these people DO exist, and society needs to take proper steps to help them change - which this house is doing. It's not going to be easy, but the only alternative is to leave them to rot in the gutter, physically or metaphorically.

Dan-Dan

AdrianC wrote: »

No, but there is a section on the form asking about disputes with neighbours, and that could easily be rephrased as "what are the neighbours like".

Sorry Adrian , but no it couldnt , as it is written currently, there is no room for personal opinion , just facts , it is in no way as open ended a question as "what are the neighbours like"

fivetide

Got to agree with Adrian. It's essentially your chance to say if you get on with them or not.


Davesnave - have you considered this is the house they move to after being in a unit and these are the well behaved ones?


OP - You should complain. Stop hiding away from your own house. Ask them to keep the row down. The response will determine what you do next. First thing for me would be to complain to the owners and inform them that if they can't control their tenants you'll have to call in the police/council. That could cause a number of issues but might make them monitor things a bit better.


They can't action something they might not know about. Keep a diary and notes of the issues as evidence, just as you would any other problem neighbour. Good luck.

Alter_ego

Sammy.

Offer to sell your house to the company next door, then move on to somewhere quieter. You have no hope of winning in these circumstances.

Sammy5

Thanks for the suggestions. I do understand that these people need to be housed somewhere, but why should this happen at my expense? Let's say two years down the line and I'm trying to sell the place, I'm sure it's not going to help if I've got a trouble couple in there beating the hell out of each other or swearing at each other on the front lawn (as happened last Friday). When I was growing up, maybe till around 17 or 18 then yes, I was very liberal and cared a great deal about this sort of thing. But I'm 34 now and quite frankly as an adult I'm sick of getting cheated every single time these situations occur. I couldn't spend weekends at my first house and how my girlfriend and I got through that 5 years I'll never know, but it certainly took it's toll on the relationship, I do know that much. I had two good years in the next house, that's all... And that's why I really couldn't care less about other people's problems. Sorry, but I've really had enough of them! If the people who like working with these kids like them so much, then why don't they build a little annex onto their own houses and keep them there?

Anyway, enough of me being a horrible human being I guess I either sell quickly and leg it (that'll look suspicious), rent it out (not massively keen) or use it as I do now - basically as a drop-in house where I stay if I've been out drinking and can't afford the taxi back home (usually around £30 after midnight), but stay with other people the rest of the time. Which isn't exactly great. And without sounding overly dramatic, I was already feeling quite down anyway and I've been thinking more and more that I'd prefer not to be alive (and that makes me feel guilty, as I've lost a lot of relatives these past few years including my Mum and I feel incredible guilt knowing that some of them didn't get enough time here to do what they wanted). But that's where I'm at. I just wanted a place to live for a couple of years until my girlfriend and I could look at buying a bigger place. If I make it that far, at this stage, I honestly think it'd be a miracle.

Davesnave

fivetide wrote: »

Davesnave - have you considered this is the house they move to after being in a unit and these are the well behaved ones?
.

It's possible. When young people leave the care of the charity my DD works for, they go into open market rented housing, presumably HMOs, so they're no longer directly connected with that organisation. I think social services are still in contact, however.

That's not to say they don't come back and visit.

I can't say what happens elsewhere.

Sammy5

Sorry, just realised - when I say 'home', I mean the family home, which is now on the market to be sold. So tick tock tick tock that could be gone in a few months. For my Dad's sake I hope it sells quickly, but obviously for my sake I hope it doesn't.

jaylee3

I wanna know what this balsawood matchstick type house looks like!

It sounds cute.