Neighbour problems, Police matter or Estate Agent?

Queen_Of_Dreams

all sorted out now thank you.

TBeckett100

It's a police matter now but you need evidence. Keep a log and get a camera to catch his anti social behaviour. Copy in the estate agent as well so they can inform the LL

BitterAndTwisted

It seems to me that your best bet would be to contact your ex-neighbours and see if they'd be prepared to evict this a-hole.

Estate/letting-agent would be powerless to do anything other than contact the owner on your behalf.

Police ditto unless you have documentary evidence of criminal damage but if your neighbour is a clever-d!ck he might be able to explain it away as an accident. Either way, it might just be adding fuel to the fire.

cajef

I would also report him to the RSPCA as it sounds like the conditions the dogs are in are unacceptable.

Mojisola

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

It seems to me that your best bet would be to contact your ex-neighbours

I wonder what state the inside of the house is in if he doesn't care about dog mess in the garden.

They may be grateful to know what he's like before the property gets too horrible.

It's very unusual for a LL to allow a tenant to keep seven dogs - do they know about them?

pmlindyloo

With neighbours like this you have to use more than one approach.

See here:

https://www.gov.uk/how-to-resolve-neighbour-disputes/overview

The dog mess and noise is the environmental health, the vandalism is the police, the whole behaviour should be reported to the landlord and estate agent. Plus, RSPCA. Plus local community police officer.

As already said these agencies will all require evidence and are notoriously difficult to resolve.

if you can get your neighbours on board and add their signatures to any letter this will help.

You have to be very organised with this kind of complaint. Write to your neighbour outlining the problem and detail all the instances so far.

Keep all letters/diaries/videos/pictures dated and documented.

Your final option is to go to court. You could find a solicitor to write a letter to your neighbour which might scare the 'sh*t' out of him (but maybe not)

Unfortunately these neighbour disputes rarely go well and can cost a considerable amount in terms of hassle and money if you take the legal route.

If you know the landlord well I would personally pursue this approach first as friendship may have its rewards.

WeAreGhosts

Queen_Of_Dreams wrote: »

I did call the estate agent at one point to ask if they would be able to pass on a message to the owners and they told me they couldn't do that.

Ask them why they can't do this. There's no data protection problem as you won't be privvy to the contact details.
I had to do the same when my lovely neighbours were having round-the-clock parties.

Bennifred

I wonder if your ex-neighbours are on social media of some kind?
:cool:

KRB2725

Do you have your former neighbours full names - you may e able to trace them via 192.com. If the name is somewhat unusual, google them, you may find their employment details come up (as in a lot of companies post key personnel details on their websites) and you can then email them.

Make a formal complaint to the letting agent, they will be duty bound (I believe) to pass it on to the owners - if you can get your neighbours to join you then so much the better.

The criminal damage I would report to the Police. Get it on record even if they can't take action.

Report to the RSPCA.

moneyistooshorttomention

Basically, the EA obviously does have contact details for your ex-neighbours.

I would be giving that EA a letter to pass onto the neighbours (copy kept). This letter would have a covering letter for the EA stating that the Data Protection Act only applies to not giving you the contact details - but does not apply to them forwarding on a letter to the ex-neighbour. Quote the relevant section of that Act - to make it plain that you do know what you are talking about obviously.

In your letter to that ex-neighbour point out that you are obviously writing it out of concern for yourself (and the other neighbours) - but that they will probably be interested to know what sort of state their property is doubtless getting into.

Enclose evidence of these dogs - ie photos, etc - to prove the sort of state the outside of the house is and the likelihood of the inside being as bad (if not worse).

They wouldn't be at all happy if their EA knew the state of play but didn't tell them (ie didn't pass that letter onto them), as their investment is depreciating because of this character.

I would think that its the case that most of us would want to know this info. and would investigate to see if its true.

slowpoke_rodriguez

What are the agents like? Are they a decent reputable company or are they a bit shifty?
Could they be doing a favour for a mate who's finding it hard to rent a place with his seven dogs? Hence the reluctance to contact the owner?