Neighbours From Hell + Selling Up

Person_one

mimi1234 wrote: »

Pray do tell what a real neighbour from hell would do so I start counting my blessings.

A warning, some of these are very upsetting:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/14378907.Michael_Last__76__jailed_after_exposing_himself_to_neighbours_through_patio_windows/?ref=mr&lp=4

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3482363/Looter-ransacked-flood-stricken-neighbours-Storm-Desmond-checking-managed-rescue-valuables-jailed-five-years.html

http://www.dover-express.co.uk/Dover-neighbours-hell-Graham-April-Totterdell/story-28275361-detail/story.html

https://www.essex.police.uk/news_features/features_archive/2015/july_2015-1/trusted_neighbour_jailed_for_b.aspx

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33272871

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/neighbour-pensioner-mary-logie-appears-7221536#eJygh9Xc21HZZLZQ.97

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2724994/Neighbour-hell-81-spared-jailed-despite-continuing-six-year-campaign-hate-got-slapped-ASBO.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/neighbour-hell-caught-cctv-after-5396723

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-flybe-pilot-drowned-neighbours-9296651

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223626/Woman-kills-neighbours-cats-anti-freeze-stop-urinating-strawberries.html

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/racist-nightmare-neighbour-jailed-assaulting-10581228

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14371690.Stinking_bonfires_land_nuisance_neighbour_in_court/

Pixie5740

I had problems with noisy neighbours and I didn't lose money selling the property. The council was really good at dealing with the noisy neighbours (music blasting and to blaring between the hours of midnight and 5am every day) and once threatened with an ASBO the trainee teacher (and her boyfriend who lived there but I suspect she hadn't declared to the council) reigned it in. I only ended up moving because I was offered a job 200 miles away.

I don't know if it was because the issue was resolved that I didn't lose money or because a BTL investor bought it and didn't care.

Edit: Unless you're moving to a detached home then you'll always get some noise from your neighbours. Luckily all I hear from my current neighbours is their front door being slammed and then the communal door. They're a young couple and I think it's the first time either have lived away from home and the first time they've lived together so row quite a lot. I can't hear the rows but apparently the neighbours between them and I can.

elsien

mimi1234 wrote: »

Pray do tell what a real neighbour from hell would do so I start counting my blessings.

In my case, play rap music so loudly day and night it makes the furniture in the house the other side of me shake. So loud that I can't hear my TV or talk on the phone. Turn it up and down at irregular intervals so just as you think it's calmed down it cranks up again. Also combined with lots of shouting and a barking dog.

carefullycautious

slamming doors and an extractor fan


I wish that was all my neighbours from hell had done during 8 years of horror at their hands.

Bossypants

Just want to chime in that just because other people have had it worse doesn't mean it isn't a real problem for the OP and they have a right to take it seriously.

In my case, the downstairs cafe had speakers bolted into the ceiling and the faint traces of music would pipe up no matter how low they turned it or what I did to insulate. Hardly audible for anyone else, but I'm sensitive to that type of electronic sound and it drove me absolutely up the wall, to the point where I couldn't relax at home while it was on. Fortunately they were reasonable people and amenable to changing their set-up to smaller speakers hanging off the wall, so now they can play their music at a much louder volume and I can't hear a thing, but if we hadn't been able to reach a compromise I would have moved as soon as feasible.

Person_one

Bossypants wrote: »

Just want to chime in that just because other people have had it worse doesn't mean it isn't a real problem for the OP and they have a right to take it seriously.

Absolutely, if they are particularly sensitive to this kind of noise they can do whatever they feel they need to do, including moving out.

Trying to push their mother into moving when she has lived there (with these same neighbours) for over 30 years and clearly doesn't want to, is not the answer!

A bit of perspective is often useful though, if you're starting to get a bit too entrenched and obsessive about something that is relatively minor. In an earlier thread she refers to the neighbours as 'the things'. :eek:

moneyistooshorttomention

I can see the point of them being mild compared to many. All except one of those linked-to articles revealed a really bad nfh - the exception being the woman who got frustrated by next doors cats using her garden as a loo (she should have tried to scare the cats out of her garden - rather than killed them). She wasnt an nfh though - just a very frustrated gardener.

My own definition of nfh has come to mean:
- trying to steal part of your garden
- trespassing in your garden
- bad-mouthing you when you've done nothing wrong
- trying to discourage your visitors from coming to your house
etc

Person_one

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I can see the point of them being mild compared to many. All except one of those linked-to articles revealed a really bad nfh - the exception being the woman who got frustrated by next doors cats using her garden as a loo (she should have tried to scare the cats out of her garden - rather than killed them). She wasnt an nfh though - just a very frustrated gardener.

Um, she killed her neighbour's cats, deliberately, vindictively, painfully. That's not enough in your eyes to make her a "neighbour from hell'? :eek:

Bossypants

Yes to be fair, I do think the terms 'neighbours from hell' is often overused where people really mean 'neighbours whose needs and lifestyle choices are incompatible with my own', which seems to be more the case here as well.

mimi1234

carefullycautious wrote: »

slamming doors and an extractor fan

I wish that was all my neighbours from hell had done during 8 years of horror at their hands.

I could write you a whole list of what's happened but I didn't want to go on and on and on. The 2 points I mentioned were the 2 main ones that are affecting us now but a lot has gone on over the years.

* Parking their troop of cars in our parking spot and then yelling at us if we ask them to move it which means we have to park somewhere else and then move it back once they decide to move theirs. If it happened once in a while, it would be fine, but when it's almost every day, it's not on. They pay road tax and can therefore park wherever they want or so they think.

* Using a pressure washer to put all the junk in their yard into ours. Once my Mother saw what was going on and confronted them about it and they yelled back at her and told her to stop being so nosey and it was the wind that had blown it all into our yard when he clearly had a hose in his hand and was doing it.

* Hammering and DIYing only after 10pm at night.

* We've been accused of stealing their parcels as well a few times. The postman / delivery man "supposedly" left a parcel with us and they came to collect it. When we didn't have it, they accused of thieving it.

The list could go on and on and on but I don't want to bore you all.

Anyway, like I said, I used the wrong phrase. It should have been noisy neighbours and not neighbours from hell. My stories are nowhere as horrific as what other people have suffered and I am grateful for that but none of this should be happening in the first place.

Apologies for having upset so many people. That was not my intention.