Selling house, row with neighbours...

Mojisola

tlc678910 wrote: »

How about you send your hubby over with a new decent quality rotary washing line and a bottle of wine/a cake (or whatever does it for them). Apologise that you were worried about the fence getting damaged but say you are upset at falling out. (Blatantly ignoring past run ins). Short term pain for long term gain. Keep the receipt in case they won't accept it.

Wine and cake, yes.

The rotary washing line isn't necessary.

The neighbours were wrong to attach their line to your fence. If they want a washing line, they should put in a pole like everyone else has to.

Smodlet

mermaid85 wrote: »

Actually the first time they did this was before we had completed on the house, and it had been empty for 6 months. Not exactly the best start to neighbourly relations to have thrown 6 months worth of cuttings over someone's fence before they move in.

The second which was when I pulled them up on it, my OH was working abroad and I had a 3 week old baby.

So yes, they were our cuttings. But unreasonable circumstances. And the law states that they should be offered back, but the owner doesn't have to accept them. Certainly they shouldn't just be launched over a fence.

To be fair, how many people respect a property that is not occupied? I am not saying they should not, at all, just that it is easier to disregard the boundaries of a property which has no occupant to complain.

Smodlet

norm_ wrote: »

Proof if ever you needed not to move to an estate or next door to housing association homes.

Would that we all had the option to move to Downton Abbey!

justme111

[/SIZE][/FONT]As I said, you must declare everything.[/QUOTE]
I once was cutting the grass at 9 pm 8 years ago. My ex neighbour asked me please not to as their daughter had exams the next day. Lovely neighbours, swapping children's stuff and having drinks together otherwise. Will the neighbour have to declare it if she was to sell the house?
Don't you just love it when someone says something surreally silly intentionally and then argues the case it is true ..

BrassicWoman

mermaid85 wrote: »

So yes, they were our cuttings. But unreasonable circumstances. And the law states that they should be offered back, but the owner doesn't have to accept them. Certainly they shouldn't just be launched over a fence.

So from their perspective
- noisy dog
- don't deal with overgrown garden
- makes ridiculous fuss over a washing line

??

moneyistooshorttomention

norm_ wrote: »

Proof if ever you needed not to move to an estate or next door to housing association homes.

It's possible to get nuisance neighbours - even if they own their home. Neglecting their property/making noise/throwing rubbish around/trying to use your property/etc. (instantly thinks of one house nearby that manages to do all those things - or tries to....).

Chavs do sometimes get to own houses:cool:

Guest101

justme111 wrote: »

[/SIZE][/FONT]As I said, you must declare everything.
I once was cutting the grass at 9 pm 8 years ago. My ex neighbour asked me please not to as their daughter had exams the next day. Lovely neighbours, swapping children's stuff and having drinks together otherwise. Will the neighbour have to declare it if she was to sell the house?
Don't you just love it when someone says something surreally silly intentionally and then argues the case it is true ..

That's not a dispute....


A dispute is where there are two conflicting arguments. That is simply a request, which presumably you went along with.


Yes I love people giving silly examples to try justify an incorrect position...

mermaid85

BrassicWoman wrote: »

So from their perspective
- noisy dog
- don't deal with overgrown garden
- makes ridiculous fuss over a washing line

??

If you like. Believe me I have tried to see things from their perspective.

I didn't come here for a row.

bouicca21

I didn't come here for a row

But if you word descriptions of your disputes carefully, the buyers will probably conclude that you are the problem, not the neighbour.

mermaid85

bouicca21 wrote: »

But if you word descriptions of your disputes carefully, the buyers will probably conclude that you are the problem, not the neighbour.

That's fair enough, and the path I was considering. If we are the problem it's no big deal since we're moving.
Just the original post could have been made a little less accusingly if that's what was meant.