Neighbours with sofa in front garden!

nubbins

Looking out for society instead of his own pocket...priceless

marksoton

Crashy_Time wrote: »

Just drawing attention to the fact that blaming not being able to sell your house on a sofa sitting in someone`s garden is stretching it a bit, a bit head in the sand IMO considering the economic realities just now.
The drum doesn`t need a new skin, the much larger MSM drum is banging away with all the old HPC meme`s every day now. A good HPC will be the healthiest thing to happen to UK society in 20 years IMO.

I'd say it's a valid reason.

Maybe, but trying to induce it isn't healthy.

Crashy_Time

marksoton wrote: »

I'd say it's a valid reason.

Maybe, but trying to induce it isn't healthy.

Caring too much what people post on the internet isn`t really healthy either.

Bossworld

Had a few interesting situations with parking at our old house, mainly with neighbours parking across their drive rather than on it.

One took it upon himself, having got rid of his second car, to put a wooden picnic table on his drive, and put the car across the drive instead. When they did occasionally have a second car, the picnic table went on their garden adjacent to the drive.

Luckily it was on the grass when we sold. Guess it doesn't bother some people but I couldn't comprehend it.

Crashy_Time

nubbins wrote: »

Looking out for society instead of his own pocket...priceless

Many more people will welcome a collapse of the housing market and even banks than would have in`08, we are now in very different times, just look at how people are voting? The realisation is there that we need to tear down the old system and people can see that pricing the young out of housing just doesn`t work...for society as a whole. Basically my advice is, if you get a "low" offer, instead of blaming it on a neighbours sofa - take it!

vqmismatch

Davesnave wrote: »

I didn't put forward that suggestion seriously. However I was incredulous that someone would be happy to cover up their car to please a neighbour, even though I had a problem when selling from a car renovation next door.

Building work, especially renovation, creates incredible amounts of waste, which those who never become involved with it know nothing about and probably don't understand. I've had heavy side deliveries amounting to roughly 50 tonnes over the last 3 years, so a similar amount of material has to be found a home....... somewhere.

The previous owners, whose work I have mainly been undoing, constructed tumuli and long barrows here. I've had to make those disappear as well!

The neighbour in question was a nice chap who shared many interests. Were it the first time we had spoken or if he wasn't so easy to get on with I probably would not have been open to the suggestion. The car wasn't going to be moving for several weeks as the engine was in the kitchen being stripped so a cover was a nice way to keep the weather off and protect the paint over the winter whilst it was going to be out of use.


Perhaps the key issue here, if not for the whole mse housing forum, is that trying to get on well with your neighbours makes everything much easier.

A good example might be my current neighbours barking dogs. It drove me round the bend for the first week, the other neighbours are apparently constantly on the line to the council about it. Since the owner appeared under my land rover whilst I was struggling with a fiddly job, and then immediately got stuck in to help, his dogs have ceased to irritate me.

Davesnave

vqmismatch wrote: »

Perhaps the key issue here, if not for the whole mse housing forum, is that trying to get on well with your neighbours makes everything much easier.

A good example might be my current neighbours barking dogs. It drove me round the bend for the first week, the other neighbours are apparently constantly on the line to the council about it. Since the owner appeared under my land rover whilst I was struggling with a fiddly job, and then immediately got stuck in to help, his dogs have ceased to irritate me.

I don't think anyone who usually posts on this forum would advocate anything other than trying to get on well with neighbours, but the key word there is 'trying.'

Sometimes, there comes a point where a neighbour's desire to control or dominate their environment results in behaviour which is disrespectful and unreasonable. When that boundary is crossed without any apparent resistance, my experience is that it will soon be crossed again in other ways, or in the same way, but more confidently.

I'm glad you chose the example of barking dogs, because this was something I was forced to tackle after my last move, although ironically, it was the dog owner who opened our first conversations by berating me about my management of the hedgerows near his property. He was fearful this would cause his private garden to become open to prying eyes. Oh dear!

It's a long story, but in short, after the 'trying' you mention, probably for a year or so, which got me precisely nowhere, I stood up to the dog owner and rewarded bouts of excessive dog noise with the removal of trees and other vegetation. He responded abusively, did a bit of damage etc etc and I just carried on impassively with the 'punishments.'

Now, Mr Dog, as I call him, no longer has a very private garden although there's still half of the original cover left. The dog noise has stopped, so I've allowed the hedgerow to re-grow. If he behaves as he's doing now, his cover will return in about 3 - 4 years, which is roughly how long it took for him to get the message that I wasn't to be walked over.

I won't bore you all with another neighbour who tried to stop me selling plants and produce at my gate! :rotfl:

Good if you can ignore the dogs; I never could.

vqmismatch

Davesnave wrote: »

Good if you can ignore the dogs; I never could.

I expected it to be murder living next to them, but from the land rover incident onwards I hear them barking and remember the neighbour fondly. Somehow that stops the noise bothering me.

I lived in another place where less noisy dogs drove me to distraction, I think the association with either a thoroughly nice chap or a complete sphincter is perhaps what makes the difference in degree of annoyance.

The ones trying to stop you selling plants and produce sound very odd. Everywhere I have lived it has been encouraged (in no small part because such people tend to end up with left overs that they want to give away rather than let go to waste…).

One of the more awkward conversations I had with a new neighbour came after they heard the noise of my pump action shotgun action being cycled whilst I was cleaning it on the patio. Since then I have tried to mention shooting to new neighbours soon after arriving so there is less shock if/when they notice firearms moving in or out of the house.

Shooting friends have had significant issues with curtain twitchers getting far too excited at such things before.

worried_jim

Use it to plug that blown down fence panel from storm Angus-

ElsieMonkey

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

I haven't ...perhaps I should.

I mean my front garden may not be great but we spend time clearing the (elderly) neighbours oaths when it snows and always call on them in said weather to do their shopping. As well as keeping an eye on them to make sure everything's ok.
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I'm quiet ...no loud parties & keep myself to myself.

But of course I'm a bad neighbour because my front garden's not in pristine condition

It's not about being a 'bad' neighbour or about having a 'pristine' garden (keeping something clean and tidy is basic). It's about having some respect and some consideration for those around you.