Neighbours with sofa in front garden!

marksoton

m0bov wrote: »

The sofa could well be a fire hazard, attract vermin and look unsightly. I would suggest an anonymous call to the council to alert them to it. You might also mention it to the local Police on 101. It might attract fly tipping or get stolen or you might find vagrants using it for drinking.

Don't give your name or "rev it up" because you would need to declare it during the sale.

:rotfl:

This has made my day. Especially the bit about vagrants....:rotfl:

boltonben

Thanks for the replies everyone, most people have been very helpful! This isn't us trying to 'impose our way of life' this is us trying to sell our house when every person that has viewed it so far has commented on the sofa facing the living room window.

I'll go over after work tonight and try talking to them and offer to have it removed. There's no harm in trying I guess.

DaftyDuck

I suppose your (very large) telly isn't facing the inside of the same window?

Might just mean they're MSE as well...

always_sunny

boltonben wrote: »

The annoying bit is that I've never seen them sit on it and given the recent weather it must be absolutely soaking wet.....

I bet they're even more annoyed otherwise they'd be sitting on it. It's a bit chilly too.
If it's on their property and not obstructing the footpath, not much you can do!

Maybe you can report it to the council as 'flytipping' and they might investigate and would give a nudge to your neighbour?

hazyjo

ariba10 wrote: »

Offer them a tenner for it.

It has to be worth that to you.

boltonben wrote: »

Thanks for the replies everyone, most people have been very helpful! This isn't us trying to 'impose our way of life' this is us trying to sell our house when every person that has viewed it so far has commented on the sofa facing the living room window.

I'll go over after work tonight and try talking to them and offer to have it removed. There's no harm in trying I guess.

boltonben's suggestion is fab - rather than getting their backs up by asking them to do something they obviously don't want to do or aren't bothered by, offer them cash to take it. Hopefully you know someone with a van (or try a local site and ask for help) who can dump it for you.


I bet they'll bite your hand off for £20 for it. Even if a van costs you £50 (which I doubt it would just to the local tip), I'd say it's £70 well spent in your shoes.


Jx

Crashy_Time

If it is a chav area moving one sofa won`t make any difference, and if it is a good area having one sofa in a garden also won`t make any difference. Sentiment, interest rate expectations and job security have all be thrown into a tail-spin by recent events, and if you are in any way kite flying with pricing now it is just going to get harder and harder to sell.

SnooksNJ

Kalamazoo wrote: »

Unfortunately there's not much you can do about scruffy chavs being scruffy chavs

or Appalachian Mountain chic.

Davesnave

Our last selling experience was similarly blighted by the people next door, but because we were in an up-market area, there were no sofas, just a rusty bay-window VW camper under long-term repair.

Short of setting fire to it, I really had no answer to the problem. I know that 2 booked-in viewers mentioned it to the EA as a reason they drove away instead. I suspect there were more.

Our neighbours weren't entirely blind to the eyesore they'd created, or its effects on us; my wife saw to that. Shortly after their coffee and cake, the lady of the house attempted to hide the VW with large potted plants and a loose trellis framework, which only served to make it look more outlandish. However, it was a nice gesture....nicer than the ones I was giving her anyway.

We did sell, eventually..... to people who were friends with the neighbour. They'd lived a few doors away before and they fancied a move into our road.......

theartfullodger

Could be worse: You could be living next to someone who expects us lot to pay £369million for her home to be spruced up.

theartfullodger

Advertise it on eBay, free to anyone who will collect it.. (cheapest way to get rid of stuff you'd rather not have to drag down the dump....)