need a quick sale, nightmare neighbours

jjjchughes

We had to make an official complaint. like i said, i couldnt sleep at night if i wasn't honest with new buyer. The tennent has lived there since may so hopefully it will get sorted. Hopefully (but doubtfuly) new buyer won't be bothered or will plan to deal with it. I know I wouldn't buy somewhere knowing there was a troublesome neighbour but i'm a quiet person who cant handle confrontation.

Ozzuk

If you can't drop the price further then that likely rules out auction/house buying companies. Also, not many people will buy your house with that issue declared unless it is priced at bargain/developer level so you may need to consider other options.

Could you rent yours out (if you can change mortgage) and rent somewhere else? Hopefully in time she will move out/calm down.

Ozzuk

If you can't drop the price further then that likely rules out auction/house buying companies. Also, not many people will buy your house with that issue declared unless it is priced at bargain/developer level so you may need to consider other options.

Could you rent yours out (if you can change mortgage) and rent somewhere else? Hopefully in time she will move out/calm down.

Davesnave

always_sunny wrote: »

Keep a journal of the noise, establish patterns and plan viewing accordingly.

Keeping a diary is important anyway as evidence for Environmental Health.

If it's bad/regular enough, they should install monitoring equipment which would make a non-subjective assessment possible and lead hopefully to a strong warning to the tenant during her probationary period, or it might even get her relocated, but I wouldn't hold my breath on that.

It's the nature of council/HA action to be staged rather than 'one strike and you're out.'

Tiners

Well you can't have your cake and eat it, you need to accept that your house isn't worth as much as you'd like to think it's worth, (especially now you've got nightmare neighbours) and further reduce the price, even if that does mean ''making a loss'' (horror of horrors, who'd have thought you don't always make huge unearned profits every time you sell a house)

moneyistooshorttomention

Personally - I think the best idea is to try and be as patient as possible - whilst keeping a diary for Environmental Health of the noise.

It sounds like you should be able to have these noisy tenants moved on - you'll just have to be a bit patient and distinctly persistent about it.

Much cheaper to do what you can about handling the noise whilst it still exists. I think there are good noise-cancelling headphones out there now? Earplugs at night? Have a weekend away somewhere quieter at intervals to "recharge your batteries" whilst this situation is going on.

I should think it will add up to a sight less hassle and expense than trying to move house and losing some of the money tied-up in your present house because of these neighbours.

Cheaper to spend even £2,000 on weekends away and headphones etc to deal with the noise than lose, say, £10,000 of the money you have tied-up in your house by moving when you don't intend to do so of yourself iyswim whilst you are sorting the situation out (with the help of Environmental Health).

Another thought - do you have places nearby where you can go for a mini-break from it of an hour or two? (eg nearby park/library/etc). I found it helped when my neighbours were at their worst with the way they were towards me initially just to know there are a couple of places I can go to "get away from it" just for a breather of an hour or two. I was quite fortunate to even have somewhere I could have just let myself in in the middle of the night if I needed to/have a cup of coffee/take a few deep breaths and then come home. It was just knowing that facility was there that helped me cope whilst it was going on - though I only used it once (on a particularly bad occasion).

jjjchughes

Thank you but why should i have to get out of my house because of her disrespect and disregard for others. council are writing her a letter and sending me a form to fill out for two weeks then the possibilty of sound monitoring equipment. Id already logged every incident and sent it to them, seems so long winded

Crashy_Time

Tiners wrote: »

Well you can't have your cake and eat it, you need to accept that your house isn't worth as much as you'd like to think it's worth, (especially now you've got nightmare neighbours) and further reduce the price, even if that does mean ''making a loss'' (horror of horrors, who'd have thought you don't always make huge unearned profits every time you sell a house)[/QUOTE]


Yep, little things (or not so little if you have to put up with it every day as in this case) can throw a spanner in the works, especially in a declining market.

jjjchughes

Well you can't have your cake and eat it, you need to accept that your house isn't worth as much as you'd like to think it's worth, (especially now you've got nightmare neighbours) and further reduce the price, even if that does mean ''making a loss'' (horror of horrors, who'd have thought you don't always make huge unearned profits every time you sell a house)

We have already re priced below the valuation price.

Cakeguts

jjjchughes wrote: »

Well you can't have your cake and eat it, you need to accept that your house isn't worth as much as you'd like to think it's worth, (especially now you've got nightmare neighbours) and further reduce the price, even if that does mean ''making a loss'' (horror of horrors, who'd have thought you don't always make huge unearned profits every time you sell a house)

We have already re priced below the valuation price.

The valuation price isn't the price you are expected to get. It is a guess based on what other houses have sold for. The actual value of your house is what someone will pay you for it. All estate agents can do when they value a house is to make an educated guess at what someone will pay for it they don't know for certain. In your case the uncertainty as to price is your bad neighbours. So in the experience of the estate agents they probably know what is a good idea for a valuation for an ex council house on that estate but they don't know or won't admit how much of a discount to that value there needs to be for bad neighbours. For example if one set of estate agents had told you that you could ask £150k for your house and another one had valued it at £100k because of the neighbours who would you have chosen to market it? The estate agents have to get your business so they aren't going to value it at £50k less than any other house on the estate has sold for because then they won't get your business.