Wanting to sell but issues with neighbours

Davesnave

Smodlet wrote: »

You would not happen to represent such a company, would you? I can't imagine where I got this idea from, other than from your username. I suppose you do realise this is the UK, not Arizona? Also that advertising is not allowed on this forum?

If you think they're advertising, don't quote them or the mods can't kill the post without killing yours.

I've just pushed the spam button. Sometimes it works.

wesleyad

Serena2013 wrote: »

Yes I have put hiking socks under the bed legs and that has made a bit of difference. I am also trying to learn to sleep with vibrations now

What sort of floors do you have? A partial solution would be to carpet with a decent acoustic underlay. Up to you whether the cost is worth it, and also you might have nice wooden floors that you don't want to cover.

Smodlet

Davesnave wrote: »

If you think they're advertising, don't quote them or the mods can't kill the post without killing yours.

I've just pushed the spam button. Sometimes it works.

I, too, pushed the button, Davesnave.

Davesnave

Smodlet wrote: »

I, too, pushed the button, Davesnave.

They've gone, so this time it worked!

Smodlet

At least we can say we achieved something today. :rotfl: Arizona, indeed... This will now make no sense to anyone coming late to this thread.

PersianCatLady

economic wrote: »

You could complain to your council about noise - they should have a team who deals with these sorts of issues. They could enforce action against the neighbor.

Also the complaints should be confidential so the council wont disclose to the neighbor who complained. Of course it will be obvious to the neighbor but that doesn't matter. You wont have to disclose anything to any potential buyer. No way that it can be found as given its confidential.

It would be pretty obvious who was complaining though.

hazyjo

Smodlet wrote: »

If I viewed a property, any property but especially a flat, where the vendor was playing music, the first reason that would occur to me would be that they were trying to cover up neighbours' noise. I would make an excuse and walk.

I'm a in a house so maybe different, but I ALWAYS play music when I have viewers! I can't stand it being silent when viewing. To be fair though, it's not loud and my last house was so quiet you'd have heard a pin drop even with the background music on!

shortcrust

BorisThomson wrote: »

Not unusual for small and not so small families to live in one bed flats in high cost areas.

As above I can only suggest trying to build bridges, the tea and cake approach. I'm struggling to believe that they're having fans on throughout the day and night just to annoy you, and your reaction to normal behaviour was excessive. Do you think you've become so fixated on the issue that you're making it worse for yourself?

(I have hyperacusis, so appreciate how unsettling noise can be and how we can overreact to it.)

Me too. After weeks of neighbour noise hell I once lost my rag and repeatedly smashed a dumbbell into my wall. Very out of character! It didn't bother the neighbour and made a real mess of my wall.:o

theinbetweener007

I feel for you.

I have had horrendous neighbours both in flats and houses. It is horrible. And I believe you when you say people will make noise and disrupt you just out of spite and in addition to them just not having any class. I personally have had neighbours turning music on at 1am despite their 4 year old screaming for them to turn it off. The same people, despite having an empty driveway, insisted on parking close enough to the entrance of my driveway so that I couldn’t get in if there was also a car parked opposite (as there often was). So I feel you.

My advice? Nothing is worth your health. Put it on the market tomorrow at the market rate. Whatever happens during viewings happens. You will get more. If you don’t, drop the price.

Ignore the scaremongers saying you have to declare this as a dispute, you definitely do not. If it involves a police charge then yes. But this hasn’t been so you’re good and as you’ve declared the problem is, unjustifiably, with you and you have no reason to believe they will target the new owner.

You are starting to concentrate on the neighbours rather than living your life. You have tuned in. They are not nice people. Sell it on an no chain basis, get what you can, move on even if renting in interim or with a friend. Life will get better and you’ll be surprised how quickly you forget.

As for them? Karma will get them. That’s why there’s 3 of them in a one bedroom flat.

Goodluck

Smodlet

I do not think advising the OP to lie on the TA6 form is good advice. The buyer of the OP's flat could well discover there was trouble before they moved in. Why would these horrible neighbours not tell them? It is the kind of thing chavs do. Were this to happen, the OP would be in a whole load of legal ssshhh and so, potentially, might the EA be.