Need advice: bad neighbours

corell

AdrianC, they have been here over 6 months. They are currently due to be signing a new tenancy, however haven't so far since I last spoke to their agent.

missprice - they are not paying their rent themselves. A parent is controlling the rent and bills. This in itself would throw a big red flag for me if I were an agent/landlord, however it hasn't seemed to for theirs.

corell

Cakeguts wrote: »

People with severe mental illnesses do not upset their neighbours. They are making excuses. There is nothing about mental illness that stops people from being polite and thinking of other people as in not causing problems for neighbours. Also mental illness doesn't cause people to shout abuse at their neighbours. What causes this in antisocial people. Antisocial people do this without being mentally ill. The mental illness is a separate issue.



In fact it annoys me a lot that these horrible people are excusing their behaviour by using mental illness as an excuse because it makes people think that all mentally ill people behave like this.

It's very much antisocial behaviour and not their mental state. It annoys me as I have mental health issues also, but I'm not acting like they are. Their behaviour has an effect on my mental state too, which they obviously don't care about so why should I care for theirs.

Murphybear

If the fires are genuinely causing a problem you can call the fire brigade. Better to do this than have the fires get out of control. The FB would rather you did

Richdenman

The main issue hear is that eviction is a civil matter and as you are neither tennent nor landlord, you have absolutely no direct power to have them evicted. If it is social housing then the council can deal with antisocial behaviour and evict problem tennents. If it is a private landlord and they are paying rent on time and not damaging the property the landlord probably won’t care.

Reporting incidents to the police is unlikely to resolve the issue unless you are the victim. If it is domestic violence then they may be arrested but charges are not likely to be brought by the victim. As you say there is then a risk of reprisal.

If you have a family you may find you have to move to get away from it.

Try talking to your letting agent for advice.

JamesTP

I suggest you try to collect as much evidence as you can so that you can build up a case with the police, but eventually someone is going to have to take responsibility for doing this. It sounds like an easy case to prove if you get the right evidence and with today's technology esp cctv there are lots of options.

I expect what is holding up the obvious is fear of the repercussions. Amn option is to make the report anonymous. If the evidence is strong enough to get a conviction the police may not require a statement from witnesses, but it always helps because from what you've said, they will want a conviction.

Good luck

BurnCK

Start by contacting the local council to complain about the noise. In my last property my neighbours has 2 dogs that would sit at the window and bark constantly at people walking past. As I worked from home a lot too, it drove me crazy. I spoke to my neighbour who basically said what do I want him to do about it...they're guard dogs. Anyway, after several exchanges I just contacted the council who sent them a warning letter. They soon made an effort to keep the dogs away from the windows.


If that doesn't work then you have further options available to you via the council under the Environmental Protection Act, you'll just need to keep a diary record of disturbances and if you can get a few videos of incidents.

need_an_answer

There seems to be a flood of old posts being bought back to life today....this one was 2018 previously.

Diddydot

You could always ring the probabtion service. They would love to hear this especially if it’s a condition I.e no fires. You didn’t mention if next door have children. If so rules will be stricter on probation conditions. Just with regards to other people at the property.

Talking to my children would be enough to make my stomach roll. Personally, move.

Do you have the same landlord?