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Sue neighbours or landlord for devaluing property?
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Would you like them to come tell you what you can and cant do?
No? Then just move on.
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The devaluation of your flat is irrelevant. Your neighbours have no obligation to help you prop up the value of your property or to help you sell it.
The only route you can go down is the anti-social behaviour / environment health route, to try and get them to change their behaviour or leave. The council deal with complaints of this sort but it won't help you sell your flat in the short term.
Start documenting anything that you think is anti-social or illegal.
Don't get your hopes that even if you are being subjected to severe harrassment and criminal behaviour from your neighbours that anythinjg will come of making logs and keeping diaries.
I don't wish to be negative but I used to believe that something would happen if I was subjected to glass being thrown into my garden, drug dealing at all hours, screaming and shouting, seeing child abuse and neglect daily, having things thrown at me when they were drunk (day time), playing thrash metal at night time for short bursts to wake up the working neighbours and so much more.
It was false hope because honestly, no one cares about nightmare neighbours and the impact that it has on peoples' lives.
Even if you are suffwering from0 -
Comms69, I'm not moving BECAUSE of my neighbours, I decided to move before they became like this and they're only particularly bad when I have viewings. I can deal with the other stuff, I can clean, I can spray air freshener but I can't muffle the sound of their weird moaning and coughing up of phlegm whenever I have a viewing. It can't be heard as loudly in my flat, just when entering/ exiting or walking past their door (which you have to pass to get to mine) as they literally stand on the other side and make their weird noises!
If I move out and rent, that won't do anything to help the situation. They'll still make it difficult when viewers view!
I think it's a territorial thing as they also sometimes do it when I have visitors. They don't like strangers...??!!0 -
if you complain about your neighbors officially, dont you need to declare it on a form to the buyers?"It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"
G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP0 -
Yes, you do. So I'm all in a quandary...0
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new_but_not_new wrote: »Yes, you do. So I'm all in a quandary...
Perhaps it's Tea and Cakes time with your neighbor"It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"
G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP0 -
new_but_not_new wrote: »Yes, you do. So I'm all in a quandary...
I cannot emphasise enough what a complete waste of time it is to complain about your neighbours.0 -
I don't think its the weird noises that are the problem - its the mess (which is something you can resolve yourself without getting into a neighbour dispute).
Clear up the mess, keep it clean, open communal windows/doors and the smell will go or at least fade.
From one viewing most people would think the noises (as long as they can't be heard in your flat) were just a one off or something they could put up with on its own.0
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