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knightstyle

Just getting up after another night with little sleep. Fireworks at 3am! Plus two quad bikes without silencers racing round a garden till after 12.
Earlier there was a childs 8th birthday party next door where they played loudly till after 11!
This is why we have had enough. Can't complain to council as we are trying to sell! However another neighbour complained and was told yet again no-one would come round and to keep a diary of events.

need_an_answer

So OP you don't like renters.

You are trying to sell your property and an investor offers to buy it. whats your stance on that?

would you decline the offer or would you take the money and run?

Red-Squirrel_2

Without even getting into the irrational prejudices against people who rent...

At your last house you moved onto a street full of owners and still ended up with problem neighbours, what makes you think you have any more control over the situation now? Are you going to ask all the owner occupiers if they ever plan to rent out in the future? :rotfl:

Get over yourself.

buglawton

knightstyle wrote: »

Just getting up after another night with little sleep. Fireworks at 3am! Plus two quad bikes without silencers racing round a garden till after 12.
Earlier there was a childs 8th birthday party next door where they played loudly till after 11!
This is why we have had enough. Can't complain to council as we are trying to sell! However another neighbour complained and was told yet again no-one would come round and to keep a diary of events.

It's all part of the very liberal democracy we live in.

Apparently in Switzerland you cannot mow a lawn on a Sunday and in a flat you mustn't flush the loo or use a washing machine after 10pm, and it's actually enforced. Owners of cars can be looked up on a public database from their number plates (though I wonder if that's still true after GDPR).

In the USA there are estates with a strictly enforced rule that no parked vans shall be visible plus a number of equally onerous rules to enforce a genteel atmosphere.

A usually quiet mate hat a party in his flat in Germany, nothing rowdy but loud music. He'd cleared it with his flat neighbours in advance but people 100m away in another block complained and uniformed police arrived in force and all music had to stop at 11.

It's very much in the British culture not to complain enough at a political level so the authorities remain toothless. While the wealthy will enforce their peace and quiet via property price filtering or good lawyers and private detectives.

SingleSue

We had an owner occupier who would nick the milk off our doorstep, had police drug raids and played music into the wee hours. This was supposed to be a nice estate with majority owner occupiers but that made no difference.

I now rent a HA house and despite my nearest neighbour thinking it is ok to cut the grass at 7 in the morning accompanied by music a couple of times a year, it is the quietest and most boring place I have ever lived and this is on a road where the majority of the houses are rented.

Some renters are eek but the majority are decent and similarly, some owner occupiers are eek but the majority are decent.

theartfullodger

OP presumably you must really resent Thatcher, who's 1988 Housing Act (with the controversial "Section 21") brought in the Buy-2-Let blight that fueled the boom in private landlords.

Hate to consider your views on all those renters who under ( largely her) right-2-buy purchased their homes and became owners. Do you think of them as "renters" you'd wish to avoid or "owners" with all those (by you perceived) admirable characteristics?

Do let us know.