Neighbours rotary washing line hindering our house sale

NicNicP

Our neighbour has piles of wood and other ‘junk’ in the back garden and an old caravan, car, other junk and 3 bins at the front of his house. Didn’t put me off buying the house at all although I imagine it put off some buyers. I love the house and when I’m sat in my front room or the garden I can’t see what he has in his gardens.

NaughtiusMaximus

AdrianC wrote: »

I have absolutely no idea what they'd be like to live next door to, because all I know about them is a totally irrelevant detail about their laundry arrangements.

Really? You don't think the line below I quoted in my previous post gives an idea as to what they'd be like to live next door to?:

Nifer wrote: »

She is not the sort of person I would befriend being that she occasionally likes to sit smoking weed on her front doorstep while her young kid runs around, telling her she is ‘doing her f#!%ing head in’

Yellow_mango

I have absolutely no idea what they'd be like to live next door to, because all I know about them is a totally irrelevant detail about their laundry arrangements.

There’s clearly some secret social code to which we are not privy under which one’s laundry arrangements are clear foolproof predictors of other behaviours!

AdrianC

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

Really? You don't think the line below I quoted in my previous post gives an idea as to what they'd be like to live next door to?:

So you're stating as a fact that there's some kind of predictable correlation?

NaughtiusMaximus

AdrianC wrote: »

So you're stating as a fact that there's some kind of predictable correlation?

Based on my experience of living in areas blighted by a scummy minority (back in the days when I couldn't afford to be picky), yes there is a correlation.

In my experience the real nightmare neighbours combine two personality traits:

• Selfishness/lack of consideration for others
• A complete disregard for what other people may think of them

The behaviour of people who only exhibit the first of the two traits is mitigated to some degree by their concern about what others may think of them, put both traits together and you have trouble. The condition of a person's home is a very good indicator of the presence of the second trait.

Yes there are of course people who don't give a damn about what other people think of them and also happen to be very nice people, but when it comes to choosing a home I prefer to play it safe.

Crashy_Time

https://www.todaysconveyancer.co.uk/main-news/uk-property-transactions-fall-third/

Wonder how much is to do with "selfish" neighbours?

Kim_kim

gettingtheresometime wrote: »

It's quite common around my area, especially as the council wont collect recycling from the back of the houses unlike the general rubbish, where they will (I don't understand that logic either).

I've seen it in areas of London where they have multiple bins as well.

I have tbh and admit our front garden is probably the most unkept front in the whole street but that didn't stop next door being sold within a fortnight of being put on the market.

I had a fence and gate added to secure the back of my garden.
I had it done right near the front.
If I was doing it again, I’d go back 8 foot and leave an area for the various bins to the side of the house.
But I didn’t think and now they are at the side of my garden.

markin

Kim_kim wrote: »

I had a fence and gate added to secure the back of my garden.
I had it done right near the front.
If I was doing it again, I’d go back 8 foot and leave an area for the various bins to the side of the house.
But I didn’t think and now they are at the side of my garden.

Setting it back gives a place to hide and to use the bins to jump over, A good padlock would stop them opening the gate from the inside but once in the house they can just use the front door to leave.


The bins should be hidden behind the gate your letting the street down.... lol

Kim_kim

markin wrote: »

The bins should be hidden behind the gate your letting the street down.... lol

It’s not a problem, so are most of my neighbours.

getmore4less

davidmcn wrote: »

Please show your working.

pick a town any town
zoom in on google maps to find a residential street
streetview it.

I picked somewhere Sandys Rd Basingstoke



try another one Cumberland St Warrington



the terraces have no bins out front(just parking) because they have a back alley a bin lorry can get down


have a go.

I notice a lot of properties that come up on here for comment have bins at the front of houses when you street view the areas.