Neighbours rotary washing line hindering our house sale

AnotherJoe

I dont think its the rotary line as such, its more that it says what sort of a neighbour you'd likely be getting.

And OP hints to this as well She is not really the sort of person I want to get on the wrong side of.

babyblade41

This a bit interesting isn't it ?? so I looked in my area

I don't have neighbours as such but an unadopted track with 3 houses dotted along..all are detached with both rear and front gardens and lo and behold there is a rotary line with ,I hasten to add washing on it..

I'd never noticed it before and wondered why they do it. I don't know the people but from what I've seen they are about mid to late 30's with young children and not tenants , not your typical exhibitionist with X rated underwear on it just towels , shirts etc.

Maybe it's a new millennial trend of showing the world one is not using the dryer

SallyDucati

I think it would put me off if it looked like it was out all the time and not neatly covered, and was the only one on the street. If it is the only option then OK but then would the neighbour be the only one?

Re bins - again for terraces there isn't a choice really. But if there is then I do get annoyed! Especially when my neighbour leaves his bin by my garden fence for days because he can't be bothered to take it in - I live on a corner and he is the other side of me but his garden access is to the back of mine. He can't see it, doesn't have to walk past it every day. I also get the complaints from other neighbours!

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The thing is though, the tenant only has a front garden so if she is going to hang washing out (and maybe her LL is like many LL's on this forum and regards washing clothes indoors as a complete no no and irresponsible/causing damp along with the gallons of water vapour we breath out just existing oopsy etc), it has to be in the front garden.

If I saw someone with a dryer in the front garden, I'd just be glad they were being responsible (using less energy). And stick my nose out of their business lol. Any buyer who walked away from a house they liked, at a price they liked, because a rotary dryer is in the neighbours only (front) garden is not exactly a keen buyer. The OP is not even sure this is why the house hasn't sold. It could be from any one of a number of reasons.

Thank god we don't get many housing communities like they have in the US where they don't allow washing to hang outside at all, or only within certain hours or on certain days. However, I wonder if we aren't far from that kind of community policing from the responses on here. Shame. I like living in a less superficial country.

SnooksNJ

Yellow_mango wrote: »

I’m genuinely confused about what “type” of person would dry their clothes on a rotary airer that would be so offensive to live next to.

Do laundry drying habits really predict unsociable behaviours?

I’m obviously naive to assume that they probably just want to dry their clothes outdoors in an economic and environmentally friendly way. :shrug:

The town I grew up in it's illegal to hang clothes outside on a clothesline. As an adult I moved to an area with loads of ticks and they crawled into your laundry. Ultimately I didn't want to be a host for this horrible looking thing engorging itself on my blood and get Lyme disease so I used a dryer.

macman

Is her birthday coming up? If so, buy her a tumble drier.

AdrianC

SnooksNJ wrote: »

The town I grew up in it's illegal to hang clothes outside on a clothesline.

You what? Where was this ridiculous control-freakery...?

As an adult I moved to an area with loads of ticks and they crawled into your laundry.

That sounds like an absolute urban myth. If it isn't, then it's certainly not applicable to anywhere in this country.

SallyDucati

AdrianC wrote: »

You what? Where was this ridiculous control-freakery...?



That sounds like an absolute urban myth. If it isn't, then it's certainly not applicable to anywhere in this country.

From the user name having a guess at New Jersey USofA!! I have heard of some states having that law, no idea why.

davidmcn

AdrianC wrote: »

You what? Where was this ridiculous control-freakery...?

That sounds like an absolute urban myth. If it isn't, then it's certainly not applicable to anywhere in this country.

I think the "NJ" in Snooks' username is a clue...

need_an_answer

Nifer wrote: »

Wondering if people could advise me as to what they would do in my situation;

. What can we do? She is not really the sort of person I want to get on the wrong side of.

Is the issue really the washing line or does this run deeper to the OP not actually liking the neighbour?

I put my washing out this morning (on my rotary line in the back garden) we are overlooked on most sides so its out there for all to see!!!

It will come in when its dry in a few hours,job done....I think I get on with the neighbours in the vicinity and to the best of my knowledge houses sell well round here.
I probably wash twice a week,so the majority of the time the line is not full but it is folded,with the pegs in situ and not covered....
I do have a tumble drier but can probably count the number of times its been used on one hand since we bought it


Bins are collected from the fonts of our properties an most tend to keep them in their front gardens along with at least 2 recycling boxes....

I guess we function like many millions of households all over the country...the difference perhaps being that we get on with our neighbours whereas perhaps the OP has rather than engaging with the neighbours has chosen to form their own opinion of them based on a washing line in the front garden.




The OP's dislike runs far deeper than a rotary washing line in my opinion.

I can think of many things that would be far more offputting than a rotary full of clothes in the front garden....a patio table and chairs with a permanently smoking adult sat there swearing springs to mind...but unless they are running some sort of Chinese laundry from the property there cant be washing there 24/7 for 365 days of the year!

If the OP hasn't sold their property within the first 6 months of it being on the market then realistically their expectation on the price they want to achieve is wrong...in the words of our dear friend crashy,reduce the price by £5k and suddenly I doubt the washing line will be an issue in the slightest.


OP...I understand you may not want to post a link that's fine,but what feedback about the property have you actually had from those that have viewed?