Purchased house and found out next door is a children’s home

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Yes, i think the same, this is probably a supported living facility.


I visit such places regularly and will suggest an easygoing approach, here, and try and see that this is their home and will possibly find some of your daily occurrences annoying too !


By easygoing I mean relaxed and friendly because all guns blazing will not yield the desired effect !


The support staff will also be more amenable with a nice approach too.


Living next door to support facilities is not a negative factor, understanding that it's their home and young people will do what young people do......it could be yourselves/ own children/relatives doing things that irritate them.

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Questions like this come up all the time and it appears that now the seller and the estate agents are required to disclose anything that may affect your buying decision at the earliest stage possible.

There was a case recently of an agent being fined a massive amount for not telling a buyer that the sea defences needed replacing or something. Hopefully whoever posted that will come along and explain more.

I tried to look at a property recently and the agents told me 3 times on the phone that it was near a railway line which was already obvious from the photos. I think disclosure rules are changing in favour of the buyers.

Saying that, not sure it leaves you many options to unwind the transaction. Its certainly been done before but youd need to be willing to spend a lot of money in court

diggingdude

I go into these places all the time for work. Most of them are fine. Many staffed 24/7 depending on the set up. These companies don't want trouble with neighbours. I wouldn't want to live by one as I would probs have a work related breakdown, but I would rather live by one of these then the asbo neighbours from hell

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What supported living means depends on whose running it. My son has high functioning autism and he looked at a supported living place run by a private agency. He was quite impressed til he asked a few questions (of staff and people living there) and realised the support part meant someone would pop in, quickly ask if people were ok and then leave, running.

Certainly my experience of 'support' staff is they do as little as possible and clock their hours up as much as they can. Don't use them anymore. Too much of a con.

But I am sure not everyone will have the same story, I probably just live in a bad area where social services let them get away with this kind of thing.

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Wow, completely different to the 12 I go into !

I know supported living as support workers living in and as part of one large family and where the staff are close to their service users like parents or older siblings rather than visitors that pop in and out.

OP, I don't think this will cause serious problems for you, give things time to settle and reassess in a few more months.....