Why i HATE renters, another rant!

Durban

Maybe the owner of the house will get sick of constantly having to change tenants. Although they’re abroad , it’s still hassle for them and eating into their profit everytime they have to find a new tenant.

They might decide to sell the house , or even better , return to the country and want to live back in their house and find it’s trashed by the people they haven’t vetted properly and let live there

lookstraightahead

Nothing to do with single parenting (wonder where the other parent is?), or renting. Some people are just inconsiderate and unaware. You could very easily have the same problem with mortgaged parents and their kids. I would say try to understand this first before using such an unjust title.

Comms69

lookstraightahead wrote: »

Nothing to do with single parenting (wonder where the other parent is?), or renting. Some people are just inconsiderate and unaware. You could very easily have the same problem with mortgaged parents and their kids. I would say try to understand this first before using such an unjust title.

Well living elsewhere I assume

Crumble2018

knightstyle wrote: »

When did it all go wrong and are there ANY decent renters?

Yes there are. We have rented for 3 years - not through choice. But we NEVER play loud music, run our washing machine late at night, or do anything to create any kind of noise or nuisance. In fact one of our neighbours was disappointed to hear we were moving as he would "miss having good neighbours".

However, you do have my sympathies - our upstairs neighbours, whilst not a nightmare, are not very considerate about noise, and it drives me mad. I would be miserable living next door to the neighbours you describe. But I don't think this behaviour is exclusive to renters - there are plenty of homeowners who are selfish idiots with no thought to anyone else - this sense of "I can do whatever I like" is rife these days sadly.

ruperts

diggingdude wrote: »

Multiple generations of liberals who didn't believe in discipline. This is the result

Struggling single parents and their children being described as "feral" and discussed as though they are a different species by an older generation arrogant and pompous enough to think that their neighbours should do their gardening for them for free. This is the result.

The children sound vulnerable and the family as a whole sounds like it needs support, not to be moaned about and insulted by entitled baby boomers who think the whole world should bend to their will.

On a more positive note, there are several tactics you can employ to make noisy neighbours more tolerable. I won't be spending my time describing them since I don't think the OP deserves it, but they are out there.

KittenChops

diggingdude wrote: »

Multiple generations of liberals who didn't believe in discipline. This is the result

What on earth has someone's political leanings got to do with this??


Or did you mean something else?

oystercatcher

We have renters next door and they are a lovely family, the noise that annoys me comes from the other direction where the young couple who bought the house now have two very noisy small children ! I'm sure my children weren't that noisy but maybe we just weren't aware !

Rents in our road are eye wateringly high though so I think the 'rough and ready' renters move elsewhere in town. When I moved here I chose a slightly smaller house in a better neighbourhood which has paid off, the rents here are £200-300 extra per month than in the rough roads with slightly larger houses. There do seem to be more and more houses here being let out but fortunately no trouble ....so far !

[Deleted User]

I feel for you and its easy for people to criticise when they aren't the ones having to live with it. People will accuse you of being mean to the poor family next door but what they don't consider is how much something like this can affect your mental health.

Have to agree though that its not a renting issue. There are bad neighbours everywhere both renting and home owners. You've just been unlucky.

qwert_yuiop

My neighbour owns his house and he likes chainsawing and playing the electric guitar. (Not at the same time.)

So do I so no one’s complaining.

Davesnave

Taking the emotion out of it, the short answer is to either put up with it and hope for an improvement over time, or sell your property now at the price it's currently worth, whatever that is.

All people who want to move in less than auspicious circumstances have a good motive for doing so. The reasons are unimportant, but we took a financial hit and moved on, rather than waiting to see what happened in the Crash of 2008-9. We just had those 'greedy bankers' to blame, not someone next door, but the effect was similar: 16% loss on the price agreed to a Northern Rock customer in October 2007.

Bottom line: no one can advise adequately here. The ball is in your court, but trying to block the emotion and being as objective as possible was what got us through an horrendous two years of uncertainty, selling and trying to buy again. We made a decision and stuck with it. Was it the best one? Probably not, but things are OK now.