House for sale now our neighbour has become obsessive

MoneySeeker1

Sounds like you need to tell your EA to "grow a pair" in some language or other and to stonewall this neighbour and totally ignore him. That instruction to include ".....and, if you continue to engage with him then I will have no option but to find another EA that won't do so". The EA is making a rod for their own back basically and I don't understand why they are listening to anyone other than the seller (ie yourselves). If you were doing something wrong (eg lying about some structural issue to do with the house) that would be one thing, but it doesn't sound like you are doing anything like that and are just trying to sell a normal house in a normal way.

If need be, then I'm guessing it might be possible to take out an injunction for harassment against this neighbour? Might be worth investigating the possibility and then verbally talking to the neighbour (if this is possible) and ask them whether they want something like that "on their record".

Skiddaw1

Yes, I think keeping a very low profile. leaving it to the EA and hoping for a buyer soon is probably the only realistic tactic unless he ups the anti to the point where OP is forced to take action.

Markb89

OP here, 
Just an update that after some internal stuff at the EA and attempts from them to talk to the neighbour, they're happy that their !!!!!! are covered and have reverted the ad. I believe I'm now good with the EA and they're going to tell him to jog on.

Now just a waiting game to see if the neighbour gets over it on or not.

The whole situation is just very peculiar and I can't get my head around his intentions - the moment he started playing up we decided there is no offer he could make to us that we would accept. I can't rationalise how he could think we'd at any point run back to him. Bewilderment...

zagubov

OP don't get involved in this by taking out an injunction- your deniability regarding disputes will go out the window if you do that.

jimbog

If you have a For Sale sign up take it down but continue for it to be marketed 

diggingdude

If a nightmare buyer turns up sell to them, that's the best way to get back at the neighbour 

Davesnave

diggingdude said:

If a nightmare buyer turns up sell to them, that's the best way to get back at the neighbour 

OP might have other neighbours, though. And how does one spot a nightmare neighbour? There's one living along the lane from me, but from my perspective they look 'normal.' The most innocuous looking people can transform into the spawn of the devil when safely inside their own  red boundary line (although they'll probably try to move that!)

markin

jimbog said:

If you have a For Sale sign up take it down but continue for it to be marketed 

The web advert would have to vanish for 3 days or he will see through it, or he may keep a watch out anyway making it pointless.

MoneySeeker1

Markb89 said:

The whole situation is just very peculiar and I can't get my head around his intentions - the moment he started playing up we decided there is no offer he could make to us that we would accept. I can't rationalise how he could think we'd at any point run back to him. Bewilderment...

I'm guessing this neighbour doesn't know the reason you are selling your house and thinks you might be desperate to sell it for some reason and, if that were the case, would take whatever price you could get for it. There are people that desperate. Many of us sell because we have the wish for a better house or house in better location or something and we can afford to hold out for the proper price for the place. However, there are ones who MUST sell (even if they don't get the proper price in the process). You could be a Desperate Seller for all the neighbour knows.

A Desperate Seller would probably eventually take whatever stupidly low price the neighbour cares to pay for the place and then either sell it on for a profit or re-sell it to a friend/relative of theirs or something and they'd make a profit from doing so (ie your lost house equity they'd grabbed from you by paying an unfairly low price).

So there is a logic in it and it sounds like it would be a good idea to try and find a way to get the message over to neighbour that you aren't a Desperate Seller and are selling because you've chosen to (assuming that is the case).

csgohan4

MoneySeeker1 said:

Markb89 said:

The whole situation is just very peculiar and I can't get my head around his intentions - the moment he started playing up we decided there is no offer he could make to us that we would accept. I can't rationalise how he could think we'd at any point run back to him. Bewilderment...

I'm guessing this neighbour doesn't know the reason you are selling your house and thinks you might be desperate to sell it for some reason and, if that were the case, would take whatever price you could get for it. There are people that desperate. Many of us sell because we have the wish for a better house or house in better location or something and we can afford to hold out for the proper price for the place. However, there are ones who MUST sell (even if they don't get the proper price in the process). You could be a Desperate Seller for all the neighbour knows.

A Desperate Seller would probably eventually take whatever stupidly low price the neighbour cares to pay for the place and then either sell it on for a profit or re-sell it to a friend/relative of theirs or something and they'd make a profit from doing so (ie your lost house equity they'd grabbed from you by paying an unfairly low price).

So there is a logic in it and it sounds like it would be a good idea to try and find a way to get the message over to neighbour that you aren't a Desperate Seller and are selling because you've chosen to (assuming that is the case).

then there are desperate buyers who try and get bargains and not pay market value and won't accept no for an answer. 

If the seller was desperate, they would have accepted the neighbors offer already, you would have thought they would have got the hint