Should I report my neighbour once we've moved?

MarkIsHere44

We live in a terraced house and have had issues with the neighbours ever since they moved in. We'd literally just signed a new contract as they were moving in which we regretted shortly after BUT finally after 12 months we are moving out in two weeks and we can't wait!! The problem is we feel sorry for our other neighbours we are leaving behind to put up with him (as well as whoever rents this house after us!) We therefore can't decide if finally we should report it, without fear of what he may do to our car or similar!

So the couple next door will constantly slam doors at all hours of the day and night, and by constantly I don't mean ten times a day, I'm talking ten times an hour if not more, only stopping when they go to bed in the early morning! To give you an example, they will take a bag of rubbish out to the dustbin, they will slam the front door on the way out and then slam it as they come back in... Then they will decide to take the recycling out as well, again slamming the door on the way out and way back in. Why couldn't they leave the door open for the grand total of 30 seconds? Oh wait, then 5 minutes later they will decide they missed a wrapper and need to go out to the bin again!

If someone in the street has a car engine running, is mowing the lawn etc and they have a window open, they will slam it as loud as possible to show their annoyance at the people making the noise!

They do DIY as early as 6AM, in a house they shouldn't be doing DIY in as it's rented! They play loud music, sometimes from 7AM in the morning until 1AM the next morning. They hoover really early every day of the week and constantly bang around whilst doing so. They have REALLY loud conversations, usually with lots of profanity used.

Since lockdown, the noises I've been hearing have been getting weirder! I recently discovered what a constant source of "bang, bang, bang, arghhhhh, bang, bang, bang arghhhhhh" was ... At first I thought they were having some crazy sex or something but no, 3 times a week usually multiple times a day, they do star jumps in the living room! All you can hear is CONSTANT banging as their feet hit the ground and him shouting "ARGHHHH" as he hits the pain barrier or something. This goes on for about 2 hours, sometimes as late as midnight!

Sometimes when they go upstairs they will deliberately stomp up them (they do NOT have kids although they themselves act like kids) ... You can tell it's deliberate as you can also just about hear them go up when they aren't stomping so we've come to know the difference!

It's not just us that hear these noises, our other neighbours have commented on it as well. None of us are the confronting type however, especially with how unstable the guy seems!

The real kicker though is if WE make any noise. If we do the hoovering in our house, even at a sensible time, we are then screwed for the rest of the day as they will then make even MORE noise than usual! They will make the stomping I mentioned earlier sound more like it came from a mouse! They will stomp around sooooo violently that you can hear the glasses in the cupboard rattle against eachother through the vibration (you can hear them outside when sat in the car with the windows up!) We are NOT using an industrial thing, we are using a Henry hoover on the low power setting! If we wash clothes, we have to let them spin at 400RPM. We can just about hear their washing machine spinning at its fastest speed, but if they hear ours we have to endure another day of CONSTANT noise!

As well as the aforementioned stomping if they hear our vacuum or washing machine, they will slam the front door so loud that neighbours across the road can hear it! All because, we have decided to use the vacuum cleaner for 5 minutes at a reasonable time (usually early afternoon) ... It's just so pathetic, if we have to cough we have to go into the bathroom to do it is at puts two walls between them and us rather than just the one. If we don't and they hear is, we have to endure "thumping" music even louder than normal.

We've had to buy a second vacuum cleaner for our house, everytime we hear their front door slam, we look through the window. If it is both of them going out, my husband uses one vacuum upstairs and I use one downstairs as fast as we can before they come back!

They throw rubbish into our garden, onto our driveway, onto our car, throw cigarette butts onto all the aforementioned too! At first we thought it was the wind just blowing stuff around the street but no, we've found stuff with their names and address on it!

I would have reported them sooner but like I said, I'm not the confronting type and I don't fancy going outside to find Mercedes has been attacked! If you'd been in our situation for 18 months would you report him once you've moved or just let it go? Oh, and if anyone wants to move next to this delightful couple, PM me and I'll give you my landlords number 😂

kazwookie

As you are moving in 2 weeks, get packed up and leave, forget about them, move on with your life, good luck in your new home

TELLIT01

Nobody is likely to take any notice of a complaint lodged after you have left the property.  It's up to those directly affected by the issues to report them either to their landlord, or the local authority if the problems fall within their remit.

MovingForwards

I was in that situation, only worse, for about the same amount of time. I debated pre-warning the letting agency that no tenant will stick around long, unless they are of the same ilk. Didn't bother in the end and settled into my nice, quiet home and put it behind me.

RelievedSheff

Just leave and don't worry about them any more. Hopefully your paths will never cross again.

And enjoy the sense of relief when you walk into your new house. I know we did when we finally left behind our nightmare neighbours.

avoidtheupsidedownbottles

I had to move away from antisocial neighbours a couple of years ago after two+ years of sleepless nights, abuse and stolen parcels.  Still have thoughts of returning incognito to cause some manner of deep inconvenience to them . . 

DOH_a

You could always let your managing agents know although I’m not sure what they may do about it... if anything as the quicker they can get new tenants in, the better.

Is it different for those who sell their houses that they’re asked by the agent, solicitor or somebody similar if there are any known issues with the property, site or neighbours including disputes?

Novice_investor101

I used to have lovely neighbours, who sold up last December to move to a bigger house. The new occupants is just like living next door to the Battersbys from Coronation St! All they do is shout at each other, it seems to be how they hold a conversation. 

I feel especially sorry for their young children, they are not very nice to them. 

It’s also funny when the mother screams down the garden for the kids to play quietly because the neighbours are “out on their backs”. 

Luckily, that’s as bad as they seem & it’s not intolerable, but I have started playing music indoors & in the garden to drown their noise out. 

I’ve finally decided I’ll be installing a 6ft fence between our gardens as the waist height wall just doesn’t cut it anymore. 

Shame it’ll block most of their sun....

RelievedSheff

DOH.a said:

You could always let your managing agents know although I’m not sure what they may do about it... if anything as the quicker they can get new tenants in, the better.

Is it different for those who sell their houses that they’re asked by the agent, solicitor or somebody similar if there are any known issues with the property, site or neighbours including disputes?

Yes, you have to fill out a form when selling a house which discloses to the buyers if there have been any disputes with the neighbours or are any known problems with the property. They should be filled in honestly by the sellers, but some certainly are not.

After we moved into our previous house we discovered there had been neighbour problems with were not disclosed. The same neighbours caused us 12 years of living hell. We did feel sorry for the young couple who bought the house from the developers we part exchanged it with and don't know if they disclosed the problems we had with the neighbours or not. But on the side we did tell them we had issues with them!