Advice on Selling

GardeningFan30

Hello, 

I was hoping to seek some advice and opinions. We are currently in our first home, we moved it over a year ago. It’s a nice residential area with quite a few young families and our house is a good size for the money paid, it has tonnes of storage good size rooms, parking , near good schools and we’ve redone the kitchen . We are attached to a rented property.  Back at the beginning of lockdown we had Problems with the rented house making noise in the night , banging and yelling at each other (teenager and mother) and waking my partner , we were still working and it was leaving him without sleep most nights (8 out of 10 nights) . Though it did not wake me as I grew up living next to a railway line! The teenager was also having large groups of friends round (making noise ,leaving rubbish, excessively revving vehicle’s, looking over our fence, using shared drives as a bike park) and due to the layout of our property they were always around the back, side and front of our house and actually damaged our property. There were no problems before this. We tried to resolve this with the tenants but they claimed to be making no noise in the night and said they would speak to the teenagers but nothing changed so we approached their letting agent who told us they would write a letter to them but that we should to go to the council and police.  I’m happy to say both problems stopped and we have had months of no problems . Unfortunately even though it over it’s left us on edge and we know it’s unlikely to ever happen again (the situation at the time being something none of us had ever experienced before) but we don’t feel at home in our house now (it’s spoilt out first home experience) and  as there is no stamp duty and we want a bigger garden and we’ve seen our dream house ,we decided we would go on the market . We obviously know we must declare this on the SPIF but I just wanted to gauge how people would feel about this if they loved and wanted to buy our house? I’m just trying to brace myself for reactions. Thank you in advance! 

Secretsusie

I'd be cautious but if I really loved the house and if the issue is truly resolved then it may resolve my concerns. 

GardeningFan30

Thanks @Secretsusie ! That’s good to hear! Yes it’s gone back to the way it used to be (with the exception the neighbours won’t talk to us now) we just hear some noise from them walking around and closing doors in the day , and children playing which is usual in a semi. I feel like we did the right thing resolving the problems and stopping them as I couldn't have felt comfortable selling the property to someone back when we had the problems but I’m just afraid people won’t view it that way.