Noisey neighbour hell...

EssexHebridean

babyblade41 said:

rather an old thread 

Aargh - noted - necroposting is a pain! 

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Lespaul1960 said:

How about marketing the house as a buy to let opportunity ?  The new owner wont care about next door because he or she would not be living there.  Sorry thats about all I can think of right now, but you have my deepest sympathy. Good Luck for the future..

Another great example of why buy to let is ruining this country.

To the OP, this is unfortunately common with British houses so unless you can afford a much better one you might have to live with it.

Murphybear

Mildreds_Earrings said:

Tippytoes said:

Really, really feel for you.  I had neighbours from hell living the other side of the wall for too long.  I look back at how many years of my life were effectively "lost" because of these cretins.  Police/Council will buck pass one to the other resulting in little, if anything, being done to help you.  Sell as fast as you can, by whatever method you can.  

Totally agree with @Tippytoes I have had this experience twice, living next to noisy, inconsiderate tenants who don't care. On both occasions, it was me, the homeowner who had to move. ASB/noise nuisance affects your mental health and wellbeing. You can't relax in your own home and when they're not making noise, you are in anticipation, waiting for them to make noise. Nightmare!

I declared the dispute on the property questionnaire but the Buyer was adamant that he wouldn't experience the same problem and it didn't affect the sale price. In other words, there is always someone bigger and tougher, who will stand up to selfish scum. Yes, you will have to declare the dispute but you still might find a Buyer, who is willing to deal with things in their own way. Life is nothing if you're miserable. Sell up and leave. Find somewhere with better, decent neighbours. All the best. 

We had terrible neighbours who threatened my husband physically when he asked them to turn the music down.  The first time we had complained in 9 years.  It took a lot to scare him.  We were renting, the neighbours owned their house.  Why do people always assume that trouble makers are always tenants and tenants are always troublemakers?  

EssexHebridean

Unfortunately Murphy, because often it IS tenants who are the issue - unfortunately not all tenants are good ones like I presume you are, and sometimes they simply don’t care about either the property itself (because they know the long term costs of repair will fall to someone else) or relations with the neighbours (because they have the luxury of simply being able to move on with minimal costs if they choose). Neither of these are positions that a homeowner benefit from. I suspect that in a lot of cases it’s not so much an assumption as a statement of fact from personal experiences. Of course it can go the other way too - but it’s realistically always going to be less likely because of the financial stake the owner has. 

TripleH

I think the problem is attitudes.

I'm paying rent / bought this house so I can do what I like and have every right to do so.

I guess in rentals when it's up to someone else to sort out the repair work / clean cake off the walls of communal areas it's easier when its not your problem and you ignore that others are inconvenienced.

YoungBlueEyes

Homeowners.... renters.... some people are just 4rse'oles.

We bought this semi in the summer, next door bought theirs a few months before. They are inconsiderate screaming heathen scum, and I was sorry we moved here after about 3 hours. (It may turn into it's own thread, given time.)

Given it's been so long, I wonder what the OP did (if anything)...? 

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TripleH said:

I think the problem is attitudes.

I'm paying rent / bought this house so I can do what I like and have every right to do so.

I guess in rentals when it's up to someone else to sort out the repair work / clean cake off the walls of communal areas it's easier when its not your problem and you ignore that others are inconvenienced.

The problem is terrace houses with inadequate soundproofing, i.e. most of them. Terrible idea, the source of most neighbour/land dispute problems, and impossible to fix without demolishing half the country.

TripleH

Or 'modern trendy apartment blocks'...

I have some 'interesting experiences' living in one and wouldn't hurry back to do so.

EssexHebridean

There is an entire area of our town we refused point blank to look in because it's well known that the houses built there in the past 40 years have all had the paper thin walls issue. 

mi-key

Some houses in the past werent much better. I used to rent a 3 bed semi built in about 1920, and you could hear everything they did next door, even turning on and off llightswitches !