Dream house 10m from tram line

lookstraightahead

I would rather live next to an HMO that a family with small children, as mine are grown up now but I remember how excitable they were, especially in the garden (trampolines, little cars, footballs, skateboards). Or barking dogs. 

AnotherJoe

Carcy said:

Thanks everyone, we have decided to go back tomorrow and hang around outside the back of the house to listen to trams for a bit. The present owner has lived there ten years so I don’t think the tram bothered them much.

However we have found out as well that the house next door is a 6 bed HMO for young professionals (21-35). Quite possibly the neighbours will be louder than the trams! Although to be fair party people are more likely to be living in the city centre than a shared house in a quiet suburb of north Manchester! 

The tram wouldnt put me off at all. The HMO would.

Nikkilou86

The houses opposite us, the train line runs along the bottom of their gardens although it’s lower than the gardens and they are either slowing down approaching the station or speeding up leaving the station. Pre Covid there were 6x trains an hour in each direction although less at moment. It’s a main commuter line into London. 

The times we notice the trains, the first week or two we lived here we woke up to first train of day, when we’ve been away we notice for a day or two when we get home, the first one or two sunny days when the back doors are open and the new year after they’ve not been running for Christmas. The rest of the time we forget they are there until the very occasional horn blasted. 

it takes hubby 8mins to walk to station and me 12mins as he has long legs!!!

it was very handy when I first went on maternity leave as hubby would text me which train he was on and then I’d listen out 50mins later and as I heard it pull into the station I’d put the kettle on - wasn’t until Covid he twigged how he always came home to a perfectly timed cuppa even when there were delays 🤣🤣

lady1964

What’s the parking at the house you want to buy like? I’d be really put off by an HMO as the house opposite our last house was turned into one for 5-6 people. Parking in our cul de sac became a real problem, there were all sorts of people coming and going at all hours, one tenant was selling cars from the property, one had ‘friends’ revving a car engine late at night, nightmare all round. 

I lived under Heathrow’s flight path for years as a child/teenager, that rarely bothered me but the HMO really did.

Slinky

Another one running away from the HMO. We had one emerge in our street, made people's lives a misery - parking, rubbish, tenants falling out, police helicopter circling overhead one night, I kid you not. In the end the neighbours surrounding it put so much pressure on the landlord, who owns dozens of houses in the area, he kicked them all out and rented it to a single household and life returned to normal.

edgex

If the tramline is at the end of the garden, you can get acoustic fencing.

lady1964

Slinky said:

Another one running away from the HMO. We had one emerge in our street, made people's lives a misery - parking, rubbish, tenants falling out, police helicopter circling overhead one night, I kid you not. In the end the neighbours surrounding it put so much pressure on the landlord, who owns dozens of houses in the area, he kicked them all out and rented it to a single household and life returned to normal.

The rubbish caused by the tenants of the HMO opposite our house was horrendous. Their wheelie bins were on the pavement and I swear they used to just throw their bags from their front door in the general direction of the bins. Consequently the binmen didn’t take it. I and other neighbours had to report this and the council had to arrange for their rubbish mountains to be cleared.