Maliciously stopping sale of house

sheramber

 neighbour demanding I pay legal expenses to get "dispute" off my back,

Legal expenses for what?

kirtondm

Think we are missing somethng here?
Did the neighbour want to buy the property?
Have the got the hump as you marketed it without telling them?
Are they just after some cash?

If the police have been involved and solictiors letters sent it is definetly going to be declerable and didficult to sell now

NameUnavailable

Tell the neighbour as your buyer has pulled out due to their dispute that unless you can resolve things quickly you are going to have to accept an offer you have had from someone who wants to convert it into a HMO to provide bedsits for unfortuate people - recently released prisoners, recovering drug addicts etc.......

Twopints

notdeadinspirit said:

Can a neighbour having made a verbal agreement in 2012,  make no complaint, then  maliciously invent a "dispute" to stop sale of my house?  Over past 4 months I have proved neighbour's claims are FALSE. But neighbour now complaining a few centimetres of gutter overhangs so I still cant remarket my house. And neighbour is stopping any resolution by aggressively refusing access to stop that getting fixed.

What was the agreement and why is it now broken (if it is)?

Mojisola

notdeadinspirit said:

neighbour demanding I pay legal expenses to get "dispute" off my back,

He's refusing access because he doesn't want anything solved - he wants you to get desperate enough to pay him a lump sum.

andy444

There seems to be a lot of backstory that hasn't been disclosed. What does the verbal agreement in 2012 have anything to do with it? Why does the neighbour apparently not want you to move?

TripleH

I think you need to sort your garden out before you sell. Nice bit of fertiliser to envigorate the ground over autumn and winter,  maybexa couple of industrial fans 😉

Mac_70_

notdeadinspirit said:

Can a neighbour having made a verbal agreement in 2012,  make no complaint, then  maliciously invent a "dispute" to stop sale of my house?  Over past 4 months I have proved neighbour's claims are FALSE. But neighbour now complaining a few centimetres of gutter overhangs so I still cant remarket my house. And neighbour is stopping any resolution by aggressively refusing access to stop that getting fixed.

I can prove this is being done spitefully, to hurt me. I can't talk to neighbour - now can't trust a word said, twists facts, is enjoying making me suffer
Any advice please?
What can I do? 

Can you not fix the guttering from your side? If not just get someone to go fix it from his side, then when he refuses excess you have a witness that you tried. Just put it on the market. 

Jeepers_Creepers

It sounds as tho' there are a couple of inches of overhanging gutter, that the neighb declared verbally that he was happy with this some time ago, but is now - for reasons unknown but which are easily to speculate on ('speculate' being the operative word, I guess) - trying to make life intentionally difficult for the OP. If he's asking for the cost of 'legal expenses', it sounds as tho' he's already forked out for his poor advice!

I love the suggestion of dropping the hint that it'll be rented out as a HMO or similar instead. Taking into account the ignorance level of this neighb, perhaps a mention too of the poor Afghan refugees requiring shelter in our country would strike this home even more - I suspect he's 'a bit like that' too.

Exodi

user1977 said:

No legal reason why you can't sell, you just need to find a buyer who doesn't mind that your neighbour appears to be a bit of a nutter.

I don't know about others, but I think bad neighbours would be hands down the number one deterrent to purchasing a property for me.

You can fix leaky guttering, hell you knock down and re-build the whole house if you want, but you can't change your neighbour.

I have watched too many 'nightmare-neighbour'-style programs to entertain that thank you!