Problem upstairs tenant, shared entrance & harassment

elsien

Aside from the morality of lying to the police about his behaviour, they have no remit whatsoever to get people shifted to other accommodation.

However this chap may have someone monitoring his mental health, so constant reporting to the police or local authority may prod some sort of action.

However it is entirely possible that this person can hold delusions about you but still be perfectly capable of signing a tenancy and managing their own affairs. There doesn’t have to be a social worker or family member involved, and if there was, he still has a lawful tenancy that can’t just be ended on someone else’s say so. Just putting that out there for those who think family contact may be a magic bullet. 

andy444

NameUnavailable said:

The guy in Portsmouth who ended up gunning down a load of his neighbours is a more extreme example of why this policy is so very very wrong.

Sorry to be pedantic but that actually happened further down the coast in Plymouth.

It slightly depends who they are, but maybe the OP could contact their local MP and they might knock on the right doors to get the social care this individual needs. When I briefly worked at a housing association, I found out it sharpened the mind for certain cases when the local MP started messaging to get it resolved.

deannagone

As said before.  Unless the client is at extreme risk (and often not even then), if someone refuses to engage with Social Services, they will make a couple of attempts to contact.., maybe, and then they'll give up.Not even an MP will get them to do anything more.  I do have experience of this.

JuanBallOfWimbledon

OP, I feel for you. We had a very similar neighbour a few years ago, she was a nightmare. We were private tenants and she was council, she seemed ok for the first 10 minutes, then she told us she had to move from her old house as people found out she was an ex spy... from that moment it was a constant stream of inappropriate and bizarre behaviour for 3 long years. She would claim our dog was hers, that he liked her more and she’d try to tempt him over to her house. She’d throw dirty water over our clean laundry when it was hung out, or light fires in a bin burning plastic and rubber so the washing would stink. She would shout abuse at us and bang on our door at all hours of the night, or she’d bang things against the wall all night long. She accused us of taking delivery of her new washing machine & fridge (they were ours, but she must have liked the look of them). Once she even cut down the neighbour’s kids’ swing. There were times she’d be ok, but also times when she had absolutely no grip on reality. Eventually we put up a cheap cctv camera and began reporting every single incident to the police and the council. Eventually, after many months, adult social services became involved and she got help. She moved not long after that, we still sometimes wonder if the help was enough for her. Because as much as we hated her behaviour, we mainly felt very sorry for her. 

My advice would be to get a video doorbell or one of those small wireless cctv cameras, try and keep recording incidents (but only if you can do so safely and preferably covertly), and keep logging incidents with the police. You could try calling adult ss, but I don’t know how that works. Good luck, I know how utterly exhausting and emotionally draining it is to live like this.

gentlecleanser

thank you for all the responses and advice. 

We will continue to record each time it happens and log it on the council website for harassment. I just hope something gets sorted before it gets worse or something happens.... sounds like its going to be a long road and unfortunately we are going to have deal with it  
Next property will be an isolated detached house in the middle of nowhere  

Jenni_D

gentlecleanser said:

Next property will be an isolated detached house in the middle of nowhere  

But what about the nearby psychopathic farmer? 😲😉😁

SameOldRoundabout

I don’t have much advice but you have my sympathy. The last house I rented was a maisonette in a converted house, the downstairs neighbour had serious mental health issues and caused so many problems for us. I would never ever buy a flat in a house because of it. It stressed me out every time I opened the front door. 

All you can do is call the council mental health team really, and just keep contact to a minimum. Being friendly is usually helpful (well it was in my case anyway).