HMO next door Neighbors

RelievedSheff

diystarter7 said:

dani17 said:

diystarter7 said:

OP
The consensus is don't but as you know it is only you two that can decide.
Being "noise sensitive." The house you are buying appears to be of good proportions, have to consider a detached property?
All of our children have a detached place but we don't we live in a EoT.
Trust me, you cant beat a detached place even if you are not "noise sensitive."

Good luck.

We have been thinking about detached houses already. We can afford some in the area but the question has always been : take a detached or a semi-detached with more space ....

Take a detached if its in a location that is acceptable and if it is smaller, you can always add to it at a later date.
Even though I've never lived in a detached property as I said our kids and some of my family have them and you can't beat not hearing next door.

A semi, you will hear people, especially in newer builds best builds are 1930's properties.

Good luck.

Absolutely disagree with that one.

Our last house was a 2 bed 1930's semi and the noise transmission between properties was shocking. You could hear absolutely everything.

Unfortunately due to house prices dropping and being very slow to regain their value we ended up stuck in that house for 13 years. It was the worst 13 years ever.

3 years ago we finally managed to move out and we didn't even consider attached houses. We ended up buying a new build 3 bed detached that is about as detached as you get on a new build estate and has zero over looking to the garden. It was the best move we could have made.

lookstraightahead

user1977 said:

lookstraightahead said:

Martin_the_Unjust said:

Detached every time

Except if you're noise sensitive to barking dogs, lawn mowers, garden parties, hedge strimmers, chickens. 

Ok, house surrounded by vast amounts of your own land then...

Well that doesn't get rid of the lawn mower problem now does it 😁

NorbieG

dani17 said:

Hi,
We are going to buy a semi-detached house that we like so much. Unfortunately, we just learnt that the next door neighbor is HMO ( House with multiple occupations). My wife is a noise-sensitive person and we are thinking about pulling out. Anyone who has a similar experience can advise please?

Thank you all

Don't buy!!  Trust me!  I live next door to one - and your local council may not help you.

I've been living in my property (ex-council) for 30 years peacefully until 8 years ago when my lovely neighbour sold to an HMO.  That's when all hell broke loose to fire doors' noise, laminate flooring noise, and the playing of loud music!!  The noise problems didn't entirely have to do with the tenants - which I found out at a later time.  They had to do with these 1960 ex-council properties being built poorly - not suitable for (hydraulic-spring) fire doors and laminate flooring.

Long story short...  The local council environmental officer covered up all aspects of the loud (impacting) fire doors' noise (that sounded like sonic booms, that vibrated the skinny party wall) and then left me to suffer in my private (ex-council) home.  This caused me to suffer from depression, anxiety, and stress; and eventually, I ended up in the hospital with heart palpitations and a mild stroke - not caused by the noises alone, but also by the negative, biased, and flawed investigation and the way the council environmental team and the Local Government Ombudsman dealt with my complaint.  I was also suicidal until a consultation with my doctor where he also advised me.

user1977

NorbieG said:

dani17 said:

Hi,
We are going to buy a semi-detached house that we like so much. Unfortunately, we just learnt that the next door neighbor is HMO ( House with multiple occupations). My wife is a noise-sensitive person and we are thinking about pulling out. Anyone who has a similar experience can advise please?

Thank you all

Don't buy!!  Trust me!

Why have you dredged up an 18 month old thread? I doubt the OP is still pondering their purchase...

NorbieG

RelievedSheff said:

diystarter7 said:

dani17 said:

diystarter7 said:

OP
The consensus is don't but as you know it is only you two that can decide.
Being "noise sensitive." The house you are buying appears to be of good proportions, have to consider a detached property?
All of our children have a detached place but we don't we live in a EoT.
Trust me, you cant beat a detached place even if you are not "noise sensitive."

Good luck.

We have been thinking about detached houses already. We can afford some in the area but the question has always been : take a detached or a semi-detached with more space ....

Take a detached if its in a location that is acceptable and if it is smaller, you can always add to it at a later date.
Even though I've never lived in a detached property as I said our kids and some of my family have them and you can't beat not hearing next door.

A semi, you will hear people, especially in newer builds best builds are 1930's properties.

Good luck.

Absolutely disagree with that one.

Our last house was a 2 bed 1930's semi and the noise transmission between properties was shocking. You could hear absolutely everything.

Unfortunately due to house prices dropping and being very slow to regain their value we ended up stuck in that house for 13 years. It was the worst 13 years ever.

3 years ago we finally managed to move out and we didn't even consider attached houses. We ended up buying a new build 3 bed detached that is about as detached as you get on a new build estate and has zero over looking to the garden. It was the best move we could have made.

I'm 77 years of age.  For 7 years, I've been in a noise problem situation coming from HMO house fire doors and laminate flooring.  It’s an ex-council property like mine.  The local council did nothing to fix the noise, although I believe it’s their responsibility as they permitted fire doors to be fitted in the HMO property.   However, the council did a biased-bogus, covered-up, flawed noise investigation.  They even tried to blame the noise on unsociable behaviour of the tenants; when in fact, it’s the fault of the poor construction of these ex-council's properties/buildings and the council is to blame.  These properties/buildings with very thin party walls, and no insulation; and the upper half of these houses' outer solid walls are made from Fly Ash and are classified as prefabricated.

I've already ended up in the hospital with heart palpitations, high blood pressure, and suffered a mild stroke, due to the trauma - stress, anxiety, depression, because of the noise and what the council have put me through. I also had suicidal thoughts until when my doctor spoke to me and told me a few home truths about the council.

Recently, I’ve been experiencing the same sort of fire doors [also permitted by the council] and laminate flooring noises coming from two flats [upper and lower] on the other side of me; also ex-council.  But, the council is not doing anything about the noises from the flats, either.

Another problem is that; because of the noise, I'm unable to sell my property to escape them, or even downsize.

sheramber

NorbieG said:

RelievedSheff said:

diystarter7 said:

dani17 said:

diystarter7 said:

OP
The consensus is don't but as you know it is only you two that can decide.
Being "noise sensitive." The house you are buying appears to be of good proportions, have to consider a detached property?
All of our children have a detached place but we don't we live in a EoT.
Trust me, you cant beat a detached place even if you are not "noise sensitive."

Good luck.

We have been thinking about detached houses already. We can afford some in the area but the question has always been : take a detached or a semi-detached with more space ....

Take a detached if its in a location that is acceptable and if it is smaller, you can always add to it at a later date.
Even though I've never lived in a detached property as I said our kids and some of my family have them and you can't beat not hearing next door.

A semi, you will hear people, especially in newer builds best builds are 1930's properties.

Good luck.

Absolutely disagree with that one.

Our last house was a 2 bed 1930's semi and the noise transmission between properties was shocking. You could hear absolutely everything.

Unfortunately due to house prices dropping and being very slow to regain their value we ended up stuck in that house for 13 years. It was the worst 13 years ever.

3 years ago we finally managed to move out and we didn't even consider attached houses. We ended up buying a new build 3 bed detached that is about as detached as you get on a new build estate and has zero over looking to the garden. It was the best move we could have made.

I'm 77 years of age.  For 7 years, I've been in a noise problem situation coming from HMO house fire doors and laminate flooring.  It’s an ex-council property like mine.  The local council did nothing to fix the noise, although I believe it’s their responsibility as they permitted fire doors to be fitted in the HMO property.   However, the council did a biased-bogus, covered-up, flawed noise investigation.  They even tried to blame the noise on unsociable behaviour of the tenants; when in fact, it’s the fault of the poor construction of these ex-council's properties/buildings and the council is to blame.  These properties/buildings with very thin party walls, and no insulation; and the upper half of these houses' outer solid walls are made from Fly Ash and are classified as prefabricated.

I've already ended up in the hospital with heart palpitations, high blood pressure, and suffered a mild stroke, due to the trauma - stress, anxiety, depression, because of the noise and what the council have put me through. I also had suicidal thoughts until when my doctor spoke to me and told me a few home truths about the council.

Recently, I’ve been experiencing the same sort of fire doors [also permitted by the council] and laminate flooring noises coming from two flats [upper and lower] on the other side of me; also ex-council.  But, the council is not doing anything about the noises from the flats, either.

Another problem is that; because of the noise, I'm unable to sell my property to escape them, or even downsize.

The person you are replying to has not logged in for 18 months so I doubt they will see your post.

I expect they have made their decision   a long time ago. whether to buy or not.