Nightmare neighbour rents a help to buy

JimmyPotts

theartfullodger said:

Who do you wish these esteemed neighbours to go and live next to, and have you explained this to the lucky family?

Anyone but me, lol.
I have told them numerous times. They don’t give a flying duck 🦆 

it’s a rogue landlord issue. 

elsien

JimmyPotts said:

theartfullodger said:

Who do you wish these esteemed neighbours to go and live next to, and have you explained this to the lucky family?

Anyone but me, lol.
I have told them numerous times. They don’t give a flying duck 🦆 

it’s a rogue landlord issue. 

Why is it? It’s not the landlord’s job to police their tenant’s behaviour. 

 Having said that, what is the problem with the tenants? Because if their behaviour might be damaging the property or be causing the landlord any potential financial impact then they may be more willing to address it. Although if the tenants are keeping the property in good nick and paying the rent, then that may be all they are interested in. 

 Have you contacted the landlord directly at all?  

GDB2222

As a landlord, I can provide some insight, perhaps. We rent out a flat above my old office, and the neighbour is incredibly sensitive to noise. He complains about most of the tenants we have, and they can’t all be dreadful! 

Anyway, when he complains, I do take notice, and I ask the tenants to make less noise. That is about all I can do, as there are no grounds for eviction. 

One tenant was particularly vexatious for the neighbour, because the tenant scolded her child loudly and often. Anyway, the neighbour reported this to social services as a child safety issue, and the tenant moved rapidly to another borough to avert an SS investigation, even though she was probably doing nothing wrong. 

I mention this in case it might help you, although I don’t advocate making a deliberately false accusation to the SS. 

TripleH

Noone wants the investigative branch of the SS over...

In my experience if the tenant's pay their rent on time and don't report  too many issues, I don't think the landlord will be too incentivised to do much. We had neighbours who managed to drive out every other flat but one (on a corridor of 12 flats) with many empty for months in a commercial built to rent property and the letting team wouldn't take action because it was more hassle to remove the trouble tenants for smoking weed than everyone else who upped and moved on.

jj_43

You need a detached property.

SilasMarner

jj_43 said:

You need a detached property.

Maybe. I live in a large detached box on an estate of large detached boxes. Everything from music and Whine on the patio to barking dogs to anything that a good DIY shop can sell with a plug and motor. I'd mention squealing kids and footballs but guess that's politically incorrect. It's a lottery. Good luck to the O.P.

elsien

jj_43 said:

You need a detached property.

Because we can of course all afford one of those.

NameUnavailable

Fight fire with fire! Make more noise than they do, especially at times when they're quite (i.e. if they stay up late playing music loudly, they probably like to sleep in peace at 8am, so pump up the volume then!). Start learning to play the trumpet, or drums. Get a karaoke machine, especially if you can't sing.

They might just get the message?

MikeJXE

NameUnavailable said:

Fight fire with fire! Make more noise than they do, especially at times when they're quite (i.e. if they stay up late playing music loudly, they probably like to sleep in peace at 8am, so pump up the volume then!). Start learning to play the trumpet, or drums. Get a karaoke machine, especially if you can't sing.

They might just get the message?

Best idea yet, Karma 

MultiFuelBurner

JimmyPotts said:

theartfullodger said:

Who do you wish these esteemed neighbours to go and live next to, and have you explained this to the lucky family?

Anyone but me, lol.
I have told them numerous times. They don’t give a flying duck 🦆 

it’s a rogue landlord issue. 

Hello,

You appear to be directing your frustration at the wrong person. The person making the noise is the person(s) currently living there.

You need to forget your landlord frustration and use it all in noting down dates and times and noise nuisance. Contact your local authority and start the ball moving. It will take many months and even then local authorities are very limp wristed in this regard.