Noisy Neighbours driving me mad!

Forwandert

We used to have a great neighbour whoever would invite friends round every Fri/Sat night, pop the karaoke on till usually around 3/4am, you could hear it word for word and they only seemed to sing probably a dozen songs.

It would stop for half and hour or so and then just as you started dozing off they would start again through the same songs. Between that and the 10,000 litre framed swimming pool for the kids that they had next to the house and would drain by pulling the plug every few weeks completely flooding our lower garden, It really put a bench mark for us on noisy and inconsiderate neighbours. Luckily ours was rented so we just moved. 

babyblade41

Noise happens wherever.. we live very rurally up an old bridleway. Only 3 houses around with a combined acreage between 3 of us of over 30 acres.

Fields opposite there is a livery which has a couple of donkeys, they go hell for leather at dawn, think of a cockerel on steroids, then at this time of year Muntjacs are mating so you get howling late until the evening, then foxes come for tea and then after that its the bloody Owl who insists calling his mate on the top of our barn... don't even get me started on smells 

It's generally called life and I wouldn't have it any other way , just choose the noise you want

comeandgo

MRP63 said:

Ms_Chocaholic said:

Sorry to state the obvious but did you not notice when you were viewing?

I visited on a weekend morning, it was lovely and quiet..

Is it still lovely and quiet on weekend mornings?  They can’t possibly be making noise all the time but I do understand that it can be a bit of torture just the waiting for the next episode.  The answer is in your hands though, you just move.

Noneforit999

Our neighbours went from an elderly couple to two 30 somethings with a 3 year old, such is life. We are not purposefully loud but I bet its a darn sight louder than it was before we bought the house. On the flip side, a house who's garden backs onto ours has two kids who bounce up and down on a trampoline regularly in the summer screaming and shouting most of the time. The guy across the road is having an extension built do most days there is some sort of noise while I am working from home. It is what it is, you can't expect a quiet life. 

There are avenues to complain down but based on the OP description, it sounds like they want to live in the sticks surrounded by countryside which is rarely a reality for most.

SensibleSarah

MRP63 said:

But why should you have to put uo with it? 

These are awful, and only think about themselves, her voice goes through me, and he thinks he is something as well, just attitude all the time..

I put up with it because I see it as just being life in a fairly built-up area. Nothing my neighbours are doing is breaking the law noise-wise (I'll ignore the couple of parties they've had that have gone on until 4am the next day) so as irritating as I find it, it's not something I can actually do anything about. 

I know what you mean about someone's voice going through you though. Next door but one used to be a woman who shrieked at full volume at her kids and partner for about 8 hours a day for seemingly no reason. The noise definitely carried. I was hugely relieved the day that her family moved out. 

housebuyer143

Have you thought of investing in a decent pair of noise cancelling headphones? It's fantastic what they can do now. When an external or internal noise is bothering me I put them on and it's complete silence.

MRP63

SensibleSarah said:

MRP63 said:

But why should you have to put uo with it? 

These are awful, and only think about themselves, her voice goes through me, and he thinks he is something as well, just attitude all the time..

I put up with it because I see it as just being life in a fairly built-up area. Nothing my neighbours are doing is breaking the law noise-wise (I'll ignore the couple of parties they've had that have gone on until 4am the next day) so as irritating as I find it, it's not something I can actually do anything about. 

I know what you mean about someone's voice going through you though. Next door but one used to be a woman who shrieked at full volume at her kids and partner for about 8 hours a day for seemingly no reason. The noise definitely carried. I was hugely relieved the day that her family moved out. 

She is the same, yes they are council, and she lets everyone know about it, they don't talk they all shout and scream, you know that house that every kid visits... yep

Murphybear

Oh dear.

I get the impression that the OP thinks the neighbours are noisy because they are tenants, because they are not private tenants and because there is some assumption that they are on benefits.

I worked in the business for years, had thousands of tenants and hundreds of landlords  in my business and can assure you of one one thing - not all obnoxious neighbours are tenants and being on benefits does not turn people into nasty tenants.

Landlords are not directly responsible for their tenants behaviour.  If the neighbours owned the property would you contact the mortgage company and ask them to evict the neighbours because they were noisy?  Of course not  

The council may or may not be able to do something about your neighbours, different councils have different ways of working, that’s my experience.  

I have been a tenant for many years and had the neighbours from hell next door.  I rented, they owned the house.  So I found somewhere else to live.  The agent, who was a personal friend, had some difficult tenants who were 4 sharers and came home from work at 10/11 pm and went to bed about 2 ish.  I don’t know what the outcome was but couldn’t resist a smile.

One final note, the vast vast majority of tenants are well behaved and do not ruin their neighbour’s lives.  If people are going to misbehave or be obnoxious they will do so.  Their housing situation is not really relevant. 

MRP63

Murphybear said:

Oh dear.

I get the impression that the OP thinks the neighbours are noisy because they are tenants, because they are not private tenants and because there is some assumption that they are on benefits.

I worked in the business for years, had thousands of tenants and hundreds of landlords  in my business and can assure you of one one thing - not all obnoxious neighbours are tenants and being on benefits does not turn people into nasty tenants.

Landlords are not directly responsible for their tenants behaviour.  If the neighbours owned the property would you contact the mortgage company and ask them to evict the neighbours because they were noisy?  Of course not  

The council may or may not be able to do something about your neighbours, different councils have different ways of working, that’s my experience.  

I have been a tenant for many years and had the neighbours from hell next door.  I rented, they owned the house.  So I found somewhere else to live.  The agent, who was a personal friend, had some difficult tenants who were 4 sharers and came home from work at 10/11 pm and went to bed about 2 ish.  I don’t know what the outcome was but couldn’t resist a smile.

One final note, the vast vast majority of tenants are well behaved and do not ruin their neighbour’s lives.  If people are going to misbehave or be obnoxious they will do so.  Their housing situation is not really relevant. 

Well every other person in the road is nice, these who are 'renting' are not nice, every day there is noise in the garden, they play football slamming the ball against my fence..

Titus_Wadd

If the neighbours were to buy a place tomorrow or win the next Omaze house, I suspect they would still act and sound the same.