Feeling uneasy about potential neighbours - pull out?

mashmash90

MultiFuelBurner said:

I would suggest it's right to consider pulling out but after 5 months you will be popular lol.

Within the first two weeks of having an offer accepted we are around at different times of day checking the house out so to leave it this long🤔

However do what is right for you.

We did check it out a couple of times after offer was accepted but honestly we assumed they were renovating given all the paint cans and equipment and bricks on the road. None of these have moved since. Sadly we don't have time to frequently visit the property to check for updates as we don't live that close. I'd rather be unpopular than end up looking at that eye sore on a daily basis... Also we only just had confirmation that their side of the chain was complete so it's not like we have been the ones messing around up to now anyway!

lookstraightahead

You can have quiet people who just don't use their gardens, and you can have people whose gardens are pristine but make one heck of a noise (and are usually outside more).
I don't think being terraced makes a difference re garden noise, most houses join gardens somewhere and it's luck of the draw.
however it's not nice to look at. I let my old huge back garden grow up to my shoulders one time when I was going through a really bad spell (when my husband left me). It took a couple of days to sort it.
so there could be lots of reasons and it's probably a day's work.

but if it doesn't feel right, don't do it. 

MultiFuelBurner

Its definitely the right thing for you to for yourself if anything bothers you pull out. That's the beauty of the UK system no consequences.

I do wonder what the cost is to others in the chain. 

Dustyevsky

mashmash90 said:

MultiFuelBurner said:

I would suggest it's right to consider pulling out but after 5 months you will be popular lol.

Within the first two weeks of having an offer accepted we are around at different times of day checking the house out so to leave it this long🤔

However do what is right for you.

. I'd rather be unpopular than end up looking at that eye sore on a daily basis...

Then you have answered your own question, no doubt assisted by those here saying they'd walk.

It's legitimate to come here and treat answers as a straw poll where decision making seems very tough. Done it myself.

Sea_Shell

If its empty, maybe it's tied up in contentious probate, like a property round the corner from us, that is literally falling apart.  It was already in a pretty poor state when the elderly owner was alive.

It was then empty for about 3 years, before recently coming to the market and being sold.    

It's a 'dooer upper' that's for sure.  

FindMyWayBack

Wouldn't entertain it

Dustyevsky

Sea_Shell said:

If its empty, maybe it's tied up in contentious probate, like a property round the corner from us, that is literally falling apart.  It was already in a pretty poor state when the elderly owner was alive.

It was then empty for about 3 years, before recently coming to the market and being sold.    

It's a 'dooer upper' that's for sure.  

Much also depends on the area and whether it's going up or down in socio-economic terms. Houses and plots don't tend to stay empty or undeveloped for more than a few years when gentrification's in progress

elsien

Sea_Shell said:

If its empty, maybe it's tied up in contentious probate, like a property round the corner from us, that is literally falling apart.  It was already in a pretty poor state when the elderly owner was alive.

It was then empty for about 3 years, before recently coming to the market and being sold.    

It's a 'dooer upper' that's for sure.  

That's another thought - I worked with lady who lost capacity and couldn't return home. Took two and a half years for the relevant professionals to be prodded into making an application to the CoP and for a deputyship to be granted.  It's all speculation but the OP does need to see what information they can get as to what (if anything) is happening.

london21

Can do some more digging, ask the seller for more context.

If you do not feel comfortable, until exchange can pull out but maybe sooner rather than later.  

gettingtheresometime

Ok I was (am?) your potential new neighbour.

Hubby & I never had the time to do our front (or back!) garden and as a result they become a little of a rewilding site....I'd often joke that I was surprised that the neighbours didn't club together and employ a gardener for us.

We eventually become friends with a new neighbour who moved in years after us and she admitted that she was a little concerned as to what we were like (given the state of the garden) but was assured by another neighbour that we were lovely people.

In the pandemic we finally had time to sort the gardens out but in October 2021 my husband died suddenly and tbh I have had no interest in the gardens so whilst not as bad as they were, they are not 'picture perfect'.

What I'm trying to say is that they may be lovely they maybe not but only doing a little investigative work will give you that information