Noisy Neighbour

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The "If you can't beat them, join them" scenario sounds exactly what we used to do when I was a student.

About once a month, we used to host a house party. All our neighbours were given plenty of advance notice and very much invited! Whenever a new one moved in, we'd explain the scenario.

Never once had an issue. We even got most of our deposit back. This was in the late 80s / early 90s when smoking was acceptable too and people would smoke inside our house!

Soot2006

Noise disturbance is so subjective. When we sold our old house, a buyer viewing on a weekend as if the noise from the bypass was a noise disturbance to us. I honestly replied that if working from home during the week I could hear it but had got used to it, whereas my husband honestly replied "what bypass? what noise?" because he'd never heard or noticed it.

OP, don't assume your buyers hid anything. They may have been bothered by the parties, they may have joined in the parties, they may simply not really have registered them or noticed/cared. Or, as someone suggested, they might not have heard them at all. I thank my lucky stars every day that my neighbour is quite deaf as my dogs like to bark. She doesn't hear them even though we share a party wall. A new neighbour might be horrified after they buy the house. Who knows ...

Danien

Slinky said:

Danien said:

Squarelight2000 said:

Petriix said:

Have you considered that it's perfectly normal for people to have parties? Every few weeks to every few months sounds pretty typical for a family: birthdays, anniversaries, maybe a bank holiday or whatever. I'd say we have around 6 gatherings a year which sometimes go on into the night. Compared to real problem neighbours I'd say just make your peace with it. 

Yeah I have, it’s the noise from the music all night long which is annoying me

Sounds like my old neighbours, except they virtually lived in the garden most of the year even watched TV out there, did karaoke out there, loud music all until 3-5am multiple times a week including weeknights. We got out as soon as possible. They were a menace and all the neighbours agreed. The guy was violent so too scared to complain - the police were round there all the time. Couldn't use our own garden, even when it was quiet they would make snide comments over the 6 foot fence at our conversation.  Unfortunately the person we bought the house from was best mates with noisy neighbour, so didn't tell us anything.

One of the loudest partying neighbours we had was in her 70's, but luckily it was only a few times a year - just wish she'd have warned us beforehand.

So what did you tell the people buying your house?

We were in negative equity after the financial crisis and had to move urgently due to disability needs so house was repossessed. Sadly the only way out of a terrible situation for us in lots of ways.

Phil4432

You are saying that these parties are regular.

When buying the house, did you check for noise?  If they'd just started when you moved in, that would be bad luck.  But from what you said, the onus was really on you to check the streets at all hours of the day, to make sure the area is suitable for your needs.   

As for suing the sellers, what are you going to sue them for?  If the neighbours partys weren't a problem for them and they didn't complain about them, there was nothing for them to report.

You could go down the council route, but its long and may not result in much.  May even make the issue worse.  And then you are the one who has to declare an issue when selling.

Is the party house a rental?  If so, they may leave fairly soon.

Worse case, you'll have to move.

I had some very quiet neighbours.  Then they got a dog.  Quiet neighbours became very noisy neighbours.  They've moved now, and the area is very quiet again.   

Phil4432

Soot2006 said:

 I thank my lucky stars every day that my neighbour is quite deaf as my dogs like to bark. She doesn't hear them even though we share a party wall. A new neighbour might be horrified after they buy the house. Who knows ...

Would you keep your dogs quiet, if someone asked politely?

Soot2006

Phil4432 said:

Soot2006 said:

 I thank my lucky stars every day that my neighbour is quite deaf as my dogs like to bark. She doesn't hear them even though we share a party wall. A new neighbour might be horrified after they buy the house. Who knows ...

Would you keep your dogs quiet, if someone asked politely?

I do my absolute best to keep my dogs quiet despite having a deaf neighbour, but they react to outside noises and especially to foxes/cats. I don't think they bark much more than other dogs, but I notice it when they bark and am glad that, right now, it doesn't bother anyone. Our next neighbour isn't near enough for it to be a bother and has barky dogs of their own anyway.