Neighbours house is a mess..what can we do?

adr0ck

it was just an idea

probbaly no covenants that might help.......it could possibly have just been used to ask him if you could do some work on his house for him....covenant says you need to keep in blah blah order....just a bartering tool......thats all

cattie

adr0ck wrote: »

he works on the motorways....so hes not exactly poor

Ah, but nobody knows his financial circumstances do they. He could be up to his eyeballs in debt for all we know.

Lots of people earn very good salaries but because of debt repayments have very little spare money to spend on what they feel are unessentials.

adr0ck

cattie wrote: »

Ah, but nobody knows his financial circumstances do they. He could be up to his eyeballs in debt for all we know.

Lots of people earn very good salaries but because of debt repayments have very little spare money to spend on what they feel are unessentials.

true but you could say that about anyone

so no one should ever claim or do anything through the courts

HugoSP

The OP could be living next door to us

Our house is a tip TBH but we have secured planning permission to convert a run down shop facade into a domestic frontage, at the same time creating an extra house. Whilst we're doing this it is being renovated.

Would you believe she only went and objected to our planning application - so she wants it left as is does she?

She was actually worried about parking but it's not a huge issue around here.

As far as the OPs problem is concerned, assuming you are not in a position to buy the neighbour out, I would have a friendly chat with your neighbour, and offer to tidy the garden up and paint the front of the house. You don't need to do a top job on the frontage, just power wash it and then add a coat or two of cheap exterior maisonary paint.

Nicki

It wasn't intended to be a personal attack re adrock's suggestion, but if we take his story at face value, and he bought the property with a friend (presumably expecting to share mortgage payments with the friend) to do up, and the friend has run off with his capital (preventing him from doing the work which is needed), then waving a big stick and demanding that he does the work just isn't going to work, as he hasn't the wherewithal to do it.

As for never suing anyone, each case is different, but people quite often take a commercial view that it isn't worth suing because the offending party couldn't honour the judgment even if they won, or wait until the other party is in a more secure financial position before they issue their proceedings.

gerturdeanna

I'll try and upload a piccie so you can see just what a state it is!! Bear with me though as I'm not very techie!!

kj*daisy

I think there is some planning law provision if a place is ruining the amenity of the area, they can be served a notice to tidy it up. Possibly the situation that another poster referred to that occured in York.

adr0ck

Nicki wrote: »

It wasn't intended to be a personal attack re adrock's suggestion, but if we take his story at face value, and he bought the property with a friend (presumably expecting to share mortgage payments with the friend) to do up, and the friend has run off with his capital (preventing him from doing the work which is needed), then waving a big stick and demanding that he does the work just isn't going to work, as he hasn't the wherewithal to do it.

As for never suing anyone, each case is different, but people quite often take a commercial view that it isn't worth suing because the offending party couldn't honour the judgment even if they won, or wait until the other party is in a more secure financial position before they issue their proceedings.

i agree Nikki

i wouldnt look to go down a court route in this situation at all........just try and persuade the guy to let the op (with maybe some sort of help from the guy....physical or moneywise) to tidy his front up a bit......i wouldn't demand it....just be friendly and see what you can sort out