to phone and complain to my neighbours landlord......(sorry its long)

[meerkatsandkookaburras]

we moved in here about 2 yrs ago and there was a family living next door who moved out just over a year ago and decided to rent their house out before they sold it while they decided what to do etc. We didnt hav much to do with them to be honest but they seemed lovely enough people and never caused us any problems, we took parcels in for them a few times and took wheely bins back for each other etc so all amicable just didnt often see each other. well almost a year ago a lady and her fella moved in there - renting off this family who had moved. I got on quite well with this lady and went to weight watchers once a week with her until we both lost interest and i could no longer afford it. from last september this lady has had her brother living with her (20yr old proper boy racer type) as far as i know the landlord knows he is there, she had split with her fella and her brother moved in for company. then in october her cousin also moved in there and she also got back with her fella so now 4 adults living there. we stopped going to weight watchers in october so ive not spoke to her much since though been friendly enough when we have seen each other.
Since september when the brother moved in weve been getting more and more annoyed by him coming home in his car wiht music blaring at 3am, i mentioned this to her a few times in a friendly but annoyed way and got nowhere so kind of hoped for the best that it would stop and just got used to it to be honest. we live in new houses which have a residents parking area behind them with allocated spots, 2 per house, except a little flat thats a few doors up which only has one. her household use 4 spaces all day every day as they hardly work, however with the way the spaces are allocated each houses 2 spaces are one in front of other so you block youself in if that makes sense, the way they are parking is actually taking up 6 spaces because of this. ive mentioned this to her before too to no avail. as a result of this and no longer going to ww ive not made any effort really to speak to her and rarely bump into her anyway so not a problem.
now this last few weeks things have got worse, rubbish is all over this car park area from her brothers car, he has scraped all the side of our car trying to squeeze into a space he clearly couldnt fit into - he has denyed this through her yet his orange paint is all down our car and noone else in the residents car park has an orange car!!! the car is untaxed yet the police wont do anything as its in a private car park and unless we cn call them and then they can catch him on the roads with it they can do nothing. were stuck paying our excess as he wont admit he damaged our car (brand new in october - his is a battered old car with no tax so prob no insurance or mot!!). other neighbours are complaining too about the rubbish in the car park, the noise, and the fact its difficult for anyone else to park in there but they wont listen to anyone and just seem to think they can do what they like!!! now the family who lived next door did say when they moved out that if we had any problems to contact them. we did this a few weeks after they moved as we took in a parcel for them while house was empty but as we have no number for them we contacted them through estate agents they rent house through. so am i being unreasonable to contact them through agents again about these recent problems or does it sound petty?? bearing in mind weve tried to speak to them about it as have other neighbours with no luck and i really do not want my lovely new car scratched again after having had to pay for its repairs myself and i feel they are the type of people that would do it deliberately as since we got police and insurance involved after th damage to our car they have gone out of their way to try and wind us up with the parking, nasty comments etc. we have one car which we park in our space and feel unhappy leaving it there due to this now but only other option is right up the street where we cant see it at all and if they want to maliciously damage it they have more option to be honest there than they do in car park due to visibility etc

sorry its long but could really use opinions please

[Threepwood]

YANBU.

It sounds awful. I'd definitely be complaining and wouldn't stop until something was done about it.

[meerkatsandkookaburras]

thanks for reading all my moan!! i just worry the landlord will think im worrying and moaning over nothing, especially if he comes around and they dont have all the cars there by chance! should add its not a big car park, there are a total of 13 spaces, they use/block use off 6!!

[littlemissfixit]

YANBU you have as much right to live in peace as they do. And if they are noisey, untidy and nastyv then tes i would phone their landlord, and keep a log of all incidents so you can quote exact times and dates if they should require.
I feel for you, i'm in a similar situation myself, my home is a middle flat, 1 upstairs neighbour and 1 downstairs and they are both equally as noisey which is why we're moving!

[meerkatsandkookaburras]

oh no littlemissfixit i couldnt cope with that these are driving me mad enough!!! when are you moving?? come and move next to me!! im worried now ill get just as annoying neighbours next time when these move out!! thankfully other neighbours are lovely so were quite fortunate i guess!!

the lady next door reckons it is not her problem she tells her fella, her cousin and her brother she only gets 2 spaces on in front of other and shes not responsible if any of them hit our car, but tenancy is in her name only she just has them all living with her so surely the landlord will see her as being responsibile for it wont he??

[littlemissfixit]

We cant get out of our lease until may, but as soon as its up we're off! thank the lord , you sound lovely, its a deal! I would think that if the landlord knows they're all living their then technically all of their names should be on the lease, to cover their back, and to keep thing in check with the council. I'll get back to you about whos responsibility it is, i have a great relationship with my landlord so i'll ask them for you! They know everything their is to know about property law, and i have to call them anyways!

[meerkatsandkookaburras]

ha ha were in nottinghamshire in a village full of everyone knows everyone else except on our estate where its not so bad as its pretty new so more people like us have moved here - next door on other side have said they are selling next year so i dread to think what neighbours we will end up with either side!! luckily we rent though so we can get out if necessary i guess!!! well id have thought all their names on tenancy would make sense but i think as only her and the cousin work maybe the boyfriend and brother just stay there and not pay her anything so she wont put them on i dunno, am so pissed off about the lad scratching my new car wiht his stupid orange paint i think its made me more mad about the rest if it iykwim though they are bloody annoying!!

[ben5]

take photos and keep a diary. if need be get the neighbours to sign the diary saying what you have written is correct so then theirs two houses comlaining. good luck

[littlemissfixit]

ah sory i'm in Glasgow, never mind i would imagine they are, there is nothing worse than horrible neighbours! Di you take a picture of the damage? If so i would take it to the agent thats dealing with them and take a picture of their car..worth a try

[MrsVidic]

yanbu call the owners