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To think my mum's neighbours are awful human beings

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LilyKiwi · 02/08/2015 19:28

My mum lives in a maisonettes above a flat, she's a single woman approaching her 70s and lives above a couple in their mid 50s. About four times a year I visit with my two year old, we are out most of the day, he goes to bed 7.30pm until 7am, he does normal play at my mum's in the evening, crawling around on hands and knees with cars, Lego, sometimes a bit of dancing to children's music, but no running of jumping off furniture obviously! During him dancing to some kids music at about 6.30pm the man from downstairs came flying up in a rage, hammering on the door and shouting at my mum saying my child has to be quiet, they can't hear their TV and that if it was his grandchild making that noise he'd be giving them a smack amongst other abuse. After he left, my mum then went downstairs to say sorry they found it noisy but he wasn't doing anything anti social, goes to bed early, doesn't visit often but that the house is an old period property that wasn't designed to be flats so noise travels further than it should. She was told to go away and not ruin their evening anymore, they also said they would get in touch with lawyers! The other issue is that they have a house cat which they were letting out of their back door twice a day to basically crap in my mums garden, my mum has been picking this up twice a day for some time but said that in the rain it was just getting impossible and disgusting so has paid to have a fence fitted in her garden to stop this happening, they dug it up and messed with it to try and push their cat out (they have their own front garden and obviously don't want a litter tray) the man from downstairs then aggressively questions the fence saying they have a right to my mum's garden for fire access (factually untrue) got very angry and told her he hopes 'she rots upstairs'. A third incident was when my mother had a very, very severe nose bleed (she has also had a couple of strokes) and paramedics had to be called, they were lovely and attended to her at 9pm, but where wearing slightly muddy boots so mum did a quick Hoover (still very dazed) after they left and the woman flew upstairs to attack her for disturbing them and that she had just got her 9 year old grand child to sleep and how dare my mother Hoover at that time. My mum apologised and explained the situation, that she never normally Hoovers late etc. They are also now taking in her packages when she isn't in and holding them. They rent, she owns, the landlord says he doesn't want to get involved, he is friends with my mum and one of the downstairs neighbours works for the landlord and is a distant relative. Please give my your opinions as I think I'm going to direct the neighbours and the land lord to this post. The property my mum lives in is three bedrooms so it could very easily be a family living above them at all times. Thanks for reading this far!

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Supervet · 02/08/2015 19:52

ha at in touch with their lawyers. That's not how it works. You report noise to the landlord or environmental health, if consistent noise it might get as far as environmental health they might eventually try and record the noise to take action. it would have to be a VERY noisy toddler before 11pm to 7am to make them take action (I.e it's not going to happen)
Same with the hoovering.

Your Mum can talk to a housing advisor at the council even if in private let about housing issues if the landlord is useless.

if they threaten your Mum ring police.
If they harass your Mum ring police.