To wonder how I'll sell my house (neighbours)

Firstly report them for anti social behaviour and keep reporting.
Report the state of the garden .
complain to your local councillors .
We had similar scenerio and they ended up getting evicted .

OP put it up for sale and then see how it goes. Someone from the area might buy it and not be not be bothered about the neighbours (this often happens in my mums estate)

Complain to the council. If they evicted the previous tenants they could surely evict these.

To be honest if I liked the house and it was a good price I wouldn't care.

What stood out to me is the phrase 'they keep themselves to themselves' and thats EXACTLY what I like in a neighbor.

I dont care about their landscaping skills, their career path or such... the only thing that would put me off from what you said is noise (I have young kids who go to bed at 8).

Frankly the best neighbors I have had weren't too far off what you describe (unemployed childless partiers who sat on the step drinking and smoking all day but where always respectful, generous and friendly to us for the whole 3 years we lived there).

The worst neighbor I ever had was a 'successful career & family man' who was an utter sexist psycho control freak, who thought because I'm a little lady he could force me to live under his 'rules' as if I was a child (and you should have heard the way he spoke to his wife & kids, thin walls I could hear it all).

Books covers rarely tell the whole story.

If it's Council / Housing Assoc tenants, can you approach them to see if they would want to buy your half? From a portfolio point of view, owning both halves of a semi makes good sense with regard to maintenance etc.

Are you sure you couldn't do a we buy any house type thing, you won't get top price but you're not going to anyway, have you got any quotes? As said above try in the winter when neighbours won't be so visible and it should go through quickly. Or sell as a potential BTL or as a potential HMO.

BTL has destroyed the area I live in, of course a landlord will buy it and you can escape, I wish I could.

You just have to put it on the market priced to sell. We had this, I spent hours scrubbing the close, painting the external door (that my neighbour kicked in everytime she forgot her keys), powerwashing the garden and laying gravel and making the shared garden look nice. Had to move a neighbours crack pipe and dispose of a few needles in the process. It took 4 months and only had 2 viewings but a young single guy bought it and to be fair it was a beautiful flat before we had kids...the neighbours kept themselves to themselves but didn't want to be taking my DS out to nursery and bumping into neighbours 'clients' on the way out anymore.

This sounds fine in theory, wouldn't work with my neighbours, they cannot speak English and live in a very different way. I have a friend who has horrendous neighbours, they deal drugs, shout and yell til the early hours, burn rubbish regularly. Her polite requests asking them to keep the noise down had just resulted in them making even more noise and they mock her and things are now even worse. Just be aware that some people simply are not reasonable and think that when they are at home they can do exactly as they please and not care about the effect on others. It's worth a try but I hope it doesn't backfire

dont bother with the council my friend complained abut the noise nextdoor to her various times they gave her something to record sound-eventually they turned in down but then started letting their dog shit in the communal garden

nothing was done about that and an extra person was living there who wasnt supposed to be they done bugger all

This is my problem too, the house next to me is a BTL and now an unofficial HMO with at least 10 adults crammed in a two up two down, they make money by collecting and selling scrap, the noise and the mess has nearly caused me to have a breakdown, council are investigating now. The only way I could sell my house is to another BTL landlord and anyway I cannot afford to move to ab better area. I have learnt a very hard lesson as to the extent that problem neighbours can affect your life and you have my sympathy. I think the advice about waiting until the dark nights arrive again is good, at least your neighbours should be inside more. I had a high fence put up, it really makes a difference, the mess is now not visible from my home and that is a small mercy

We are the same situation with our neighbours. I have considered doing this. However, I thought that when you sell, you have to declare any problems with neighbours, including complaints made to landlords, to the seller. Am I incorrect?

This. You catch more flies with honey….

Go next door, be super polite and explain your situation. Offer to pay for a gardener to tidy up their front and back garden, I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t say no to a freebie. Then depending on how reasonable they are - you could ask them if you could let them know when viewings are happening and ask if they could not be in the front garden when viewings take place. If they do it the first time make sure you take round a bottle of wine and hope that they keep it up.
As others have said start getting it marketed at the end of summer ready for autumn/winter.

I had an aunt with awful anti social neighbour's, never thought she'd sell..eventually a buy to rent landlord purchased it at below market price, stating he had ways and means of dealing with people like Aunts neighbour's, and was fairly confident he and his 'business partners' could persuade them to shape up or leave.

You'll sell OP, some investors like the challenge of dealing with this kind of thing if the price is right.

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Forgot part of my post. I asked the neighbours to keep the dog noise down while I did viewings. She shrugged and said nothing she could do (they never walked them). I was fuming. Regardless, the week after, nice as pie, I went around with a bunch of flowers to 'thank them for trying with the dogs the last week, I could hear the difference'. They did make some effort after that - they were just inclined to oppose anything I 'demanded' but being warm worked better. Completely fake as it was.

They can make them clean up they're garden though. It should be part of they're tenancy it is mine. They don't work so no excuse not to.

My DM is looking to do a purchase and then rent it out on a council house near where we live, she’s driven past a lot and I’ve walked/driven through the area a few times to get a feel for the street and houses. Luckily on the whole it seems really nice!

Maybe just try and get the timing right, so put it on the market late autumn so you have a good few months to conclude a sale. It's a long winter we have in the UK so fingers crossed that'll be enough time.

The new EPC rules for landlords are a deathknell for BTL deals. They aren't active yet, but prohibiting letting anything below a C rating is going to bring a lot of BTL property back for sale, Basically, only owner-occupiers are going to be allowed to live in energy sub-standard buildings.

Buy to let

A friend of a friend of mine was trying to sell her council house with nightmare neighbours, various disputes and she hated them including their 3 large dogs!

In the end after having a few viewings where buyers noticed the neighbours she spoke to the mother of the house, explained she really wanted to move, was sorry for all the bad blood in the past but that buyers were being put off and therefore not offering on the house. Miraculously the family upped their game, behaved and kept dogs quieter and even she did same as other poster here, said she was getting garden tidied and did they want theirs doing which they accepted. One of the next families/people who viewed were buying as a BTL anyway but put in an offer. The sickening thing is that the original nightmare family moved a year later anyway!

Please don’t do this OP - it would be really unfair on the people who are looking to buy. They have a right to know what the neighbours are like.

That’s exactly what I was thinking. Do their garden up in September then start marketing so you’ve got till May before they sit out again.