To think that owning your own home doesn't give you the right to be rude and entitled?

Do you have a dropped kerb ? If so start getting the cars towed or ticketed they will soon stop

They just sound like bigots who need to make themselves feel superior somehow - if not home ownership it would be something else.

When we bought our house the next-door neighbours (shared wall) were very outspoken about where they thought we should put our TV, how often they think we should have visitors, etc. Always watching what we're up to and commenting. Truthfully I was surprised when I found out they rent their house. But they're just busybodies. Renting vs owning makes no difference to anything.

No one has any more or less rights in this case irrespective of whether they own outright, pay a mortgage or pay rent and irrespective of who pays the most…..it’s not a competition.

If your neighbour is blocking your drive and in so doing on the land which you rent then point this out to him.

Yet, ironically, HE is the one who is giving cause to the neighbours to want to move away from him!

It's funny how many smug owners will be aghast at renters being antisocial/unpleasant neighbours - yet they then go on to behave exactly as they are assuming that the (usually perfectly decent) renters will!

I once part owned and part rented a property on a scheme, some boys broke a football net in the park at my front garden and I asked them nicely to get their parents.
The mum screamed in my face that was I nothing more than a renter and my sort weren't welcome round here.
Next week we put the house on the market and moved within the year. I was visibly pregnant at the time and I didn't want my child seeing that type of abuse at her front door

There will be parking enforcement with the council. Call them when they block you in again. The ones in our area come within 15 mins. It's probably a bit of an earner for the council. Wouldn't even bother discussing with the neighbour. Owner of the car will get a ticket. We did this on a few occasions with our neighbours. They have been more mindful of how they park their cars since then.

Eh? How does it affect the value of a house - and the surrounding houses - if X owns and lives in it or if X owns it and then Y pays them to live in it instead?

I can understand if it's council/social housing in a place where a few antisocial nightmare families have been placed, who then get a reputation that is grossly unfairly extended to the whole social-housing development/area; but that's very unlikely to be the case with private rentals.

Not really the point of the thread though either way.

I agree that there is no end to the justification of the entitled knob! Nowt to do with reality in the Land Of Meeee

Totally agree with this (and I am a homeowner)

It's revolting that some people think they are better than someone else just because they had to good fortune to get on the housing ladder at the right time

I don't think it is silly, actually; or at least no sillier than the ideas that the homeowner idiots have already begun.

This kind of homeowner (and it isn't the majority of us who happen to have been fortunate enough to get our feet on the property ladder - it's only a minority) usually base their imagined 'superiority' on the 'fact' that they are more prosperous and pay more for and have invested more in their homes and are therefore worthier than somebody who pays a 'little' monthly fee to be allowed to 'bunk' there temporarily.

In fact, there are loads of people (including us) who wouldn't have a hope of being able to afford the much higher market rent for their homes, if they hadn't been lucky enough for things to fall into place in the past so that they now have their names on the title deeds, instead of a landlord owning it.

I'm not saying that it's a conclusive correlation in all cases; just that the kind of people who dedicate their lives to starting petty squabbles and throwing their weight around trying to find any 'reason' to 'prove' that they are somehow better than everybody else - they own and you 'only' rent; they've lived here for 40 years and you've 'only' been here 20 years; they have a fancy expensive new car and you 'only' have an older modest model etc. - are frequently the exact kind who will also go with the same stupid, nasty mindset that they 'must be better than you' because, erm, they happen to have skin that's a different colour from yours.

Maybe he means by it that he doesn’t have the option to move but you do?

@Ponoka7 not the case on my house- the mortgage would be much much higher than the rent. And for anyone buying now in a decent area needing over £250k mortgage I think many would find the same- obviously if interest rates dropped by several percent that's different - our house would be £950k approx to buy - and it's not huge.

Really good advice. If you complain to the council about him, then he would definitely have to declare it if he sold so telling him that might change his entitled attitude.

Ah yes, sorry I thought that was implied by my note about the myriad of variables!

The law doesn't care whether you're tenants or not, if they're obstructing your drive way, call the police.

Buy-to-lets are profitable because a mortgage, even at a higher rate is cheaper than the rents. Assuming a minimum deposit on 25 years, the rents are still higher. They could remortgage on a high rate and extend, but it would still be rare for the cost to exceed the rent for the equivalent house.

If you assume that they had the minimum deposit, then generally that is still lower than the rents. Which is why buy-to-lets are profitable.

Im afraid there are plenty of mumsnetters guilty of the 'just tenants' - or 'you will have to move into rental' too .

We pay a bomb to live in our very lovely 4 bed rental home in a beautiful city- could we buy? Nope, because we suddenly started earning very well at a point we were too old to get a mortgage over anything but a very short period. Could we buy elsewhere- probably yes- but not anywhere we would actually remotely want to live and we are against buyto let's. We do have other plans at what we would do further down the line-

If anyone wants to act superior to me they will get very short thrift as my rent is probably 3x their mortgage and is my 'home'

This is awful. Can you buy bollards or something to save your parking spots when you vacate them?

You shouldn’t need to, of course. But in your shoes I think I would, if only to annoy those awful homeowners

There are a lot of people out their who seem to think "renting from the bank" makes them superior to tenants.

I would just block their drive with your car. When they complain, just tell them "we're only tenants here so we don't give a shit".

They sound batshit crazy OP. The entitlement of them is disgraceful. People are awful regardless of whether they have a mortgage or rent, it’s just their mentality.

How's this not criminal damage?

Try being a single parent AND private rent. The judgement is then off the scale. Happened with me before I got back on the housing ladder, and I got loads of judgement from my neighbours.