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

Why don't you just block them in when they do that? That's what I do.

You should respond and say its a good job you rent because you don't have to live next to people like him for the rest of your lives and can easily move away.

Take lots of pictures and ask your agent to send them to your LL. Maybe if the homeowner turns up to have a word they might listen. You could always just say you are the LL daughter/nieceor something if that works.

I've not encountered this with home ownership but I've definitely encountered it with cars - ie if you have a cheap (relatively speaking, I'm not sure any second hand car is cheap these days!) car you must be poor and therefore not worth speaking to.

Experienced it with parents of members of ds's football team. Also a neighbour. And a neighbour of my mum who was inspecting our 2014 reg car (my mum spotted him looking at it said our Porsche was in the garage )

The thing is, I probably afford a new(er) car but I don't want one - I work from home and don't need to drive very much.

And by the same token it's a bit of an assumption that people who rent can't afford to buy - there are lots of reasons why people rent! And so what if they can't afford to buy. Lots of people can't afford to buy. It's weird how people think they are morally superior because they (think they) have more money.

Silly snob OP but it's hard when you live next door to them.

They're making a point about entitlement.

Call parking control at the council? Once I parked in a hurry when I was late for work and forgot to check the position of the front of the car. It was partially blocking someone's drive and I got a fine. I assumed the resident called the council as it's unlikely a parking warden just happened to be patrolling. (We live in a CPZ and one year I forgot to renew my yearly permit - they are online now so nothing put in the car window. It was 6 months before a warden noticed.)

You can’t look up what rate their mortgage is on, what term it is and what their deposit was though 😂

Correlation is not causation. Your neighbours are just wankers, home owners or not.

For gods sake let’s not add homeowners v renters to the tribalism debate - theres enough already!

I agree with your DH. I do own and I commend anyone who rents as I know I couldn’t afford it. Also you are paying for the use of the house and your neighbour isn’t so it’s your right to use the property and driveway not theirs.

I’m having a very similar issue. I live on a nice new build ‘estate’ where all of the houses are owned and are worth around £1m+. On this estate is two small council block of flats, we pay over £1k to the council so our rent isn’t cheap - but they treat us like crap because we’re council and they own their homes. The flats have a car park where we have allocated parking spaces. The houses don’t want to lower the status of the area by making it look ‘messy’ with cars on the road so they send their visitors to park in our car park - which means them parking in our allocated spaces. I mean when people have parties, all guests park in our car park which means none of us residents cannot park in our own spaces. I have brought it up the council and they do nothing, yet when one of the houses bring something up - the council send out a letter to state to ‘not park on the kerbs/road’. I have two allocated spaces and one car and a lot of the time cannot get one of my spaces. These houses have garage/garages AND large drives and still have the audacity to use our carpark. Yet they think because they own their homes and we’re ’just’ council that we’re beneath them.

Yanbu they shouldn’t block your driveway.

But you have no idea what their mortgage is…

Urgh I sympathise OP it absolutely should not matter you rent but sadly some people get very excited or irate about renters. When we moved in we got a vibe that the neighbours were all actively avoiding us despite us being friendly. About 8 months in one finally spoke to us and referred to us as renting. We said we weren't renting and suddenly all smiles. She is the street's gossip so within a month suddenly everyone else started being friendly. We've since had regular unsolicited updates on who owns and who rents on the street. Bizarre how much people care about this sort of stuff.

I like the previous posters suggestion of reminding him any neighbour disputes will have to be declared if and when he sells his house.

We rented a house for 6 months when we moved to a new area. The snobbish next door neighbour was horrified to have tenants next door instead of the RAF officer owners, and caused a lot of stress and trouble with complaints and reports. When we told her were moving she asked where to and clearly didn’t believe we were buying the much bigger nicer house than hers. A couple of days after we moved we saw them slowly driving past the new house peering in to check it was us.

A few people see rental houses on their street as a negative I'm afraid. They think it dents their property value. Quite often but not always it does. Very few people then go on to verbally abuse those that are living there. They are psychos.

@TellMeWhoTheVillainsAre i would do this too. “I’m blocked in by by your guests, I’ll wait here while you fetch them to move their vehicle.” If they reply “we will move it in five minutes” I’d repeat “I need to use my driveway now, so that won’t work - I’ll wait here.”

And if they re parked across the drive, I would ring again as soon as they did, and again drive around the block.

I would definitely also contact LL and explain and ask for a legal letter to be sent to neighbour explaining that if drive is repeatedly blocked, cars will be towed with no notice and expense charged to neighbour starting from dd.mm.yyyy.

You have the same right to access your property as houseowners.

if ll says no to sending a letter, explain you will otherwise be forced to raise a dispute with police and local authority and this means it would show up if ll ever wishes to sell the property. Ll may not like that.

Every single time someone blocks your driveway I'd go knock on the door.

"Could you move your car please?"
Even if you just drive around the block.

Next time
"Could you move your car please?"

Do it enough times and the guests will cop on. He's probably told them it's ok to park wherever as you won't be going anywhere. I suggest you go somewhere, every-single-time.

This ! You're tenants so no skin off your nose but definitely affects him !

Get the council enforcement people to come and tow them. Every time.

Just remind them that a neighbour dispute will knock thousands off the value of their house

Try being council tenants to boot. We had one whose son would shoot his air gun out of the bedroom window at our son who he was bullying at school too. 'you can't do nuffink, my dad owns our house'

Another house, neighbour tried telling us what type of car we could have. Complained about noise, until council told him there wasn't a problem, it was the house construction but if he wanted sound proofing he could pay for it.
Complained we had a caravan. ( we had already checked, and we could have it. )

we pay 1.5 times more in rent than he does for his mortgage so he needs to get a life

He sounds truly awful but what on earth has this got to do with anything? This is just as silly isnt it?

This is amazing- has brightened my day already!

Your neighbours are vile OP but thats their personality not due to owning their home. They would have been twats when they rented too. I own my house and have had neighbours park over my drive constantly as it's right next to the downs so people walk their dogs there. It's unbelievably inconsiderate.

Our next door neighbour tried to lord it over us because she'd lived there longer than we did which was so stupid. As if living there longer gives you the right to tell your neighbours what to do- karma got her in the end as she had to move out and into a small flat. I often wonder how she reacted when her new neighbours told her she couldn't do anything as she hadn't lived there as long as them!

Tell them they might own their property but they don’t own yours so they need to stop blocking access to it

It’s nothing to do with renting or owning, he’s just a twat, surprised you don’t know this and have to ask.

in addition I’m not sure the fact you pay more is the positive you’re making out.

Worse is when you live in a flat and one or more of the neighbours owns. Had one spiteful cow who was really like Mrs Hobbs. Had another guy who would rummage through the rubbish and recycling and leave passive aggressive notes up starting with 'tenants'.