HMO

arf at the govt putting 'a shout out'

And here we go.
Perhaps the OP should have said she suspected them of being asylum seekers in the first place. It was seemingly where this was going and the predictable responses will be on their way to add to your post.

And let’s hope the HMO tenants have the same. It would probably be quite unsettling to live next door to a woman who was always crying and, by her own admission, ‘couldn’t function.

@ThisOliveBiscuiti think people are being purposefully obtuse with why you would be fearful. There is an issue with massive immigration, with many being illegal, and the government has recently put a shout out to try and find thousands of houses for them. With the majority of these immigrants being young men from countries with different values - I wouldn't like it either.

In a previous house, my neighbours lived in a HMO - Early one morning they were raided. The man and his partner who lived there went down for modern day slavery. Those who lived there were a nuisance - from buying animals from the local pet shop to slaughter and eat, pissing in the garden, oggling our au pair, overflowing bins, the list goes on.

I get that youre not talking about young professionals, students, etc, but about groups of men from different countries who are a threat to women and girls.

Honestly, the posters trying to trap you, I can guarantee would not want these type of men living next door to them. You have every right to feel sad and worried. If other neighbours feel the same (I bet most do), could you write a joint letter to council? If there's already a problem on your street, maybe the press?

DH and I don’t currently live together, long story. He is in a hmo, in the time he’s been there, there’s been a doctor, a solicitor, a ceo, a project manager, a man who does telesales from home who is the nosiest because he slams the bathroom door after midnight shocker!!

I think you’re being ridiculously dramatic with the “can’t function and crying all the time”. The HMO’s where I live are largely filled with medical staff from our local hospital or young professionals. People have to live somewhere.

I’m not scared of people who’ve had different lives and experiences to me, and I don’t check the criminal record/substance use of any of my neighbours now, so I’d be good.

Imagine being so judgey!

men have got to live somewhere….where would you prefer ‘ex convicts’ to live? They are re starting their lives and deserve that chance

The examples you’ve outlined make you sound like a good neighbour. Let’s hope the OP has the same good fortune with the tenants when they take up the latest HMO that she’s referred to.

You can get bad people anywhere. Friend used to live in the Barbican - one of his neighbours was raided my police looking for drugs.

I used to live in a nice expensive semi-rural area. It turned out the house behind us was a cannabis farm. Somebody who I knew in the next road was arrested for drug dealing.

As it happens, I now live in an HMO. I have made some great friends here of all different ages - an older man who is very kind to every one used to be a printer , a young woman who has just started her career as a vet, an older woman who has a brilliant sense of humour and always makes me laugh. We have lots of nurses living here, a paramedic and a few business types and a lovely young media studies teacher. It's very quiet here. Everyone is respectful and from all different walks of life and several different countries.

So your objection is that they are poor, might be male, and might look "rough"?

You sound like an insufferable snob.

But you specifically mentioned the house next door when referencing the 'rough' looking men in your 2nd post, not the house down the road. Here, I'll quote your post for you

Unfortunately this is not the case , hose next door for example 6 men they drink and smoke god knows what outside they generally look really rough

Is there, aye?

I'm afraid you shot your credibility with that rookie error of inconsistency.

This must be a wind up? Imagine non-stop crying because some people you don’t know are moving in next door. You’ve no idea if this will be a problem, don’t seem to really understand what an HMO is apparently have such little life experience that people who look ‘rough’ are scary to you.

I feel a bit sorry for whoever has to live next door to you, curtain twitching and judging their every move.

Yeah. I bet you wouldn't.

You said earlier it's currently being developed - how are they already living there?

That’s where they’ll be when they’re “successfully” driven out of “hotels”

what a win for those protestors

@ilovesooty the 'etc' and the '....' certainly seem to be leading us somewhere don't they? First time poster, posting on weekend of well publicised asylum hotel protests and counter protests.

Dd lives in a HMO they are hard working tenants yes they come and go at all hours but they work odd shift patterns dd works lates chap upstairs is early her neighbour is 9/5 but dd never really hears them so I'm assuming the neighbours dont either

Are we going to be told that the tenants are asylum seekers?