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House viewings - neighbour refuses to take down flag - Update

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KayleighhMum · 27/08/2025 16:36

Hi all, as a follow up to the previously full thread.

DH spoke to our neighbour again this morning and explained the feedback we received from the first viewings yesterday and that the couple who liked it were put off bidding by the flag.

Our neighbour seemed to understand and said he’d be taking the flag down anyway as the weather is turning.

However, I’ve got home from work to find the flag is still up and he’s also erected a ‘Vote Reform’ banner with Nigel Farage doing a thumbs up pose. So he is clearly taking the piss at this point.

Our estate agent even said to us about having a word so I’ve no idea where we go from here.

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BettysRoasties · 27/08/2025 17:29

Falseknock · 27/08/2025 17:28

It worked we fucked up his summer. He tried to tell the police but he's a rat and didn't tell the full story or show the full CCTV he gave to the police. He wasted their time. The police doesn't deal with noise and the council won't do anything. He had to move in the end.

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But it’s op who wants to sell up not the neighbour.

nomas · 27/08/2025 17:29

SerendipityJane · 27/08/2025 17:29

Yes !
Yes !!
Yes !!!

And the sooner Nigel is PM and sweeps away all this woke bollocks the better.

VOTE REFORM !!!!

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Put down the kool aid.

SerendipityJane · 27/08/2025 17:29

nomas · 27/08/2025 17:27

The good old days of what? When racism was accepted as a fact of life? When people thought blackface was funny?

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Yes !
Yes !!
Yes !!!

And the sooner Nigel is PM and sweeps away all this woke bollocks the better.

VOTE REFORM !!!!

Sesma · 27/08/2025 17:28

Excellent Grin

Falseknock · 27/08/2025 17:28

BettysRoasties · 27/08/2025 17:25

There does come a point where the neighbour could complain about being harassed by ops husband to be completely fair.

Twice they have gone round, soon to be three times over the same issue.

All funny for us sitting here saying tell him your let the council rent it out, play mosque music. But it’s not us trying to sell our house.

It worked we fucked up his summer. He tried to tell the police but he's a rat and didn't tell the full story or show the full CCTV he gave to the police. He wasted their time. The police doesn't deal with noise and the council won't do anything. He had to move in the end.

nomas · 27/08/2025 17:27

SerendipityJane · 27/08/2025 17:23

Because I am old enough to remember it first time around and this thread gave me a flash of nostalgia for the good old days.

And I have a fucking weird sense of humour at times.

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The good old days of what? When racism was accepted as a fact of life? When people thought blackface was funny?

DarklingIlisten · 27/08/2025 17:27

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SerendipityJane · 27/08/2025 17:27

Being serious for an interlude, I think the OPs DH has rather queered the pitch, to coin a phrase.

Two men going at it over something like this was never going to work.

There's too much toxic testosterone in the mix now.

Surveille222 · 27/08/2025 17:26

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Fluffyhoglets · 27/08/2025 17:26

I would genuinely try and sell to a landlord. They won't care about the neighbours and the neighbours won't be able to do a thing about who moves in.

IAmTheLogLady · 27/08/2025 17:26

onpills4godsake · 27/08/2025 16:40

I would be tempted to advise them that if you cant sell you have been told about a scheme to sell to the council to use for short term housing of x,y,z -

I wouldn’t actually do this but the thought of their faces when they worry about the people they protest against moving next door would bring me some satisfaction - sounds like an awful situation op!

Or this.

BettysRoasties · 27/08/2025 17:25

There does come a point where the neighbour could complain about being harassed by ops husband to be completely fair.

Twice they have gone round, soon to be three times over the same issue.

All funny for us sitting here saying tell him your let the council rent it out, play mosque music. But it’s not us trying to sell our house.

Falseknock · 27/08/2025 17:24

ReleaseTheDucksOfWar · 27/08/2025 17:20

DARVO.

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Against a racist with pleasure.

IAmTheLogLady · 27/08/2025 17:24

Is his house attached to yours? I'd wind him up back tell him you've sold the house to developers who are turning it into an HMO.

DarklingIlisten · 27/08/2025 17:23

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SerendipityJane · 27/08/2025 17:23

nomas · 27/08/2025 17:17

Why would you share that?

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Because I am old enough to remember it first time around and this thread gave me a flash of nostalgia for the good old days.

And I have a fucking weird sense of humour at times.

Falseknock · 27/08/2025 17:22

@DarklingIlisten Racists are easy to deal with. All the op needs to do is make life hard for him. Our neighbour couldn't wait to move we drove him to it. We played that type of music he said he didn't like. He was a rat hiding in the end.

ShesTheAlbatross · 27/08/2025 17:22

ReleaseTheDucksOfWar · 27/08/2025 17:20

DARVO.

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You’ve lost me I’m afraid.

SerendipityJane · 27/08/2025 17:21

I do idly wonder if there will be data showing what house and rental prices are like in areas with flags, compared to areas without flags ?

Presumably areas with flags want lower prices so the locals can get on the housing ladder ?

Robin67 · 27/08/2025 17:21

Also, could you start to blare "mosque music" at 6 am and 6 pm?

ReleaseTheDucksOfWar · 27/08/2025 17:20

ShesTheAlbatross · 27/08/2025 17:15

I agree the neighbour can do what he likes, and I wouldn’t have asked him to take the flag down (I would have been worried that buyers might be put off, I just wouldn’t think I should ask him).

But it sounds like what OP has done is ask him twice. It’s a bit of a leap to say she has coerced, bullied, and harassed.

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DARVO.

HelpMeGetThrough · 27/08/2025 17:18

If OP goes around again, he’ll have a poster of Tommy Robinson up next.

nomas · 27/08/2025 17:17

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Why would you share that?

Falseknock · 27/08/2025 17:16

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No she wasn't she spoke to him politely. He retaliated and showed his patriotism. He doesn't want people like me and my partner to live next door to him. Why else would he retaliate in such a volatile manner.

BettysRoasties · 27/08/2025 17:15

You were warned. I’d guess next steps would be loud music of a certain type.

Be careful. You don’t want to end up getting yourself involved in some type of neighbour dispute while trying to sell.