Buying house - homeless outside

Yes!

To be honest that would bother me too. I'd take pictures and report them to the council to get moved off over night. I'd be concerned as to where they're going to the toilet and accessing water. Perhaps you can park your car and do a mini stakeout, to see if its going to effect your new house.

The way you have to point out you’re buying a house to show the stark comparison compared to you having the finances to buy a home and these people not even having the money to live anywhere except their car. You seem very snobby, they’re not affecting you. They’re not causing trouble. You should count yourself lucky that you’re privileged enough to have a roof over your head enough to actually buy a home. Maybe change your mentality of hating on homeless people because they’re lowering the status of what you have in mind of the area and change it to - hey they’re homeless maybe I should offer them some bottled water

For all the people being sympathetic to the van dwellers, take a trip to Bristol and see the state of caravan city in a beauty spot.
There has already been a case of a child who ended up with human waste in its eyes as there is excrement everywhere. Campers are not keeping it nicely inside thier caravans.
Also the health and safety aspect of the gas, there have been fires which could be devastating.

Why don’t you just politely ask them if they would move on

Or, like ours, make it possible to turn it off from the inside. It's always recommended anyway over winter to stop the pipes bursting.

Many vans are like campervans and have toilets in them.
Or they use public toilets.

Do you think they’re also shitting in your garden?

Do you actually want to move or are you using this as an excuse?

OP, you are being prejudiced and judgmental

Exactly. It’s one thing taking in someone you know or have a connection to who is homeless, but someone you don’t know at all is (to me at least) not wise. As someone said up thread, some homeless people are dealing with addiction and mental health issues which could cause them to behave in a way that’s out of character.

is the vehicle road taxed- u can look up the registration no. online etc
also think there’s a specific period of time a vehicle can b parked in a particular spot? Could be worth getting your Surveyor to look into this?

A cautionary tale for women is the horrific case of the female flat owner in west London who took in a homeless man and only to be brutally murdered a few days later. I read about it only very recently. Not typical perhaps but my goodness, appalling. You really don't know anything about who you'd be taking in.

That’s awful that happened to them when they were trying to be kind.

Why don't you go and speak to them.
See what's what.

I agreed with you, until your use of the term "Karen".

What's does community car park mean? Is it a public car park that anyone can use? Is it owned by the council? Or is it a private facility designated for a housing development? We had someone living in a caravan in our street some years ago and two parked fairly recently but not being lived in. They were reported and removed. I imagine it was the local council that dealt with them.

Based on having an outside tap myself, there will be a mechanism where you can turn off the supply to it inside the house or you can have one fitted. Yours may be different but you need to look at the water supply pipes and figure out if there is already a facility to turn it off from inside.

I wouldn't buy a house opposite a car park, or anywhere else that allows the possibility of people hanging around.

Could be...😉

First of all put the vans number plate into the dvla website….if it’s taxed, insured & has a valid MOT then I doubt there’s much you can do about it. If it’s isn’t then report to ? Council

My nephew and his wife did exactly this.
Took a homeless couple with a baby in, to help out. Silly, because he didn't even know them, just being too soft.

Cousin was attacked and money stolen in the night.
Is still injured 2 years later, wife still traumatised.

FInancial compensation doesn't alleviate at all, after what they went through.
So, please never let strangers stay over in your home...

Have you spoken to the estate agent and your conveyancing solicitor about your concerns.

Have you seen anyone use the tap, or even come onto the property? Someone in the situation you describe is likely to be pretty careful about being detected, whether they're actually doing anything illegal or just conscious that they might be spotted and reported even if they're not. It's possible they might have used the tap when the house was empty (assuming the water was not turned off) but much less likely when some's clearly bought the house/moving in.

If you know people are using it, can you turn the tap off at the source and just turn it on when you need it? A bit of a pain, but would save you the worries over cost.

And who can blame them?

From what you have said this could be something or nothing and various things in between. Maybe ring a bell next door and ask if any issues.

I’d just turn water off @. mains until you’re actually in residence.
We had a dustbins stolen by ‘travellers’ ( yeh they were parked in woods up hill & i saw it) they’d chucked our rubbish out onto the ‘drive’!
The other thing is, they see other things they might help themselves to, whilst accessing (illegally) the water.