Would you buy a house if the neighbours were a bit weird?

Hell no. Don’t buy that.

I'm surprised at these replies, was he aggressive as it doesn't sound like it from your OP, he was just waiting to park? Is there lots of parking otherwise . I'd just laugh at anyone like that .

I wouldn’t buy it. Trust your instincts. That said my greatest entertainment is watching my neighbours across the road in their parking war. I’ve watched both run out in pjs and in the rain to move their car a foot forward or back. Cones and clamps have been been involved. It’s ridiculous

We live in a lovely house without off street parking. NEVER AGAIN. Two of our neighbours are nightmares, park numerous vans and vehicles right out the front, around 5-6 per household, one left their caravan blocking our kitchen window for a couple of weeks until we had to go and ask them if they would be moving it. They also regularly block the only actual spaces available (we have three for residents) and will then swap vehicles around to ensure they aren’t available. I have a toddler and pregnant with our second and it gives me such anxiety now that I’ll sometimes choose not to go out in the car just in case! We aren’t able to request a driveway as there is a green in front our our house, which someone applied for parking for the 6 houses in our row, but was denied. So now neighbours just park all across this green 🤪

No on both counts. I would personally never live anywhere with no parking and the neighbour sounds like a red flag. I have the misfortune of having dreadful neighbours (they moved in after us), and as much as I love my house, I find myself counting down the days till we can move.

Absolutely no way would I buy a house where someone was insane about parking.

When we had a removal van for my mum, next door neighbour came out and gave us the 'law of the land'. Turns out that she is actually a lovely lady.

When I first moved into my home, we parked in front of front door neighbour, and said we can't park there. Even though this is public parking...?
Lovely lady, but because she was actually so nosy, I stopped talking to her, this doesn't bother me though.

I would recommend going over and apologising, like others have suggested here. That way you see them and how they react.

I would also go and visit the house maybe every night? Especially on the weekend? If they are this noisy when parking, maybe they like to have parties on the weekend.

Neighbours can make a great home not very nice, so definitely worth looking into more

No way. Think of it as a lucky escape.

It’s a bullying tactic and if you were to buy the neighbouring house, he won’t stop.

we are rural and have someone like him in our road. For some reason he seems to think he has lived here longer than anyone else (he hasn’t), and has threatened, abused and bullied nearly everyone in the road and in the wider area.

several complaints have been made to the police and they visit him every now and then. Some even have trespass orders against him.

you could ask your agent to ask the vendors what the deal is with him, but I would put money in it that he may be part of their decision to leave. I know some of ours have considered it.

It would definitely put me off. There is nothing worse than having difficult neighbours.

We have moved a few times, though have stayed put for the last 30+ years. We have only ever had relatively minor problems with one neighbour but it was unsettling. This incident suggests a neighbour who is going to be very difficult. Steer clear.

No do not buy the house. Neighbours can make your life hell and you can be trapped.
Please take notice - we suffered for a long long time. The freedom after leaving is real!!

This would put me off 100%

No, I would not risk it. Definitely not

It would totally put me off.
If that's how he treats complete strangers I can only imagine how he will behave when issues arise.

If you have visitors where will they park as he won’t like them parking outside his house. How many cars do you have?
If it’s one car and you don’t have guests ever it will be fine.

Likely other people in the road are the same in my experience in both the north and south of England. Will be constant parking wars so think carefully if you want to live with that.

It's a no from me

A house further down our street has just gone up for sale. The neighbour suddenly put up a load of flags when the sale sign went up 😂🫣

Avoid. We had a similar situation recently when viewing a house. We stopped our car outside the neighbour’s as we weren’t sure which house we were viewing and immediately she was outside telling us to move. Then she came knocking on the door while we were viewing to tell us off again. She was tightly wound and a curtain twitching oddball. Life is too short - trust your gut. We found another house.

Nope I wouldn't want that.. have you seen the viral tiktok re on street parking battles..I cant remember her name..but bloody nightmare
We have just moved away from nightmare neighbours .relief is huge
If delivery came and neighbour had masses of room to get out...they would ask my delivery to move...if delivery reversed into their bit of road they would ask me to contact company to not do again. Bloody nightmare.

No that would put me off. I wouldn’t buy. I’d rather have a house will a union flag on the front 🤣

Run like hell!!

Hmmm. Buy in haste, repent at leisure with angry guy next door....
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No! Bad neighbors can make your life a living hell. Speaking as someone who lived next to one for almost 20 years.

Absolutely do not buy this house. We only have on street parking and I’m so lovely that no one around here “claims” a space we all just park where there is space and if it’s outside our own houses then that’s even better. We may move our cars if a spot closer to our house becomes available but that’s it we would never tell anyone else to move! he will be an absolute nightmare I would take it as a-bit of luck and a fair warning you had this happen because at least you know what he’d be like to live next too