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

A hard no from me! Run, don't walk away from this.

It sounds as if the arsey neighbour did you a favour on the day of viewing. If you had bought the house first, it would have been too late in the day if he turned out to be a problem,

Having lived next to a man who was obsessive about the space outside his house being ‘his’ and took it upon himself to stick fake parking tickets on people’s car windows if they parked there, it would be a huge no from me.

I have moved a lot and from experience know to always knock on the neighbours door - both sides- and ask about the area etc - don’t take the seller’s word for it when they say the neighbour is great

It would put me off incase he’s a nightmare neighbour. There was no need for him to be reviving his car like a passive aggressive prick.

Absolutely not. We made the mistake of falling in love with a house and ignoring some (fairly minor but still concerning) red flags from the neighbours.
We only managed to escape 7 years later (due to the banking crisis), I was a shell of myself, jumping at every knock or bang noise.

Moving from somewhere like this, to somewhere with very minimal neighbour issues has changed my life. Don't buy it.

There should be thousands of large signs all over the country: THIS IS A PUBLIC ROAD. RESIDENTS HAVE NO LEGAL RIGHTS TO CLAIM ANY PART OF IT AS A PRIVATE PARKING SPACE.

I've lived in a house with on street parking only, and had the odd territorial neighbour who tried telling me where to park etc, but I just ignored them as it was a public road, and people were parking where they liked all the time. I was glad to sell up and move on when I could though - I could never go back to any property with on street parking now.

I wouldn’t move into that house if he’s that aggressive over parking. Wonder why the owners are moving out!

Wouldn’t touch with a barge pole

No, I wouldn’t.

I always check out the neighbouring houses - are they generally wept kept and tidy, any red flags?

I also used to look out for obvious areas of dispute - shared driveways, shared paths, limited parking, dilapidated fences, etc.

We have a neighbour like this, which has led to a long drawn-out game of car chess. The thing is, we know she is unreasonable and a bit unpleasant, so at this point we just don't answer the door when it's her so she can't tell us her latest thoughts about the fence, the weeds etc. We're detached. It's fine.

I wouldn't buy it, it is a sign of things to come. Even if you have the option to put a drive in for your own parking, there will always be issues with guests and of he's that hot headed god knows what else, boundary lines, noise etc. dont risk it, it's horrible and stressful having A hole neighbours

Would avoid like the plague, neighbours can make your life so miserable and there's nothing you can do once you're in!

No.

This obsession with parking directly in front of your house at all times. As if roads are not shared. Ffs does my head in.

don’t even bother, sounds like years of stress and bother. Unless you can put a drive in and factor that into cost

for some reason parking 20ft away is cardinal sin the requires war with your neighbours for decades in certain places.

Absolutely not! I bought my current house because it had a driveway and moved from a house without it and the driveway was numer 1 item on must have list because there were issues with parking availability in my old house. I wouldn't even look at a house without driveway or a possibility to turn front garden into one. When I don't need a car to commute then this will not be an issue but as long as I do the last thing I want is to try to hunt for parking when I get home.

The thing is, perhaps it’s the people you’re buying from that are the nightmare? He may have had a huge problem with them leaving cars/vans outside.

But how would you do that?

Do you live in Royston Vasey?!

This reminds me of where I lived years ago. It was a town home .There were 8 units and we shared the parking lot. My next door neighbor claimed 1 of the spaces even though there were no marked reserved spaces. There were 3 spaces right in front of her home but she had to have the middle one. She would go around to every neighbor if she came home and someone was in "her space" to find out if someone had a visitor parking there.

I wouldn't dream of buying this house.

The one unknown in buying a house is the neighbours. Yeah you know if there are disputes that are on record but you have no idea what the neighbours are actually like and good neighbours make a house and bad neighbours ruin it. And realistically if I had a shite neighbour if I could I wouldn't make a formal complaint that would come up on searches - I'd just sell and move on.

My neighbours are the best and it makes such a difference.

Trust me when I say this, don’t do it. We’ve had countless issues with our very mentally unwell neighbour. I am sympathetic to a degree, she truly is very unwell and has had several stays in psychiatric hospitals since we moved in, but she’s also made our lives very difficult at points and the sympathy has stretched very thin with time. My partner has absolutely no sympathy at this point. Honestly, forget about it and move on.

Wouldn't go for it personally. A few years ago we went to view a house, walked in and thought wow perfect. As we were leaving noticed the house next door was a hoarders house so much random stuff in the garden, and old sofa in the shared drive, no curtains so could see through and the whole house was full of stuff. Just could not imagine living next to that with more mice and fire risk so it was a reluctant no . The estate agent said that other viewers have also said the same! Something else will come along.