Any positive stories from those with lots of student neighbours?

[queenjosephine]

Hello
I've just moved into a new house and have just realised we have a lot of student houses nearby and more students (7!) are moving in next door this week....
Anyone else had this and been surprised by the lack of noise?
I know Its unfair to judge but I'm a bit scared of ongoing noise- I love my peace and quiet and work long shifts.....

I'm a nurse and live in the heart of studentville. The estate I live on is mainly families and students. I live in a terrace with students in one side. Never had an issue with noise or any problems at all. Been in my house about 8 years. Had a community protection officer come round yesterday to warn residents about noise. As apparently my area is noisy. It's not ever been an issue.

Thanks for your reply! That's reassuring X

Generally fine, I've lived alongside students in four places (five if you include being a student!) and never had anything particular to comment. Their gardens rarely get much love, depends on the landlord to manage.

There's always the possibility that you'll end up with a party house, but it's pretty unlikely. If you do, you can call up the uni and have them shout at the students - far better than when it's CF NDN adults!

I've had very mixed experiences living next door to students.

The thing I found most stressful about it is that they change every year so even when I've had great student neighbours, they'll be gone within a year and you have the uncertainty of who comes next.

I haven't actually had that many problems with noise but I have had issues with rubbish, cars, and generally untidy houses/gardens.

But, you're after positive stories. Here goes:

• One year I lived next door to a house of east African students. It was a three bedroom house but I think there were about 15 living there. I never heard a single noise from them apart from the one time they had a party and invited me. They cleared the garden and planted some lovely flowers, they used to clean the windows every week rain or shine . When they left, they turned up at my house with boxes and boxes of the most unbelievably delicious food to say thank you not sure for what

• One year I lived next door to three fucking smoking hot hunks rugby players. The first weekend they made a terrible racket so I went around at 8am on the Monday morning and gave them a piece of my mind. One of them brought flowers and a bottle of wine around the next day to say sorry. I didn't really hear anything from them for the rest of the year.

Sorry but I've always had bad experiences. There's a student house near me and last night it sounded like they had 100 people in their garden! I'm not their nearest neighbour though so hoping someone else will complain! One time I lived next door to a student house and they tried dumping all sorts of rubbish in my garden. I do seem generally unlucky with neighbours!

It completely and utterly depends on the students. For the first few years we didn't hear much, but then a group moved in who did like to hold parties every now again. But they were lovely about it - always warned us in advance, gave a mobile number so we could get in touch if it was too loud, brought round chocolates the day after, even moved it to another night of the week because of my husband's working patterns. At the end of the year they brought us wine and chocolate.

I didn't realise how good we had it until last year's lot moved in - talking noisily in the garden until late, smoking weed a lot, even just turning up their music on a weekday evening until midnight so the DC couldn't sleep. We tried the polite knocking on the door at midnight, and it didn't work, so when they woke me up at 3am on night, I stuck my head over the garden wall when they were all sitting on the other side, and let rip in my best teacher voice. They have calmed down a bit, but we still smell the weed drifting over. If they are bad this year we are going to approach the university, who are apparently quite good at dealing with this sort of thing.

We moved because of students - residential streets and students don’t mix in my experience. The first lot were lovely (Chinese), never heard a peep. Then the following years were hell - shouting, screaming, slamming doors, loud music in the early hours. Lost count of the amount of times we were banging on the door at 3am asking them to quieten down as we had to get up for work. Complained to the Uni but never made any difference. The final straw was when one of the students knocked on our door and asked us to stop drilling (we were repairing the front porch) as he was trying to study. It was a Saturday afternoon. 😒 DH lost his shit as we’d had months of disturbed sleep and tore the student a new one. That’s when we decided to move for our own sanity.

Thanks all
Hmmmmm they still haven't moved in... the ones over the road are all sitting in their garden shouting away at 10pm on a Monday night.... fucking rude if you ask me but then i must be getting old and boring... ?

If you're old and boring then so am I (and I work at a uni!) I never really get the sitting outside late thing but where I am it's started getting dark and cold quite early.

Get them told NOW to pack it in, so they've no excuses. Tell them it's a family residential area, not a low rise halls of residence. You need to be firm.

Idaho I just lost it and shouted out of the window really loudly (across the road!) to keep it down and move inside !!!
Can't believe I did that
Too scared to look out of the window now ... what if they are still there?
Arghhh I'm shaking! I never do stuff like this!

We've got the party house opposite us. Then another lot moved in next door to that and another lot again next door to that. They seem to have amalgamated into a festival. midweek and weekend parties non stop. They always spill onto the street shouting and screaming which I find immensely irritating and we are now moving in 3 weeks as we can't take any more. I'm so old

We have a student rental house next door. I agree each year feels like Russian roulette in that you have no idea what you’re going to get, but our experience has been really positive. In fact a new lot have recently moved in and they came round, knocked on the door to introduce themselves, and were extremely polite. They even asked about bin days and what could and couldn’t go in the recycling!!

Yeah, we've some nice groups but we've had some right druggie arseholes, too.

OP, you've done well, I know it's stressful, but why should they get away with awful anti-social behaviour? My DS is a student and he knows I'd be furious if he behaved like that.

Madamegazelle I am hoping for students like yours! They are Moving in any day...
Desperate to move house already!

Watch the film Bad Neighbours😁get some revenge ideas if they are terrible

I think I'd probably get the urge to water my garden if they were all still out cunting around late at night. I can be frightfully clumsy with a hose pipe

We lived next door to students for four years. It was a decent sized semi so there were usually four or five of them living there with plenty of space for parties etc. Three years we had absolutely no problems- they were fantastic neighbours. The one year they weren't was the year I went back to playing my cornet. I hadn't picked it up in about fifteen years, but I found the perfect time to practice scales etc was 6.30 in the morning after a night of being kept up by drunken partying.

We tried asking nicely. I can't count the number of times we went around at two in the morning asking them to quieten down a bit, or approached them in the garden about trying to keep the parties a little more sociable. No joy. Within about six weeks of me waking them up the following morning they became a lot more respectful! I always knew those brass lessons would come in handy

My brother owns a house he rents to students and as a landlord he makes sure neighbours have his details etc.... and tells the tenants he's doing this.

He had one awfully noisy lot but he served notice to them giving the reasons why, copying the letters to the parents who acted as guarantors and hot 4 huge apologies and no further issues.

The area where the house is situated is literally 3 minutes walk from the college which was built in the 1960's so to be fair I'm guessing if you buy in that area you know 70% are student rentals! On the plus side it's only busy sept-may plus they have holidays in there too so you generally get a quiet summer.

Most of them are fine it's just afew who give students a bad name!!!

I wish all landlords were like your brother Bella !
It's kind of a thing round here where everyone goes 'oh it's only a student party, bless em'
But if nobody complains nothing will get done....

The estate I live in is mainly oldies, families and lots of student houses. The house but one to mine is all students, and in 15 years there have been 2 lots of noisy annoying ones. The worst ones ever were a group of Asian girls who (from chatting to them in the street) had all come from quite sheltered backrounds. They were sweet girls but they went crazy with the freedom! Parties, falling around the street pissed, screaming matches and fights with boyfriends. They got it all out of their systems after about 3 months!

Our Uni is known for its engineering/IT type students, so maybe they are a bit quieter?

We lived next door to students. I wouldn't want to do it again! Our house was a Victorian terrace, which I absolutely loved, but unfortunately they made for good conversions into student lets. Lots of the houses in the street had been bought up by landlords to house 6+ students.
Some years the students were no problem at all. Other years, the noise was unbearable. The landlady was good & we had her contact details, but students tend to be loud and lively and didn't care that a family with young children lived next door. We'd ask them to turn their music down, which sometimes they would, only to turn it straight back up again.
I was very tempted to ring the doorbell very early on a weekend morning many, many times..
We had to move!

I live opposite two houses of students and they've always been brilliant.

Not students, but nurses (or maybe student nurses??

They complained to us one morning about some work we had done (it may have been a plumber, I can't even remember). Yes, the same ones who screeched and bellowed every night on their way home from the pub!!!

Next door to a student house at the moment. They're OK when they remember to keep the noise down; two of them have loud actors' voices which sound like they're addressing a crowded room, so they would keep us awake simply with "normal to them" talking. It's taken a lot of going round there at night to get the message across, with veiled threats to contact their university, and sending them a letter listing the dates and times they've disturbed us, telling them we'll forward it to their university if it happens again. Sometimes there have been gatherings of about twenty of them until after midnight, which has been a real problem.

I agree that the uncertainty year on year is difficult, not knowing who's going to move in is a problem. We haven't yet reported them to their university, but I did contact their college to find out which department and members of staff deal with such matters. We also have contacts within their institution, and have a few threats ready to make which I know will make somebody take notice.