Neighbour in flats asked me not to place my wheelie bin nearby

[PerkyOchrePeer]

Am I being un̈reasonable? I live in a flat. A young person has recently moved opposite and I do not like her. We each have our own. Wheelie bin and apparently I place my bin too close to hers so she has asked me not.\nTo put it so close and then she said, it's not her job to move it.So she can get her bin in and out to take it out for the bin. If that was me, I would just move the oven bin along, so I could get my bin in and out, I think she's being totally out of order.

We have already been told that a cleaner would be paid for out of our service charge and I know other people in flats and they have a cleaner and it comes out of their service charge. The other thing we have asked for is for the carpets in the communal area and stairway to be replaced. Because it is very old and afraid and in all the years I've lived here, it has not been replaced. And my neighbour below me said she wants the carpet replaced, because she's too embarrassed to invite people to visit her because they'd be walking through a shabby entrance with a rotten carpet but the housing people say they haven't got enough money in their budget to replace the carpet.

You do realise that your service charge would go up to cover the cost of the cleaner, the electricity cost of anyone who feels like using it and the same with the cost of a replacement carpet.
None of this can be done without the consent of all flat owners.
What you want doesn't trump everyone else in the block

Yes , we have been told that the service charge would increase and we're all prepared for that , and we're all happy to pay whatever the extra cost is

We are all aware of everything and the cost of everything and are happy to pay whatever the cost is for the carpet. If they can get one or if they can get a cleaner, we're more than happy to pay, whatever it is. Someone I know.\n Near me lives in a similar situation to me, rents from a housing association. And they have a cleaner who comes every week to clean their entrance and other carpets.\n And their entrance to their property is spotless. And the carpet looks brand new and it's been decorated to a high standard\n So I just want to see this place hasn't been touched for over 20 years. And a paint is peeling off the walls in the communal area. It wouldn't cost much to give it a lick of paint, but they just can't be bothered.And it's one excuse after the other

You are so full of erm , ‘good advice’ . I can see why so many people beat a path to your door to collect the words of wisdom that fall from your lips like pearls.

How curious that the communal hallway and stairs in a housing association property are carpeted. What a massive fire risk that is.

Most people living in properties with communal areas (whether rented or owned) aren't even allowed to put so much as an ornament on the windowsill, let alone a mat outside their own front door. Yet here you are, with wall-to-wall carpets.

How many flats are in the building?

Not sure how this would even work now that one of the flats is privately owned? Do they still pay a service charge as well? Seems a very odd set up to hand 1 flat out of 3 in a converted house as private and the other 2 as housing association.

On another thread she said there are 3 - it’s a converted house.

Thanks @Tillow4ever

Does the HA still own the freehold and hence charge the service charge or is this done by a private company, I wonder...?

I think you need to move out of your flat seeing as living in close proximity to other people winds you up so much and go live in a detached house on the side of a mountain somewhere. You'd still probably find something to moan about im sure

Yes they pay a service charge to the housing association

I could move somewhere sorseabd I like my flat. I've spent a lot of money doing it up getting it right with just a right colour scheme.So no , i'm not moving , and I have a massive kitchen

@Tillow4everits actually quite common, I have discovered. Not always a great idea for the purchaser, with huge council servicing bills on occasion.

If you share your space with other people, you have to compromise, I'm afraid. And you can't force others to live and act they way you want to.

I assume the HA intends to sell the other two flats as and when tenants leave (since they only sold the studio flat when someone was evicted).

Regarding the hoovering. OP, you and the opposite neighbour could get a hoover on an extension cable to do the stairs, hallway and landing, if you didn’t want to get a rechargeable one. It’s not unreasonable for your downstairs neighbour not to want to do it all the time and it seems unlikely the HA will do it even if it happens at other properties.

Why would she get an extension lead when she does not have a Hoover? Because she does not have carpets in her flat. All her floors are wood floors. And it's okay in theory to say she can get an extension, but in practise, it wouldn't work because she has not got a Hoover and I don't think she would want to use another tenants Hoover.

You really do like to argue with everyone and about everything! It was just a suggestion!

cantankerous old bat
You sound like the Nightmare Neighbour OP

You can’t expect people to do things in the same way as a different person just because they live a house that the first person lived on previously. That’s madness. She lives there now, what previous people did or thought is completely irrelevant.

@PerkyOchrePeer do you ever think you might be the problem? Your posting history suggests so.

Eh?

Downstairs neighbour has a hoover and got fed up being the only one doing it.

You (presumably) have a hoover and so could use that with a long extension cable.

If opposite neighbour only has a wooden floor and no hoover, well, surely alternating with downstairs neighbour only is better than you both complaining about an unhoovered carpet.

Because that would mean the evil neighbour, who wants to be able to get to her bin, would be walking on tatty but hoovered carpets that she doesn't deserve.

That’s because you trip over mats. You don’t trip over a fully fitted carpet.