Next door is up for sale and.....

[RunAwayWife]

it is going to a sealed bid auction so this evening it has got "open house".
So I get in to find a stream of people going in and out, several builders, a few middle aged couples a elderly couple and some right chav looking ones, a nice looking couple with a baby and so on, (I only noticed this because I was having to clear a whole load of paperwork out of the car and was outside when the first of them arrived) Anyway so many of the people viewing next door have been looking in my living room windows and peering over the back garden and parking over my drive, SO Would I be unreasonable to dig out some of DS1s thrash metal put it on full volume and start yelling at the kids drink your bloody fruit shoots daddy has gone to Greggs to get dinner, don't let the dogs out (we don't have dogs)

Or is that just a bit evil

Well it will drive away any potential nice quiet people, and any noisy ones will think "waheyyyy, this looks like a fun house to have loads of parties, the neighbours are noisy anyway"..

yep, go for it

YABU what happens if you do that at the exact moment when a thrash metal loving, fruit shoot supping family are looking round on their way to Greggs and they decide they've found a kindred spirit in their new neighbours

Just give your pampas grass a fluff. You might not be selling but you need to create a good impression

I think you should dye your hair pink and run up and down the garden wearing only flipflops shouting....'save the ants!'

Oh God, never thought of that

I shall put on some classical music and shout to the children come my dears your organic home made soup is ready,

thats better... in fact, change their names temporarily, Tarquin and Isobella would be perfect

squeaky is right - although I would be majorly pissed off at someone parking over my drive

The son of the people next door but one wants to buy it, he is nice got a partner and a baby and at least we would know what we were getting.

The lady that lived there has gone in to a home, the house has no double glazing, no heating, and wall paper from 1950

squeakytoy Thu 31-Mar-11 18:38:43

thats better... in fact, change their names temporarily, Tarquin and Isobella would be perfect

I have two boys so that could be interesting

Hmmm,could backfire?!!

yes, cause a fuss outside - this should give any prospective buyers a good idea of what they will put up with if they live next door to you !!

stop being so arsy - it's not forever

YANBU to do all that when required OP! I did the same when my downstairs neighbour was selling, eventually she would bribe me with a bottle of voddy to go out when she had a viewing. I ended up with very nice neighbours

Mollymole I was JOKING I really do not care who moves in.