...avoiding (evading?) stamp duty?
My lovely ex-neighbours sold their house 4 years ago to the Morons current people. The bloke steamrollered old neighbours into accepting £10,000 of the sale price in cash so that they could avoid paying the higher band of stamp duty. Sale price was £510,000. £500,000 went through the usual channels and the £10,000 they gave directly to sellers in cash.
At the time the housing market was teetering on brink of crash and sellers were anxious to get it sold.
None of my business really.
But...my new neighbours of 4 years are bullying arseholes. They've complained about the noise of us walking about our house (we're semi-detached). That we get up earlier than them (7am to their 7.30) and go to bed later (11pm ish and later at weekends...no idea what their bedtimes are). If we're walking about upstairs they hammer on the walls. The woman accosted me in the street, while I was carrying my baby from the car into the house, and told me she was going to get me Asbo'd (presumably for walking about my house we don't often do late night parties etc. Even if we have people round we're in the extension which is furthest away from the bedrooms). We have never had any "official" complaints, however. When they get drunk they hammer on the walls or throw things at the party wall. They complain and have shouted at us for parking in front of their house. It is a public highway with no driveways, anyone can park anywhere in the street. He once drove down the wrong side of the road in a game of chicken when he spotted me driving up...swerving at the last moment. I had the DCs in the car at the time. He also stops and stares at my two little girls when they're coming and going from the house. He's trying to intimidate us, he doesn't give us a second look when my DH is around, however. They're a couple in their late thirties, early forties with 2 young DCs themselves. They are both professionals. Their madness stems from the perceived noise nuisance. However, ex-neighbours say the new folk are being totally ridiculous and they found noise levels from us to be normal...they even sent us flowers and champagne when they left and a note thanking us for being great neighbours.
After 4 years, I'm pretty sick of them. Our home is perfect for us other than these twats next door.
There's not much we can do, but I really feel like dropping them in it with the tax thing, though I've no idea if after 4 years it would even be looked into or how to go about reporting it. Or maybe just having a word with myself to mind my own beeswax.