To be bothered by this?

[Madratlady]

Our next door neighbours have complained to the landlord about 2 things:

First about visitors parking at the end of our drive. This happened on one occasion in over a year of us living there when my Dad came to drop something off. It wasn't actually blocking their drive and Dad and DH apologised as the neighbour was clearly annoyed when she arrived home as Dad was leaving but she blanked their apology. We always make sure our visitors park up the street out of the way.

Secondly that our back garden is untidy, which it is, however only in that the grass is long and the rabbit run cover is tatty. The garden gets waterlogged when it rains so we can't mow it unless the weather is better. Also, they can only see our garden if they stand looking out of their upstairs back window so it doesn't affect them a great deal.

They also dislike the fact that we have cats although there are about 8 other cats on the street. They have never actually complained about them, but I have a feeling that might be contributing to them complaining about other stuff. We don't like their visitors who come every weekend and make it very tight for us to get out of their drive, and we certainly don't like their yappy dog which barks late at night when they let it out and whenever we are in our garden, but we accept that sometimes there are minor things you dislike about neighbours so haven't said anything because it would be petty.

We wouldn't mind if they actually talked to us if they have a problem but going straight to the landlord about minor things will reflect badly on us as tenants and we're upset because we are very happy here and want to stay long term and potentially buy the house if the LL will sell in a few years.

AWeBU to be so upset and quite annoyed too? I will be going round tomorrow to point out that they can always talk to us if they have a problem as we don't want to be on bad terms with the neighbours.

YANBU, my tenants' neighbour is a twat. Some just are. They like having someone to complain to IMO, they wouldn't do it if you were owners.

Don't bother going round - you're doing nothing wrong.

Their stupidity in complaining about fuck all does not reflect on you as tenants. Just ignore them.

sorry, do you share a landlord?

If not i sincerely hope the landlord will not give a flying whatsit about their petty complaints.

i mean,if you owned the house, would they have written to your mortgage lender?

weird people. do not let it bother you in the slightest.

and we have a shared drive with our lovely neighbours and are both v careful to keep it clear. it is a 100% occurence that if either of us block (unloading or car cleaning or similiar) the other will arrive. we both laugh and park down the road and sort it out later.

at least renting, if they continue to be nuts, you can move. and hope the ll rents it out to a large noisy family who keep barking dogs and have 15 cars.

Yanbu. We used to have a similar neighbour. He called social services because my son screamed loudly (out of pleasure, when he was 3) when he was playing on his scooter. The old got could see my son out of his window so knew what was happening. We moved.

I would hope a proper, decent, sensible landlord would just shrug it off.

Our tenants had been in for about 2 days when we got a furious, abusive phone call from the neighbour. Followed by an e-mail.

Because the tenant had put the bins out a day early.

TBH, we felt horrified that our poor tenants had to put up with such crap, and worried they might put their notice in. Your LL's concern is that you are happy, one would think.

They are friends of our LL's parents who are the people that the letting agency actually deal with. Thing is, from talking to other (nice) neighbours, then several of the previous tenants have been complete nightmares, I really don't think we're too bad and we get on fine with the neighbours on the other side who we share a wall with!

We've been here since last november, like the house and it's very cheap for a house of this size in this area. We get on with all the other neighbours and want to stay, preferably permanently! The LL has spent a fair bit of money replacing the boiler and a radiator for us. And we always pay our rent and look after the house which was pretty scruffy when we moved in anyway.

I know other posters have said to ignore it and that you have done nothing wrong, which you haven't and they are right but I understand the worry about LL. Could you 'get in first' and have a chat with him about the neighbours? Explain about the garden etc. I suspect he knows about these people who have nothing to do except complain about minor things.

We deal with the letting agency not directly with the LL. The letting agent mentioned it to me when they did an inspection today, I think the complaints might be why they inspected the house today.

I did send an email saying that we are happy here and want to stay so we are concerned about the complaints and how it would reflect on us as tenants.

I realised earlier that they can only see half of our garden so they have actually complained about our waterlogged garden not being mowed in the middle of January. I am probably massively over reacting but this has got me really worried. What if they complain more and the LL decides to make us move out? We can't afford anywhere near this nice, this house is very cheap. And few landlords will accept the pets we have. I hate renting!

Disclaimer: I have a 5wo baby and am sleep deprived so I am probably massively over thinking this.

Keep a log of everything and then if it escalates you have evidence for harassment.

Bastarding arseholes. Congrats on your baby. :)

The letting agency replied to my email to say that they had no concerns about the house and just make sure we keep on top of the garden when we can.

I may be over sensitive because we had to move out of our last house because the LL made up a complaint (agreed to our pets then claimed we didn't tell her about them) which was very stressful!

No, I think you've just got a rotten neighbour.

I've got a rotten neighbour. After years of trying to appease her, I found the only way to stop her was to reply with things she does that bother us. I wouldn't apologise - it gives the serial complainer more fuel and motivation.

The letting agent have probably got their measure from complaints about previous tenants.

Doesn't sound like you're doing anything wrong to me.

We are the only renters on the street in a fairly naice village. I think we are being judged. Thankfully the other neighbours are lovely. I guess everyone has one of 'those' neighbours. Retired and with too much spare time to stress about tiny things.

Nobody mows their lawn in January! You'd ruin it!

And what Egusta said.

Otherwise, go over the top with pleasantries and Good Mornings/Afternoons/Evenings.

Kill them with politeness.