To dread new neighbours next door?

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All my adult life I've lived in properties that adjoin others either a flat or semi detached.
A year ago I moved into a lovely rented 2-bed house, with a couple next door who are about my age. There are so lovely and quiet, can hear normal neighbour noise like tv on low but no noise during night or loud music etc. now they tell me they're moving out tomorrow
I am dreading who moves in as I seem to have so much bad luck with neighbours. Argh

I only mentioned ndn being renters because they seem to have a higher turnover than mortaged homes.

Having had 2 lots of nightmare upstairs neighbours (think police raids, having to go and break up drunken fights in early hours, screaming kids ignored whilst the teenaged parents got drunk and stoned etc etc sort of nightmare ones!) was dreading next lot, but apart from one lot of police banging doors at 2230 one night, she's been thankfully not too bad, (even if she doesn't need to use her phone to call anyone else within 2 mile radius as her phone voice is SOOOO loud!)
I dream of the day I can live in the country surrounded by fields with nearest neighbour close enough to see lights in windows but not actually within easy hearing distance! (Alth would have to win lotto to afford it!)

My last neighbour lived here 20 years - we've been here 13. She was lovely. Like me, from a local old farming family. Like me, family names from first page of local parish registers. Even looked like me (we're inbred round here).

She had to move out cos of bedroom tax - she had been self employed but her work dried up when the recession hit so she was on benefits. Lovely lady.

Her replacements have been nightmare neighbours from hell. A chavvy woman in her late 20s and her 50 year old husband and 2 kids. They shout, scream and swear all day but go quiet whenever we complain to the council for a while. They call the police out, claiming we have stolen things from their garden (after lobbing said thing into our's/never having owned the thing in the first place) and last night, because my kids were cheering when watching the football. Council have hinted at mental health issues.

We have had to listen to endless (verbal) child abuse and called out SS and NSPCC. But nothing ever gets done.

If they ever move out no doubt we will get more of the same. All the other neighbours are brilliant and all feel sorry for us being next door to these dicks. The rest of us on this street get on incredibly well.

For fifteen years, I had wonderful neighbours. They moved as they needed somewhere bigger and the family from Hell moved in - parties till 6 in the morning, large group of Ned friends, no allowances made for elderly sick neighbour on the other side of them. My life was a misery. However, after two years of complaining they moved out. The day they moved I could have put out the flags. My new neighbours are perfectly normal, and quiet. Thank God.

It's the potential for high turnover of neighbours, not that they're renters as such. We were renters for years and years, and we're lovely . Apologies for inadvertent offence.

The reality is that transient neighbours are often less concerned with keeping good relations or receiving complaints from the Council. Overseas landlords couldn't care less (and have no liability for noise created by their tenants).

As a family, its never easy to live next door to a group of sharers who like to party every weekend. Whilst I expect those without children don't like to be woken by a screaming baby overnight or children at 7am on a Sunday morning, the fact is the Council won't support a complaint about normal levels of noise caused by day to day living.
Music played late at night will be considered very differently, both by the Council, under common law and environmental legislation.

Council's have a statutory duty to investigate noise complaints. The legislation takes account of the timing of noise (eg is it at night time), the area (eg is it a quiet area with mainly family homes) and whether the noise is an inevitable consequence of normal residential activities (eg loud music as opposed to conversation/babies crying).

Do complain to the Council, do keep a noise log. Oh and if you can afford it I'd recommend soundproofing. Don't just put up with it.

I fear we may be the neighbours from hell (noisy babies and children). When we moved out of our last house our adjoining neighbours phoned the estate agents to check we were going.

Renters are more likely to be young, just passing through, and not really invested in an area. A rented property can often be let to groups of students or people who have just left home for the first time, with a higher likelihood of loud music, regular parties, badly kept gardens etc. I think it's understandable that people will feel a bit nervous if the house next door to them is bought to let.
It doesn't mean that all renters are like that. But just a higher chance of getting inconsiderate neighbours.

I would worry too. We have a family one side of us who are unlikely to move. Their dogs bark CONSTANTLY and I suspect that's why the previous owners of our house only stayed 18 months. However, just after we moved in we had a baby (who didn't sleep at night for two years) and am about to have another - so I think they got the shit end of that deal.

On the other side is a LOVELY elderly man. He's 103! Every winter I fear he's not going to make it through and we'll have the neighbours from hell move in.

We had a mixture of people living next door as its a private landlord- the rest in the street/cul de sac are all owner occupied.
Average turnover of year/two years, students, families etc all OK apart from one family from hell, drugs, SS involved, wrecking the house ( broken toilet and they put all their shits in carrier bags and buried them in a hole they had punched in the wall- yeah nice find for the next tenant). They were evicted eventually and whole street cheered!!
The ones next door now are lovely, family of 5, hard working parents,3 well behaved, nice kids and even a gorgeous golden retreiver who I love to bits even though she does bark at & chase my cat lol! I hope this family stay we have become good friends .

The house is only a small 2-bed so unlikely to get student sharers thank goodness. It's perfect for a single person, couple, or family with 1-2 young kids. Urgh the wait begins...

Our last neighbours were very noisy, massive arguments early hours, parties etc. We were yay when house went on the market. When they going she said to me "good luck with your new neighbours, they are Lithuanian" and laughed. They are lovely, polite and very quiet. Looks like we've had the last laugh.

I was at the council office with some paperwork a while back and in the waiting area was a Polish man and his little daughter. He kept her amused, happy and was polite, friendly and you could see a decent person (not what the Daily Mail would have you think). I sat there the whole time watching him and his daughter and thinking I'd give anything to have some hard-working, polite, good person like you next door to me instead of the Jeremy Kyle guest underclasses who seem to get council houses, now.

Op we are about to drive up to our lovely, tiny, new terrace house. If we are your new neighbours we are lovely! And quiet. The garden won't be particularly tidy though.

We have a semi-detached. The man who owns the other side is in his 50s and only lives in the house a few days a month.

I'd say every three months he gets absolutely trollied and keeps us awake. We hear him stumbling home down the street singing Irish folk songs at the top of his voice, he gets in, puts the same godawful song on repeat full blast, and passes out in his armchair. You can't wake him up if you knock on his door so that's it for the night.

But then I think, if we have a family living the other side we'd hear constant noise. And maybe a drunkard keeping us awake every few months is better?

The house is showing as 'let' on right move!
Eeeek! Pleeeease be nice!!