to be fuming but also not want to start a feud - LONG

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Back story: we were emergency rehoused 18 months ago due to major issues with a neighbour - who was giving us and my family death threats (not just us - plenty of people in the street and also prev tenants but we were the only ones who took him to court over it and had police/ASB team involved).

Our current property is in a communal block of four flats. The tenant downstairs has two dogs that he lets out in the street to go to the toilet wherever they like (even in the communal hall) he never picks this up or cleans it and I have twice before requested the HA send people to remove it or clean the hall downstairs. We have cleaners for this hall once a month, an extra 12 per week. Our flat is upstairs.

Yesterday I had to take the morning off work for the annual heating checks to be done. The contractors came in and walked what I thought was mud over my cream hall carpet! I told them and they turned and walked out to the front foor and wiped feet in my mat. After they left I realised it was dog poo - a not that smelly type! I went out to buy new carpet cleaner (it was everywhere - I thought it was mud so had decided to wait until it was dry to remove easier) and saw that it was stood in on the communal door step and walked throughout the corridor and up the stairs.

I have this morning contacted the HA and told them. I am 20w pregnant and I was so angry that I had to spend my Monday lunchtime on my hands and knees cleaning neighbours dog sh!t off of my carpet...which has now stained :(

HO has contacted me to apologise on neighbours behalf and has written a warning to him. Now I am nervous about it...so worried that he will start ranting and raving (yes - he is that sort of person) I don't want to go down that road again but at the same time am fed up!

You should be contacting the contractors who actually walked shit all over your carpet, they have responsibility too here.

How vile! With both experiences..

A good example of someone else s problem being made your problem!

This neighbour sounds an absolute charmer....

Does he work this bloke..?
Or does he have nothing else to do but to act unpleasantly and antisocially?

Ive come across versions of this behaviour a lot when I worked for social services... Some people seemed to think it was their god given right to be unpleasant and disrupt others ' lives. It also seemed however many HA/environmental health people /police were involved, it often just continued... Was horrid for neighbours. These bullies seemed to treat vicimising their neighbours as their hobby!

It strikes me that this may be a function of living in a flat... I know it must be difficult.. Is there any way you can move to a house via the HA once the baby is here? Sometimes tje best strategy is to just avoid the problem rather than fight it!

Is it possible to rent privately? Pal up with another couple and rent a much larger house in a decent area? (although I do t this this is just a class thing... There are complete arses everywhere!)

Try not to worry too much - easier said than done I know - as hopefully anti-social neighbour will assume the contractors reported the dog mess in the communal areas.

Yes I have also forwarded the same complaint to the contracts manager of the electrical company.

Once the baby is here we will then be looking for a house, until then there is nothing we can do anyway.

No we are the only tenants in the block that work.

We almost had an exchange last week but as the person wanting our flat had a dog he was not allowed to move there as the HA have changed their policies for pets in communal blocks. Grrr.

Due to debts we are trying to pay off and impending extra person we cannot afford to private rent anymore, we used to private rent a house but circumstances meant we were no longer able to afford this. Don't fancy sharing with a baby on the way and being a couple on our own for 8 years.