Am i a bad neighbour or...

[Nataleejah]

We live in a semi. Ours is council, other is privately owned. Privately owned is charging extortionate rent, something that a working class family cannot afford. So usually yuppies move in and don't last much longer than a couple of years. Now there are a nice couple -- we are friends. Invite each other for dinner, parties etc.
Their landlord is an issue. He is a serial complainer. Complains about us all the time -- the noise, the dog, the rubbish, the unkempt hedges, you name it.
Ok, i'll be honest we're not ideal. We're just regular dc run around and play not in silence, dog barks sometimes, we have an occasional party, wind sometimes blows over the rubbish, and we cut our hedges when we want.
He grumbles that we're bringing his property value down. But... Is his extortionate rent our problem? As i said already, the people who live there are our friends. I asked them -- tell honestly, are we that bad for noise and shit? They said no, the guy is a dick.
So, who's wrong here?

I kind of agree with The Xxed.

We live in a council block. It is dirtier, messier and noisier than other areas but noone cares too much as it's so cheap.

I can well imagine the general standards would not be well received by private LL who were hoping to leech maximum rents nor tenants having to pay three times what everyone else does.

strawberry I actually do own a lime green string vest, I wore it too carnival a few years ago.

Privet coloured, eh?

Bollocks to the idea of people who live on council estates being more relaxed about a bit of muss and fuss.

I grew up on a council estate and very nice it was too. That was probably because my parents and their neighbours were considerate.

I had the best mum and dad in the world - TRUFACT - but they didn't allow us to annoy the neighbours and were fairly keen on gardening.

In fact I know my mum despaired of my lax housekeeping standards and fancy-dan property-owning superannuated yuppie ways. I call it genteel squalor. She knew it was the way you get vermin and food poisoning.

Who the fuck says yuppie any more, anyway? That's a serious chip OP. Let it go.

"Bollocks to the idea of people who live on council estates being more relaxed about a bit of muss and fuss."

Yes!!!
And the same to the idea that pvt tenants or owners are just anal and make up complaints.
Talking to you Strawberry

OP mentioned 3 potential complaint triggers that she admitted to - noisy kids, barking dogs and flying rubbish. A neighbour would not be unreasonable to complain!

And the same to the idea that pvt tenants or owners are just anal and make up complaints.
Talking to you Strawberry

Eh?

I don't believe I've generalised in the slightest have I?

"Honestly, you can see the overactive, Hyacinth Bucket, imaginations at work on this thread sad"

Strawberry

Haha

This;

And the same to the idea that pvt tenants or owners are just anal and make up complaints.
Talking to you Strawberry

Does not mean this;

"Honestly, you can see the overactive, Hyacinth Bucket, imaginations at work on this thread sad"

Not at all

It means that people are reading things into this thread that aren't here.

(Is Is English not your first language?)

Thankfully it is possible to be an owner occupier without being a terrible snob.

I've turned down work that would involve more than glancing contact with certain departments of certain local authorities

I'll say three words strawberry: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough.

I don't live there either as a tenant or bloated plutocrat and I've never worked there, but sometimes work has put me on a collision course with them and their army of faceless humour-vacuums.

It's never been pleasant and doesn't make me warm to the West Midlands even though my best friend comes from there.

She's moved.

I'll say three words strawberry: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough.

I'll make a note

army of faceless humour-vacuums.

Yes, that's the tribe

Strawberry there are no owner occupiers in this situation. There are private tenants, council tenants and a landlord.
Feels like you're making the thread a little bit about you if I'm honest.
The op asked if she was being unreasonable and people have answered their opinions... surely that's the purpose of the thread.

I was just answering what Eminado said about owners Kaytee. And correcting her assertion that I'd said something I hadn't.

"(Is Is English not your first language?)"

Wow.

Oh ok. Wow that you so massively misunderstood, then.