New neighbour from May is now selling up

[BG2015]

I posted another thread in May (don't know how to link it?) about my neighbour complaining about our music noise after he'd only been in the property 5 days. We don't play a lot of loud music so we were very surprised when he knocked on the door.

He's just had the house totally redecorated and recarpeted and it's now up for sale for £12k more than he paid. Pictures on Rightmove show very sparse furnishings inside.

I'm perplexed and my OH says I'm becoming mildly obsessed with finding out why he's selling. Can't see that he will make much profit really. I've been very conscious of having ANY music on when he's in and am constantly telling my kids to be quiet!

Hoping a nice large noisy family move in now! This street isn't really suitable for a single bloke - especially one that doesn't like noise!

[Enkopkaffetak]

OP I remember your post.. I think if you can get it linked then the responses may change a bit here. As your NDN was being unreasonable back then.

I hope for you , that you get a nice normal family living who has children same age as yours that become friends

[SheHasAWildHeart]

Tbh I'd prefer a single guy living near me than a family. On the left hand side of my house lives a widowed, elderly lady who is absolutely lovely and next to her is a middle aged couple. On my right hand side is a single elderly lady who is quiet as a mouse, and next to her is an older man and his grown up son. When I sit in the garden it's lovely and quiet, you can just hear birds - everyone looks out for each other, helping out each other. The only noise that ever disrupts is on sunny weekends when the kids from three doors down are in their garden making a racket. The only people who never say hello are this family. So I'd happily replace them with a single bloke.

[GingerbreadGingerbread]

Congratulations he's moving and you'll be rid of him! He sounds awful id be pleased.

[MangoMoon]

Please tell me your joking? I can't beleive how financially illiterate many people are so I'm not 100% sure.

Lol!
You may be more financially literate than some, but I wouldn't gloat for too long.
(Well, not until you can distinguish between your & you're, anyway...)

[Shizzlestix]

It's not worth moving for £12 grand after stamp duty and fees. I have no intention of selling my rental, but the identical one next door is for sale for £50 grand more than we paid last year. It's an an area where the first to see it buys it, at least last year, probably a bit different now. That's the kind of money that makes flipping a house worth it.

Bit obsessed, OP?

[sall74]

He might struggle to find a buyer, most lenders won't offer a mortgage on a property that has only been owned by the seller for 6 months.

[SheHasAWildHeart]

MangoMoon it is believe or beleive ? Am sure they'll be along soon with an excuse.

[RebeccaRochester]

Honey fizz...do what my mums old neighbours did (when we were a family of 5 living next door) install bookshelves if you can...and fill with books (although we also had bookshelves across the whole side of the room too) it was great for keeping the noise of neighbours from each other in a semi..(awful when they moved though, and new neighbours and we also had taken ours away)

[yougottheshining]

He needs to get away from the bodies and leave them behind. But before he does, he's got his eye on YOU.

[MangoMoon]

SheHas - I can't believe I missed that!!

I was so taken with the 'your'

[Lorelei76]

I remember your original thread
you even thought he was weird because he didn't change out of his suit immediately he got home

I don't know why you care so much, he hasn't done anything bad to you or your family other than a complaint about noise, which I think was fair enough and he did it politely....

£12k for a 4 month period of work sounds good to me. If I had those kinds of skills, I would do it.

I also hope you get a family next door because as a single flat dweller, I feel you are the kind of person who would constantly wonder where i was going, what I was up to, who my friends were...perhaps if you get a family more like yours, you'll be less suspicious for no reason! And I rather hope they are noisy....

[SonicSpotlight]

As lots of people have said, it's not a £12k profit. It's a possible £12k (if it sells for that) minus £1.5k for decorating, minus around 1.5% of the sale price for the estate agent, minus all the costs of buying the house originally (legal fees and stamp duty)...

I'd guess that he bought it just before the 5% stamp duty for buy to let came in and intended to rent it out to a lively family but has had a change in circumstances.

[ExasperatedAlmostAlways]

Do single people have to scout out exactly who lives in a street before moving? Then only move if there's no families and it's other singles who live there. What a strange comment. Op, you are far too over invested.

He could be moving for a load of reasons, decided to move in with a partner. Can't afford the repayments any longer. Feels the house is too big alone. Moving for a job. Moving in with ill parents. Doesn't like the street or neighbours. ......

[SpiceLinerandHoneyLove]

Sall minsinformation there.

[Lorelei76]

the other thing that strikes me is that someone might have given him some money towards a property - conditional on buying a property, so money he wouldn't get e.g. from a parent, unless he bought. Which would mean he'd walk away with more in his pocket IYSWIM. Conveyancing etc - he could be doing his own.

all sorts of possibilities.

Exasperated "Do single people have to scout out exactly who lives in a street before moving? Then only move if there's no families and it's other singles who live there"

sadly not the first time I've heard - on MN - about areas being "for families" and singletons being weird generally.

[SonicSpotlight]

Some areas are like that though. There are streets where the majority of people are over 65 and home owners or the majority are young professionals renting. I've lived in a street where people tended to move in as young couples without children and moved out when they'd had one child and were expecting a second. If the housing is very similar it can attract people with similar requirements.

[madhurjazz]

sadly not the first time I've heard - on MN - about areas being "for families" and singletons being weird generally.

There was a post once where several were calling a guy weird as he went out on walks without a dog

[2kids2dogsnosense]

We had a neighbour like that. Single bloke in his fifties, moved into a 3-bed house (which is his right) in a "family"street. He began almost at once to complain about kids playing in the street, even though they were little (3 - 8) and not of an age to kick footballs off his car or anything like that. There was a patch of council-owned grass between his garden (which had a 6 foot fence, I might add) and the next, and he got the council to dig it up and put two trees in because he didn't like having a little tent and a Wendy house erected on it. Obviously two trees made an ideal set of goalposts, so the kids started to play football there (with a beachball type ball, not a hard ball) and he then got the council take out the trees and put in three rose beds (nice and scratchy!) to stop them. He was constantly out "Stop doing this, stop doing that etc" and shouting abuse. He come out of the house and burst the kid's football which led to a confrontation with one of the mothers - he called her a useless mother and a lazy cow because she (apparently we all were) because we didn't take out kids to the park to play for 8 hours a day. (He was lucky her husband didn't take his head off - if he hadn't been an older bloke (60-ish. I don't think that's old, now ), i think it would have got physical. We were glad when he finally moved.

That particular patch of grass had been a godsend to us mama because we could almost all see what was happening on it. The street was a cul-de-sac, so very safe, and we could let comparatively young children go out and play with a bit of independence knowing that we could see everything that was happening. If anyone was upset or got bumped, one or more of us would be out there with a cuddle. We took picnics for them to eat in the tent and the Wendy house (the tent was blankets over a clothes horse - open both ends, not a real tent at all) and for years different groups of children had socialised and played there together. when the bigger ones came home from school and played footie on the road, we could see them purposefully sending the ball to the little ones so they could have a kick. It as lovely. As parents we had developed an unspoken but religiously adhered to rule that the only balls allowed we sponge balls or beach ball things, so we knew there would be no damage to property and no-one would ket hit in the face with a hard ball. It really was a joy seeing this group of kids - anywhere between 3/4 and 12 playing together in the street (of course, the little ones came in early, and the older ones got more grown-up play time, too).

The miserable git stopped there for years and ruined the atmosphere. Why he wanted to move into a street full of kids when he didn't like them, God alone knows.

[Lorelei76]

2kids, unless I missed something, your neighbour was not the same as OP neighbour at all! You can't compare one complaint about noise - bass of music, if I recall correctly - to what your neighbour did.

[Doggity]

I feel sorry for single men who just want to live somewhere. Poor man being judged for what he wears when watching the TV. Why all the "oh single man in a FAMILY area, what a scandal!"?!

[pippitysqueakity]

I wonder if people thought I was like this. I was a single woman in my 30s who moved into a 3bed house...alone... In a street which had loads of families with children.
When I moved out 3 years later I had two children and a husband, but they all took me by surprise.
I used to play a bit with neighbours kids,and I had two cats. Bet they all thought I was v weird.
(Did not do up house but did make profit on it)

[Lorelei76]

pippity "When I moved out 3 years later I had two children and a husband, but they all took me by surprise."

this kind of comment always makes me laugh - like one day you got home from work and they were there and jumped out shouting "surprise! - you own us now".

[pippitysqueakity]

😄

[SheHasAWildHeart]

2kids2dogsnosense where do you live that the council will put in trees and then cut them down and plant rose bushes, just at the request of one person? Someone keeps parking on the crossing on my street and the council & police keep ignoring it despite numerous letters, photographs, having their home address.

[TheDevilMadeMeDoIt]

I have absolutely nothing useful to add, but when I read the title of the thread I thought it was going to be some sort of political point being made by one of Theresa May's neighbours.

I'll get me coat.