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Original poster

To make an offer on a house with a LOUD neighbouring yappy dog

52 replies

Butterly · 25/09/2016 18:26

We're house hunting at the moment and saw a house yesterday that ticks most of the boxes. However...we were in the kitchen with the door open, then in the garden for ten minutes or so. A yapping dog in a neighbour's garden barked continuously and loudly for the whole time.

So, would you still make an offer on the house, hoping that it was a one-off, or would this put you off?

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SistersOfPercy · 25/09/2016 19:59

Nope.

I live next door to one. Eight hours constantly whilst she works.
Imagine a summer afternoon where you want to sit in the garden. Now add yap yap yap to that.
Imagine a cold winters evening, fire on, cup of tea and a book on the sofa. Yap yap yap.

tupperwareAARGGH · 25/09/2016 20:04

No, No, No barking dogs have ruined my enjoyment of my house and garden. Next doors barks constantly went on from 08:30 yesterday until gone 20:00. It was one of the reasons I changed my job as I was seriously sleep deprived from not being able to sleep after night shifts.

I have had to wake another neighbour (7 doors down so not quite neighbour!) up by banging on their door very loudly at midnight as their dogs were barking and had been for 4 hours and I could not sleep.

Its awful and I expect one of the reasons those people are moving.

dementedma · 25/09/2016 20:05

No, the yapping bastard wee dog next door does my head in.

EnriqueTheRingBearingLizard · 25/09/2016 20:19

Look, every property is going to have some compromise, you have to decide what kind of compromises you want to make. It could be road or aircraft noise, it could be parking issues (MN Gold for posting Grin) lack of space, lack of garden, poor transport, whatever.

You can ask us all if we'd buy or not, but it's personal because we don't know what other alternative properties are available, or how desperate you are to move. I wouldn't want to live near a noisy pet, but I'd accept it more than all of the above if that were the choice.

Nanny0gg · 25/09/2016 21:41

No. Had it in the past and it's hell.

Don't do it.

MoveOnTheCards · 25/09/2016 21:45

Not on your nelly! Neighbours of ours have recently got a dog and it's making a racket Every. Sodding. Night.

John4703 · 25/09/2016 21:47

If I bought it and moved in I'd get onto my local council and demand that they got their "noise enforcement officer" (or whatever they are called) to take action.

Local Councils do have people who will deal with noise and so let them speak to the dog owners.

PoptartPoptart · 25/09/2016 21:51

Please don't, you will regret it

LineyReborn · 25/09/2016 21:53

No.

But tell the sellers why, so they have some leverage against the yappy's owners should they need it.

phoenix1973 · 25/09/2016 21:55

No no no no no. You'll end up wishing terrible things on the dog and you won't be enjoying your back garden or any sleep.
I grew up next to such a house. Just don't.

AloraRyger · 25/09/2016 21:59

I wouldn't. We did although it wasn't barking when we viewed it. 7 years of misery listening to it 24/7 all weekend and 12 hours plus during the week. I nearly had a breakdown with it. Don't even contemplate it, especially with it barking the whole time you were there.

allthatnonsense · 25/09/2016 21:59

How old is the dog and how old are the neighbours?

DiegeticMuch · 25/09/2016 21:59

I agree with chatting to the other neighbour first, not least because if it transpires that Yappy is elderly, the problem will go away fairly soon.

You have recourse to the council as well. Also, if the dog is being neglected ie shut outside for ages in all weathers, you could call the RSPCA.

HarryPottersMagicWand · 25/09/2016 22:00

Nope. Would be my idea of hell. I hate neighbour noise at the best of times but a permanently yapping dog would drive absolutely mad.

TotalConfucius · 25/09/2016 22:13

I'm starting to think I have dozens of sock puppets. There can't be that many of us with nasty bastard yapping dogs living next door! When dear Mitzy next door starts up I post a photo of my own two sleeping dogs onto our local Facebook group just to prove its nothing to do with us.
Don't do it OP, it gets inside your head after a few hours let alone a few days, weeks, months. Every nerve does a wince with every bark.

MrsFezziwig · 25/09/2016 22:14

No. I have one next door and when I move will definitely be lurking outside any potential new home to make sure there is no barking dog in the vicinity. Oddly, the neighbours on the other side also have a dog which I have hardly ever heard.

AlmaMartyr · 25/09/2016 22:17

No, don't do it. Next door's dog barks a bit and it drives me insane. Luckily it's not too often but I just couldn't cope with it regularly.

WetsTheFinger · 25/09/2016 22:19

OP are you in the north east?

Cuppaand2biscuits · 25/09/2016 22:22

No, both my mum and my brother live next door to barking dogs. The family next door to my mum sometimes leave theirs overnight and it yaps all night long so my mum and dad can't sleep but still need to get up for work.

notausernumber · 25/09/2016 22:43

Blimey. How horrible for you all Sad

I have a dog and go to great lengths to ensure there's no barking. I couldn't put in an offer on this house op. I'd be looking for it to fail.

Definitely feedback to estate agent though.

Original poster
Butterly · 25/09/2016 23:16

I'm amazed at how many people experience this problem. I'd totally forgotten that our first house (25 yrs ago - I must have blanked it out of my memory!) had a barking dog next door and it did drive me crazy. We complained to the council and then had the neighbour knocking on the door, demanding to know if we were the ones who'd complained! I have reminded dh of this.

For me, noise is a real problem, more so than parking issues or small garden, so it looks like this won't be my dream house.

(WetsTheFinger - not in the NE, down in SE.)

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MidniteScribbler · 25/09/2016 23:33

No way. My neighbours over the road have got themselves a new dog and it goes all day. Drives me insane. I have 7 dogs and they barely make a sound, and I'm always paranoid that someone will complain to the council about the one over the road and I'll get the blame.

TheNoodlesIncident · 25/09/2016 23:41

Barky dog somewhere in the neighbourhood is bad enough; right next door would be hell.

One of our neighbours has an aviary with lovebirds or sommat. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. Chirp chirp. ALL. DAY. LONG.

tapdancingmum · 25/09/2016 23:48

I wonder if this is a house down my road. Been up for sale for a little while and there is a dog next door. I live diagonally to both houses and I can hear it if I am out in the front of my house. Really wide cul de sac so houses are not on top of each other and I always think that I am glad I don't live next door to it cos if I can hear it from here how loud must it be next door. I don't hear if after about 6ish when the household is back so think it barks through loneliness. They also have a stack of land rovers in various states of repair in their drive but it is a nice road to live down.

maz210 · 25/09/2016 23:56

Our newest neighbours brought a yappy dog with them when they moved in. It was slightly irritating at first but I can honestly say I don't even notice it now.

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