'supported living for challenging youngsters' being built next door.

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NC for this as could be outing. This is more of a WWYD really. I am at risk of sounding like a right NIMBY and I hate that its bringing this out in me but...
I am a single parent about to move to a new house. Building work has started on a 'supported living for challenging youngsters' development right next door.
Now, I have lived in some of the most gang-riven areas in the country without a thought but in my old age and with a child I admit I am worried about crime, drugs and ability to sell house on. I love the house and everything else is good.
WWYD? Still proceed with the purchase?

This is a genuine post, I don't have many people to discuss this with and I have never worried about house values etc in my life! I am genuinely surprised at my reaction to this.

I think the reaction from all the previous posters would suggest that resale will be an issue.

I think opinion is pretty unanimous OP.

I would pull out too. A house purchase is too big a deal to gamble with.

You need to consider if you need to sell, so unless you absolutely love the house I'd pull out.

I would not buy it for the simple reason I think it would be hard to sell on

I'm currently watching a programme and the silly reason people wont buy a house for (mismatched furniture ?), I wouldn't take take the risk

I wouldn't. Too many unknowns, and if you have a bad experience, then selling could be impossible.

Don't do it. A similar development has been built opposite me, and whilst 90% of the time it isn't an issue, the other 10% is horrendous.

I live opposite a Pupil Referral Unit attached to a school. It's very quiet, the kids can't come out at lunch. You see the odd teen having a sly fag on the way in/out.

But actual accommodation for them is different. I wouldn't risk it.

I would find that even when there weren't issues, I'd be worrying about when they'd start up again. Not a relaxing frame of mind to be in - for me that would be the case anyway. You can do a search on how many complaints there have been to the police - I did that & it was a massive dealbreaker for me when buying my last house.

Pull out and don't feel guilty about it. It's not like you're trying to stop it being built.

You can do a search on how many complaints there have been to the police - I did that & it was a massive dealbreaker for me when buying my last house.

The thing is the OP can't, because the place is only just being built.

This is mainly what would worry me, otherwise I would be knocking on doors/scouring the internet and doing as much research into the place as I could, before deciding whether to buy or not.

I think Yabu, because these young people have to live somewhere.

Nope nope nope. Pull out.

I would be pulling out if I were you and do not think you are being unreasonable at all. Yes these people have to live somewhere but if you can possibly avoid it why put yourself through the grief. You will have a lot of problems trying to sell the house on.

I'd absolutly be pulling out. You can barely walk past a similar residence in my town without someone trying to spit at you from their window. And I don't live in a 'bad' area. Police there on a weekly basis and anti social behavior. People behaving in such a way are frequently kicked out only to be replaced by someone similar. It's been there 5 years or so now but it's been like this since day one unfortunately.

So as a house purchase? Absolutely not.

I worked in Supporting Living accommodation for homeless young people for many years and most of them are lovely and all are no more risk whatsoever to you and your children than any other neighbour could be. These young people do need somewhere to live.

However, I would not buy a property adjacent to a supported living complex just as I would not buy one next to student accommodation at a university.

Teenagers are teenagers and whilst we love them they can be down right selfish and when living in a group noise, mess and loitering outside was a constant problem. The workers tried our hardest but are caught between a rock and a hard place of trying to consider the neighbours and accepting this is a young persons home and they have certain rights as well.

Having said that I would live next door if everything else was perfect or if my choices were limited. The house next door to me was turned into emergency accommodation for homeless families for 10 years and we only had 2 or 3 incidents in that time. I had lived there for 20 years and did not want to move. Where ever you live you can get nightmare neighbours but I am not sure I would buy a property there if I had a reasonable option.

Too much of a risk IMO. If it had already been built you'd be able to see for yourself what it's like, see what the impact is on house prices on the road but it's all unknown at the moment.

I wouldn't buy the house either, due to the power of the unknown.

Everything might be fine, you could buy the house & live very happily in it for 20 years with no issue. Or it might be horrendous, your child might spend years not being allowed outside to play due to your concerns for their safety or what they might find & you might end up losing thousands of £s on the resale value. The reality is likely to be somewhere between the two of course, but exactly where can't be known yet.

It would be different if either you were renting - and therefore able to move on without needing to wait for a Buyer - or if the house next door was already in situ and any effect on the surrounding community already known.

Of course, troubled young people need somewhere safe and supported to live. Of course they do & I support projects such as these completely.

That doesn't mean I'd think it sensible to buy a house next door to one knowing very well that the value and saleability is likely to be adversely affected.

I wouldn't buy it

I wouldn't buy the house either.

It's just too uncertain - it might be absolutely fine, but it might be an complete nightmare. I guess a lot depends on what kind of challenging youngsters it's aimed at. No way of knowing which scenario it is until it's up and running.

It'd be an entirely different question if it was an established home that you were able to research properly.

I'm the mother of a daughter with severe LD who lives with three other girls in a large house, with 24/7 care. All of them have challenging behaviour of some sort - but nothing that would interfere with neighbours in any way. (Things like non-cooperation in everyday things like bathing - eating tidily - think bumper bargain size toddler) Not really purposefully stroppy challenging behaviour, just pretty challenging patience wise for a carer. I give this level of detail to demonstrate that I do have some experience with attitudes towards people who have behavioural problems. I'm disappointed with myself for saying it, but I would find another house.

I wonder why the current owners want to sell?

Too many unknowns and really possibility of resale issue - so I'd walk away.

Having problem neighbours is difficult as you never get away from it - it's possible that it could all be fine but at the minute there is no past data to go on so impossible to judge.

Having run many challenging LAC homes I wouldn't move in.

Not a chance OP. Run for the hills.

Around the corner from where I live, 2 minutes away, is a halfway house for substance addicts. They're quiet 75% of the time, but they're not allowed to take alcohol into the accommodation, so instead they sit and drink in the street, and in front of the apartment blocks. Most of the time, they drink until they get into a fight, throw up, or pass out. I walk past at least 2 of the longer term residents every day on the school run, and they're usually blotto on the pavement. Almost every house/flat in the immediate vicinity is on the market, and not one has been sold in over a year - that's around 10 houses. I'm glad we don't own our house, in all honesty.