To ask wether itvwukd put you off buying a house if it was rented next door (attatched) and it had history of high turnover?

[ginorwine]

Sorry to do second post about moving house issues.
We had planned to buy a house and now have a number of doubts about doing so.
My dh had planned this as out final move and wanted peace and quiet . Lovely garden etc and all done up . Im not as keen on atea.
Anyway since he has discovered that it is trntrd next door he is not keen especially has apparently had a high number of changes i tenants . ( I wdnt be concerned if it was longer term )
What would your concerns be , if any ?
Thanks .

That it's rented wouldn't bother me. That it has a high turnover of tenants would., unless it's a property marketed to young singles.

It would concern me, although having said that the rental house with high turnover a few doors down has only ever had families with children - still can't figure out why turnover is so high to be honest.

But you also mentioned having reservations about the area as well as DH's concerns about next door being a rental?

This isn't the house for you. Too many doubts. And location is everything, so if you're not sure about the area you need to run a mile. Trust me (voice of bitter experience).

I knew there were a lot of snobs on mumsnet but fuck me this thread is quite upsetting. Hope our neighbours don't view us in the same way as we are renting scumbags too.

The complaint about the big new development might actually be because it will overload all the facilities in the area and cause flooding. Developers will care about neither of these things.

Meanwhile am cynically amused to see that right on, we love everybody mn hates tenants as much as landlords.

As noted, a problem tenant can be removed, although remember how long it takes due to the deliberately slow legal process. A problem owner is going nowhere.

I own my house and the two houses either side of me are rented. It never crossed my mind to view this as a problem but then again I am not a giant snob.

Interestingly one of these houses has had a very high turnover of tenants. The reason being? The landlord is totally awful, never fixes anything & all the tenants have got fed up & moved out.

Even if your purchase your house OP and you have owner occupiers each side there is nothing to say they won't sell up to a BTL or rent the property out themselves.

The complaint about the big new development might actually be because it will overload all the facilities in the area and cause flooding.

No, the thrust of the campaign here is about the unsightliness.

Maybe there is a case for caution due to flooding (although it's at the top of a darn great hill so i doubt it) and it probably aught to have support projects to go alongside it, such as a primary school and access to a GP practice, but the NIMBYs round here certainly aren't even pretending to be wringing their hands about any of that. There's no mention of welfare beyond their own view being spoilt. At least they're honest i guess.

It isn't all about people being snobs. It sounds to me as though a lot of people are basing their responses on their own stressful experiences.

FWIW, I live next door to someone who rents out her basement apartment to tenants on short term lets. My neighbour is lovely and we get on well. HOWEVER - we have a shared drive. Neighbour doesn't drive so her tenant uses it. Every single time there is a new tenant (and there have been three in the last 6 months) we have a week or so of not being able to park as they park their cars too far over. I have two small children and nowhere else to park safely or close to my home. It is immensely frustrating. One tenant even said to DH that she was sorry, she's just a crap driver! Well, don't get such a bloody big car then, idiot! And stop reversing into my fence - you're a liability! Yes, it's not the end of the world, but after a day at work, the last thing I want to do is drive around in the dark looking for street parking as I can't get into my own drive due to someone's selfishness. We had no problem with the previous owner who used the space, which sort of does support the theory that tenants care less. That doesn't make me a snob, by the way. That's just my own (non-scientific) experience playing out.

Wouldn't bother me - but I've been a flat-dwelling Londoner for years, you don't really get to pick and choose your neighbours. I can see your worry, but ultimately you could buy another house where all neighbouring houses were owned, only for that to change within months if your neighbours decided to sell up and their houses were bought by landlords.

I could write a reverse of this and it is the exact reason viewers are not "buyers" of my house! I hate my neighbours though, nothing to do with the renting, more to do with the loud and wordy sex!

laiste off topic but it isnt just the new development that is at risk of flooding, and all locals will be affected if there are no school or gp places. these arguments cut no ice (way too obvious) so your 'nimbys' may be trying one that might even though it seems less important.

I was not meaning to be a snob
It was more about the desire for settled life and neighbours . We have a rented house next door to us now . It was more about the high turnover and not knowing who wd be next door next !

No, didn't bother me at all. The house next door was rented out to students when I moved into mine and we all got on great. I didn't mind the smell of canabis wafting over the back fence and they put up with my new rescue dog barking.

It's always worth remembering - the checks and references needed are often related to people's previous living/residential history when renting as opposed to buying which is only based on financial circumstances? Those privately renting in some areas are probably paying out far more monthly than your mortgage?
This negative attitude towards people who work hard and pay their monthly direct debit to a rental agency as opposed to a bank.... is frightening and old fashioned, in an age where housing is being bought to let by those who want it for a pension?!
It baffles me.... I've been both a home owner and a renter and as far as I'm concerned it's my family's home, which I want to be well looked after and safe. Where the money goes is irrelevant.... I'm sure I can't be the only one?
I wouldn't know who's house is bought or rented on my very suburban and (stupidly) expensive road... nor do I need to.

Laise
I agree that people objecting to that housing provision seems really wrong !

I guess this is what my neighbours think about me, since I am a scummy renter with a child and a cat. Although I am careful to keep noise to a minimum, no loud music/tv, nothing which generates noise against adjoining walls - including DD, who is not permitted to shout/scream inside or outside.

Meanwhile, my (all homeowner neighbours) throw regular street parties - for just themselves, send their dogs into my front garden to toilet, park all over the road, including over and on my driveway, send their young children out to play unsupervised on petrol-driven go karts -on my drive and front garden ("you could ask them not to but they probably still would"), blast music out of windows at any hours of the night and day, and fly tip garden waste over my fence.

At least with renters you can complain to a landlord!

Maybe the people selling the house you are looking at are really unpleasant neighbours so anyone renting next door doesn't stay long because of awful neighbours.

The house next door to me is rented. I would love a change of tenants because the current tenant is a young man who is probably illegally subletting his mother's council tenancy now that he is an adult (when we moved in the mother was a single mother of a teenaged boy, who is now the young man).

He smokes drugs, is awake all night being loud with his mates and a young woman who I suspect is the mother of his DCs comes round in the middle of the night to yell at him about how much of a shit dad he is. The law of averages suggests that most new tenants would be a better neighbour than him.

I'm a renter and we left our first rental because our neighbours, who owned their own home, were a nightmare. They were a middle aged/elderly couple and they made our lives hell, including but not limited to; complaining to our letting agent that we had rats when in fact it was their fucking giant bird feeder attracting them, calling my DH a cunt in front of our then 3-yo and the final straw being threatening my 2-yo. We still have no idea what we did to them and our other neighbours were absolutely lovely so it obviously wasn't us! I could write a thread, I really could.

So perhaps there's a high turnover of tenants because the current owner of the house you're buying is a dickhead because that's not just an exclusive trait in tenants