To ask my neighbour to move their trampoline slightly out of sight when I have viewers round to my house?

[Fimbo]

Trying to sell my house at the moment, although we are detached we are very very close to our neighbours house. The only thing really separating us from the trampoline is a 6ft fence. When you look out of the back bedrooms all you see is this looming big trampoline (gardens are quite small). AIBU?

I have old neighbours - in their seventies - who do Hyacinth Bouquet afternoon white wine sessions. Thankfully sans trampoline, so far.

hey fimbo dont worry bout the trampoline i wouldn't move mine btw but whats wrong with it? i moved from norfolk in november and now in kent where abouts are you? yes i miss norfolk!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fantastic
we have trampoline with net in quite a small garden
Houses on both sides are empty...
hopefully it will put off any potential buyers and we will have no neighbours for another summer...

must get the kids bouncing whenever there is a viewing. ha ha ha

Bouncing on a trampoline quickly uses up energy - or so I've found - I can't imagine kids bouncing for hours at a time - I'm knackered after 5 minutes

So AIBU or not?

The best way to describe the setting is to imagine you are in a pub - the only thing separating you, whilst ordering drinks from the bar staff is the bar. Its that kind of a distance from my house to theirs. The trampoline takes up the whole of the neighbours garden. There is no privacy. If you have a big garden like GDG then yes there is no problem.

If it was moved ever so slightly towards their other neighbours fence then it wouldn't be so in your face, on my side iyswim. I do get on well with them and I am sure they would move it if I asked but I think it is a bit cheeky if I am honest.

Oooh. We've got a 14ft trampoline too, should I conduct my houseviewings from there. So the viewers can bounce and check out the roof . Cunning plan. Perhaps I should throw it in for free (got it off freecycle anyway) as an incentive.

Fimbo, i am going to go against the grain here and say if you get on well with them, and you can ask nicely, say you know it is cheeky and you haven't got a problem yourself.. but would they mind... because there has been some feedback re a lack of privacy in your garden.

i am sure they will understand. all depends on how you ask.

it's not like you barely know them and are going to ask all snooty like. you sound reasonable to me.

see if i was them and i liked you i'd want you to get the best price. the converse is also true, as my new neighbours found to their delight when the fact that i'd sabotaged the hallway during viewings by making it look like a shitpile meant they got £5 grand off the price of the flat. by the time they moved in it was pristine again. Huh-ated the woman selling, she'd only visited our elderly neighbour once and argued with him the whole time then she inherited everything but refused to do repairs that he'd promised to do. she said it was up to the new people to pay so i, er, saved them the money out of the house price...

Right Beryl never mentioned the trampoline. But I had a buy to let viewer round a few minutes ago and the sodding trampoline was the first thing they mentioned when they looked out the window. Arrrghhh!!

I may have to bite the bullet and ask them to move it - they maneouvre it round anyway when they need to cut the grass and its never in the same position twice.

I honestly would ask them.

Just in an "I know it's cheeky, and I'll help you do it, and here's a bottle of wine, you lovely folk" kind of way.

Maybe Beryl will put in an offer and you wont need to worry.

However think Hunker is right, if you approach them in a v friendly manner proffering booze they are bound be to reasonable about it. If not, well sod it you are moving anyway...

I would ask them, as a proud owner of one of these boingy things, i wouldn't dream of placing it next to my neighbours fence. I think its really quite intrusive.

We haven't got one but our neighbour has, and I quite like the noise of all the children laughing and having fun on it. It wouldn't stop me buying a house if I really liked everything else about it.

OMG-Beryl & Dick (!) have put an offer in our house-its too low and they still have to sell their own, but obviously the trampoline didn't put them off!!!

ROFL

Beryl and Dick...

See, I knew Beryl would come through! Now, Phil and Kirsty would say, you have to keep your nerve (they are chancers).

They're going to install a hot tub and a bar. And have parties........

Yet another ZOMBIE !!!

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I’d ask politely in a way that makes it obvious you won’t be offended if they say no.

Wtf is going on today??