To think this is the height of neighbour nosiness?

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Doing work on my new place (flat), I currently don't live there. The workman parked his van blocking one of my neighbours.

She came over to ask him to move (obviously fine as he shouldn't have obstructed her). She then asked if she could have a look around at the work that had been done to the place so far.

Aibu to think she's a nosey busy body?

Nope, just taking an interest surely?.... She's lives near the house and interested in its transformation.

There's an old barn which has been recently converted in to a beautiful house. I'd love to see how it looks inside.
I guess this is why programmes such as grand designs do so well, because people are interested

Ridiculously nosy

Sorry, the barn overlooks my house so I have been watching the tranformation over the past 2years.

Did he let her in? I think it is bad manners of her asking a workman.

I guess that because you don't live there it doesn't feel to her like she is asking to nose around your personal space. If it was your home, I don't think she would have asked.

I don't think the builder should say yes though, if he did, because it isn't his house.

Scarcely the height of nosiness. That would be to have a look round if you were living there! I think it's ok- if none of your stuff is there it's not too bad is it? Just think you could be a bit neighbourly yourself and invite her to have a look. How's that for a radical idea?

Nosy? Yes. Would it bother me? Not at all.

People are interested in how homes are adapted and made over. I doubt she asked because she was so interested in you, more that she was looking for ideas of what can be done.

It took me 2 years to do our house up. The old lady across the road was desperate to look and I loved showing her round.
YABU

It's a bit nosy, but reasonably so.

Builder is definitely BU for blocking her in.

Just think you could be a bit neighbourly yourself and invite her to have a look. How's that for a radical idea?

I've never even seen her. I'd find it rather odd to just go knock on her door and say "Hi I know you don't know me but come look at my new kitchen!!"

Maybe she wanted to check out his work in case she wanted to get him to do some work for her.

I am really surprised that most of you would have no issue with a stranger poking around your house when you weren't there.

elvis yours is a different situation. You knew your neighbour for 2 years before and you were there to show her around. She didn't come over when you were knew and ask someone who doesn't live there to show her around.

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Also I might not live there yet but I do have a lot of my things moved in.

I would find it very bizarre.

Yes, it is very nosy. We have a neighbour that not only asks this but asks me who is visiting us (no one he would bloody know), where we went to that morning, and asks my kids personal questions about us ("What do your parents do in their spare time?"). His need to know every bloody thing about us is doing my head in! I now actively avoid him, which I feel a bit bad about, but I hate being interrogated.

I think it is possibly nosy but I know, hand on heart, that I would probably do the same and ask to see around. I love looking at what people are doing to their houses. I am nosy. I know I am.

It's rude. I hope the workman told her no. I'd be fuming if some stranger was wandering round my home.

Wow. No way! I can't believe that anyone thinks this is ok. If she wants to have a look,she should ask you,not the bloody builder! I hope he said no?

So was she let in?

No he didn't, he said I would be over at the weekend so she could ask me then.

Almost all the identical houses on our street has been renovated/ developed I love seeing what our Neighbours have done to them and have let them see ours if they've asked.

Definitely nosey. Is it a leasehold property? If so she could have been looking for breaches of the covenants.

I certainly wouldn't want a stranger in my property. No way. The fact she lives next door is irrelevant to me. If this doesn't bother some people, that's fine, but that is not how I feel. I can't even imagine asking to do such a thing.