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to think I do not have a communal washing line

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helpconfused · 17/05/2018 13:47

So I came back from the food shop on Monday lunchtime and looked out of the patio doors to see a pair of boxer shorts, mens jogging bottoms and a shirt on my line in my back garden mixed in with my towels and bedding that I had earlier put out!
I stood for a while pondering (actually wondering WTF was going on!)
then went to the car to unload the shopping. My NDN came out (miserable B) and said 'Why aren't you at work'. I replied saying I don't work Mondays, he said 'Oh I thought you were when you went out early this morning'. Then the penny dropped. I asked if it was his washing on my line, he said it was and he had jumped over the wall to hang it up, could I check it was dry and if not 'redress it' (he means peg it up properly upon questioning). I was gobsmacked.
When I told him I had a higher fence and side gate being put up in a few weeks he wasn't very pleased. I wonder how long he has been using my bloody line??!!

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pictish · 20/05/2018 12:49

Would you? What a decent person you are. That’s not weird as fuck, malicious or petty at all.

pictish · 20/05/2018 12:52

I know a quality I like in a neighbour is for them to deliberately sabotage my belongings for no good reason other than sheer spite.

agedknees · 20/05/2018 13:46

Buy the hottest chilli you can get. Cut it and rub it all over his clothes. Give dry clothes back to cf ndn.

Whereismumhiding2 · 20/05/2018 13:55

Surely the simplest thing to do is to send a cease and desist letter ? Then add trelis & plant or pot some climbers.

BearsDontDigOnDancing · 20/05/2018 14:00

QueenofmyPrinces Fri 18-May-18 12:43:01
I’ve got their landlords number.....I’m so tempted to send him this photo and get
him to tell his residents to stop drying their clothes on our fence!!!

Ok, they are in the wrong and it is cheeky, but this is why I hate renting. If they owned you would go round and talk to them, or do as you have done and chuck them back over. But they rent so you will tell on them to the Landlord.

Apparently our next door neighbours have our Landlord's number as they kept an eye on the house when it was empty one time. And they are odd. We were having a party for DD's birthday a couple of years ago, maybe 5 or 6 kids around on a Saturday afternoon. It was a little loud with kids, but it lasted 2 hours and was a one time thing in the 4 years we had lived here.

A house a few doors down must have been having a bonfire or something as smoke started coming over from their house over next door and then to us. The woman from next door came marching round, banged on my door and said "Is THAT smoke anything to do with you?" Not sure how she thought that, as it was coming from the other side of their house, but she was making a point about the party.

Our landlord has mentioned that they have txt him before, not saying anything bad, but more along the lines of informing him we are fine. As if we need keeping an eye on like children. I find it insulting tbh.

QueenofmyPrinces · 20/05/2018 14:10

The family that have moved in have got a previous reputation of being quite disruptive and just before they arrived the Landlord himself gave us his mobile number and said to please get in touch with him if they cause any problems. FWIW I didn’t contact the landlord, I didn’t really think it required something so drastic.

There are other issues with this family that have riled us up and they have also wound up other people who live on the crescent too. They are generally just quite rude with little consideration for others. This washing on the fence incident is just the latest in the line of obnoxious behaviours.

Mummyoflittledragon · 20/05/2018 14:21

Bears
Im a ll. I use an agent. Your neighbours are Twats. Keeping an eye on you is wrong. Keeping an eye on the house is ok if say if you’re away and burgled or informing the ll if they noticed you trashing it - eg deliberately smashing up the windows. I’d complain to your ll if it they come to you all guns blazing again. You have the right to “quiet enjoyment” of your home.

Hopeful88 · 20/05/2018 21:15

I would not hang my washing over a shared fence, it is rude and inconsiderate. You cant use other people's gardens without asking it's not on.

SistersOfPercy · 20/05/2018 21:48

@siwel123 I think you need to read up on garden law. Boundaries may be shared but the fence will remain the property of the person who paid for it.
Without the owners permission you cannot paint it, fix anything to it or throw anything over it.

siwel123 · 20/05/2018 21:51

Well yes it remains the property of the owner but in my case we split costs so it is both ours and we both decide what to paint it etc.

I know it is bloody rude to hang something on it, that's what I said...

Oldraver · 20/05/2018 22:07

Just print out a still from the film and pop it through their door.

This is crying out for a Moonpig Christmas Card

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 21/05/2018 10:40

😂

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