Children in child-free complex - WIBU?

[Iltavilli]

We live in a complex of flats where children are not allowed to live. A neighbour (not sure which) has regular visitors who bring children. One of the children is a toddler and rings our entry system bell as it is the lowest on the pad. They allow him to do this and simply say “sorry it’s a child”, they don’t discourage his behaviour. They also allow the children to play around the meticulously maintained and non-child-friendly landscaped gardens. This is a “naice” area, and we pay a premium to live in a child-free complex. AIBU to complain?

Because selling an item of property isn’t really a government regulated activity. I can sell my car or jewellery to pretty much anyone I want to, ditto my house. I don’t expect government intervention if I don’t give the entire community equal access to make it fair.
Housing has never been “broadly available to all people”, lots of people will not be able to afford exactly what they want. I don’t have to reduce my asking price to make it accessible to everybody.

Well, of course, price is always going to be a relevant factor in whether housing is available, but one's race or sex or family status shouldn't be.

If I was selling a much loved classic car, and one offer was from an 18 year old whom I suspected wanted it for drag racing.
Would I be discriminating against him if I chose to sell it to a older collector who I knew would cherish it instead?
Free will.
If I choose to accept an offer for my house from a retired gardener who I know will maintain my beautiful garden, rather than the family of 7 whom I suspect will turn it into a child friendly playground instead, am I breaking any law, or is it my own damn business?

I cannot understand why people can't see the appeal of child free spaces. Might not be your thing, fine, but we don't all like the same thing.

And I say this as a heavily pregnant mother of a toddler. I worship my daughter and expect to feel the same about his next one. However, late next summer, when this in utero baby is old enough myself and DH will be taking a short break away (1/2 nights) whilst the children have a sleepover with Grandma and Grandad (who do not live in a child free area). We will, most definitely, be booking a child free complex to stay in. Why wouldn't we?

I can completely understand why the OP would want to (and pays to!) live in a child free complex. Why not?!

OP I would contact your management company and ask them to deal with it, and also have a polite word with the owner of the offending home.

There would be no need for retirement villages or child free blocks if children behaved with respect towards others. It's a parenting issue, really. The parents of the toddler in the op are a perfect illustration of this.

There are far too many people who are anti-social themselves and therefore don't set a good example to their children on how to behae, who then grow up and fail to set a good example to their kids, and thus it proliferates.

'Tis society which is at fault, yer honour.

Jesus Terry are you always so
Interested in dissecting the minutiae of everything and examining it upside down for it's PC credentials that you've actually forgotten the human beings at the heart of these things. Who wants to live in a cold beaurocratic Society where all the boxes have been ticked but individual needs haven't been taken into account? Chilly and lacking in imagination and empathy. Brrrrr!

Maybe the people in the complex are past child bearing age. Or maybe they use contraception? It's not that complicated surely?!

I can totally see the appeal of a child free complex (I say that as a parent)