Neighbours for sale sign

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I've woken up this morning to our neighbours for sale sign in our garden and I'm a bit pissed off about it.

I'll set the scene. Row of 4 houses we're the end terrace. Houses in the middle of the row have no front garden just their drive. We have a long front garden which borders their drive.
Neighbours house was put up for sale during the week and today the for sale sign has been erected in our garden. Granted it's only about 6inches from the boundary but it's there.
It's pretty damn windy here today and already the sign is at a jaunty angle and our cars will be hit it it blows down.

No one has asked us if the sign could go there. Am I being petty about this? DH is telling me to get over it but it's annoying me every time I see it!

YANBU

I would call the agents and demand they remove it immediately.

They've probably just put it in the wrong garden. Ring the estate agents and ask them to come back and move it. Handily you probably have their contact number on a big sign in your garden .

You could phone the estate agents and ask them to get it taken down. Say very politely that they obviously didn't realise they had put it in the wrong garden (idiots) and you would like it moved.

They can't argue with you.

YANBU. Take it down and put it on their drive.

Why would your neighbours want it in your garden? Call the agents.

They need one of the signs that attach to the house.

Wouldn't it damage your cars even of it blew away from 6 inches across into their drive?

They have either put it in the wrong house in worrier or put it there as neighbour doesn't have any soft ground by the sounds of it so it's easier to use yours. Either way it's unlikely to be your neighbours fault. I would ring the agents and assume they have put it up in error and ask for it to be removed today. If they say they can't explain if it's not moved you will remove it and take it to the tip. That might get them going. It might not mind. When we took our old house off the market the fit sale sign was just left by the old agents.

Sell your house?

Alternatively tell them you are prepared to allow the sign to stay on your land with an arrow pointing to the correct house but you charge £100 per day, payable in advance.

It would have been courteous to ask prior to erecting the sign in your property.
Problem may be that you are going to be disturbed by viewing prospective buyers (thinking it's your property for sale). If this does happen, speak to Estate Agent - request them to remove the sign.
If you're concerned about the sign damaging your cars perhaps take a few photographs?

Please don’t ring the agents, you’re not their client. Why not just speak to the neighbours, tell them it’s misleading as people will think it’s your house on the market and ask them to get the agents to move it.

I assume it's been put in because they don't want it attached to their house and thats the only option they have due to the set up.

Thankfully it's obvious which house is for sale due to it being a different style of house so no one will be chapping our door.

DH is saying to just leave it and not to cause any bad feeling.

Why would someone start a thread on the internet instead of ringing the agents and asking them to come and collect it.

It's the obvious thing to do. Can people just not make decisions like this for themselves?

Oh sorry OP, I see it's your dh causing the problem here not you.

I should think the agents just put it there because it's easier for them than attaching it to the house. I massively doubt your neighbours have anything to do with it.

Plus, they're selling their house so why would they care if the board's attached to it.

We had similar to this,ring the agent and tell them to move it

I read it as you selling your neighbours

He's all "it's nice to be nice" and " it's not doing any harm"
I don't particularly want to be that shitty neighbour but I also think we should've at least been asked if it was ok.

Pull it down and throw it through your neighbours window.

Can you take a picture or drawer one for us to get a better idea?

It won't be your neighbours, it will be the agent, or even their board man who decided where to put it. Just ring the agent and ask them to move it, and also check they have taken new photos with it in the new position. Otherwise you're going to get casual househunters cruising past your house.

Also take it down, that way they will deal with it quicker.

The agent won't want to piss you off, you might be a potential vendor one day.

6 inches? Are you really that bothered? If you are then despite you not being the client I would phone the agent and ask them to remove their property from yours.

Take it down and put it on their doorstep.

Job done.

If it goes back up, phone the estate agent.