Asking estate agent to remove pic of my home from neighbours listing

[DaughterOfEvening]

Just that. My house is not joined to the neighbour, quite separate. There is an aerial shot where you can even see into my child’s bedroom. Another “arty type” shot which includes most of the front of my home as well as neighbour.

Relevant background is that I had my home removed from google Streetview a few years back for a very good reason. The whole of my property is blurred out from all angles when you try to view it on google.

The estate agent was co-operative, if a little bewildered as to why I would ask for the photos to be cropped to remove a house that they were not marketing. The cropped pics would not impact on how the neighbour’s house looks.

The neighbour has just hammered on my door asking why I’m interfering with the sale of their home. My answer was that I don’t want pics of my home visible online. They may or may not be aware of my historical reasons for this.

Dunno really. YABU because I cant judge because I dont know the reason for you being so precious about it. You're obviously not going to tell us the reason because its outing so kind of a pointless thread. Glad its sorted though I guess.

Tell them to wind there neck in, you are entitled to privacy.

*their neck oops!

You could have avoided the whole thing with cunt bunting....they would crop your house out with that flapping (excuse the pun) away!

What SpanglyPop said. How can we judge if you ABU without knowing the background to why you are seemingly so precious about your house not being in the marketing photo?

Yanbu.

I'm assuming you have a good reason for the subterfuge.

Ooooo following on the off chance op discloses why her house is secret.

The neighbour has just hammered on my door asking why I’m interfering with the sale of their home.

Why do they think it has any impact on the sale of their house? We bought a new house recently and none of the ones we viewed were because we thought the neighbour’s house looked nice in the pictures. As PP have said it’s hard to know if you’re being unreasonable, but I think your neighbours are being a bit unreasonable to care either way.

My neighbours listed their house for sale.

All well and good except they used the front of our house for the photo!

Really weird. Our houses don’t look alike. There’s admittedly doesn’t have much kerb appeal.

We had people driving slowly by staring in before we copped on.

I mean, I don’t get it! 🤷🏻‍♀️

We got them to remove it to stop the aforementioned staring.

If you had it removed off a site before, for very good reason then im going to say YANBU. You're entitled to your privacy so ignore your neighbour.

What will you do if you ever need to put your home up for sale?

Doesn’t matter if it’s a trivial, precious reason or a big, serious one. They aren’t selling OP’s house, OP has the right not to have their house in the photos.

I’m not a regular poster but the background is that something terrible happened to my family. I’ve discussed it on here before. There was some press & social media intrusion. The Streetview pic also clearly showed the inside of my home.

Yanbu. Tell the neighbour they can’t use photos of your home to sell their home, and that cropping their photos doesn’t impact on their sale at all.

Just ignore them. You’ve done what you needed to do.

Also if the house is for sale they probably won’t be there for much longer so falling out with them doesn’t really matter!

I would like some cunt bunting. Where does one find such tomfoolery?

No, not unreasonable at all.

You're entitled to your privacy and it doesn't impact on the sale of your neighbours home. That some images depict the inside of your home is an invasion and totally unnecessary.

Your neighbour is being unreasonable however, so it's probably a good job they're moving.

You say that your neighbours may be aware of the reason - I suspect from their reaction that they are not.

They should not have been confrontational and you are under no obligation whatsoever to explain, but it may help neighbourly relations if you did.

I'm glad to hear the estate agent cooperated, as you have no legal right to stop pictures being taken of views that can be seen from the road.

When my old neighbours house went on the market, I was very pleased they hadn’t included my garden or house.

Then it dawned on me, it was because it was a mess!😀

Glad the agent will be signed up to an a redress scheme and they often have regs about appropriate pictures/provacy issues for neighbours If someone rang up and asked them to remove a picture for an issue as OP has outlined they would take them down immediately AND she would have cause for complaint if they did not!

You are not being unreasonable at all. You are entitled to your privacy for whatever reason. Some posters on here should wind their necks in.

I was outraged when the people who bought my dad’s house sold it 9 months later and used mostly the shots from when I sold it. With the ornaments and light fittings and paintings featured. I had a moment of panic when I thought I’d left stuff behind.

YANBU.

You need blinds or net curtains so people can't see in.