To sell my house to annoy my neighbours

[Holoqueen]

DH would never let me but we have been at war with our neighbours since they moved in 2 years ago. We have been here for 11 years. I love this house but it’s going to court and it won’t end there. I feel like a prisoner. I want to sell once it’s all sorted. But for stupid silly money, so I can get a beer swilling, screaming wife, 6 obnoxious kids and 2/3 barking dogs living here. With motorbikes and everything else possible to annoy stuck up, entitled twits next door. Then I can just sit back and watch the chaos unfold. Iabu of course I wouldn’t do it. It be nice to though. I’ve spent most of the day imagining we had enough money to buy a house we loved and then hold auditions for the worst family ever and then just giving them the house. It’s nice to dream! I can’t be the only one to sit and dream the most ridiculous ways I can cut my nose of to spite my face!

YANBU - neighbours can be awful, I’ve had a similar fantasy many times. I hope it all gets sorted out for you

I know someone that did this accidentally - they had years of awful next door neighbours. When they moved they thought they were selling to a family - later found out the wife and kids never lived there and the guy was a major drug dealer with dodgy people coming and going at all hours of the night - they definitely felt like karma had been served!

may i suggest you buy your DC a trumpet for christmas. My niece got one last year and my sister has has non stop complaints from all the neighbours. they live in a detatched house but apparently they still hear it. its now been arranged she practices from 4pm-5pm daily and the (retired) neighbours on both sides both go out (their choice).

No! You are not unreasonable.
My neighbour hates me because I am a catholic. She refuses to take in parcels for me and if I take them in for her (which I don't now) she sent her visitors in to collect them. She poured bleach and water from her mop bucket over the fence into my Washing line (I have cameras on my house and they caught her) she never speaks and when my neighbour was having a street bbq she asked was that dirty fenian going! (Me)

I often sit and dream that she gets busted for a terrible crime and they lock her up with some smelly lesbian nun!

No, we moved this year because of neighbours. I had many fantasy about who to sell to but it went to a seemingly nice family so now I feel guilty that they will go through the same horrendous things.

What have they done and is the issue now resolved? The stress of shitty neighbours is immense. I used to fantasise about attaching my neighbour’s feet to the ground (big nails!) and repeatedly swinging a Le Cruset type frying pan into his ugly fucking head as hard as I could.

YANBU I’ve had really shit neighbors before, however I was lucky and found out that it was a party house after we left and made their lives hell, I bet they wished they had been nicer to us.

Why not rent out yours to a really noisy family.

Then rent another house elsewhere with the money and enjoy the dream.

I don’t feel so alone anymore! We had lovely neighbours for so long and then these two moved in. It’s been a long saga, ultimately we will win but it will never be the same. The stress and cost is immense. I’m just glad I’m not the only one who sits fantasying about my little plan of hate! My favourite saying at the moment is you can’t argue with stupid. If I don’t laugh I just sit sobbing. Hate shitty neighbours. I am having a big party soon though with lots of kids and that will drive them insane. But I expect a solicitors letter after. I can’t even walk out my front door without them taking photos of what I’m doing. Every time friends come over they take photos of their cars. It’s just been a awful 2 years. Big hugs to you all, it’s not nice is it. They actually installed a gate while we were out with a padlock in our fence to a cordoned off area of our back garden which we own and have now proved we own but despite proving it because they dispute it still by just saying no everyone is wrong, we are right, we are not allowed to remove it until a judge oks it. It’s all stuff like that. It’s just relentless. I even brought a Euro millions ticket today in the hopes I’d win and could just give the house away to the most annoying people ever. I thought as a landlord you were responsible for your tenants behaviour and we would get a letter within days.

nfh.org.uk/

This is a forum/website about shitty neighbours I turned to when I had shitty neighbours!!

I am thinking of applying for mine to be a house of multiple occupation before I sell. It would be worth more- but it would really piss my neighbours off

The euromillions lottery is great for this kind of thing. Hours of fun fantasying about selling our house to a drag car racing crack dealer etc

You could start by getting the 2 or 3 dogs yourself.

But for stupid silly money, so I can get a beer swilling, screaming wife, 6 obnoxious kids and 2/3 barking dogs living here

Totally feel your pain There seem to be a lot of batshit neighbours in the world. Why can't they all move in next door to eachother and leave the rest of us in peace!

They installed a locked gate onto your garden??? WTF is wrong with these people!!!

We have done it. Taken us 8 years since they hugely (started to) pissed us off. But we have bought a fabulous old run down house and are moving in on Monday. I'm so relieved.
People we have sold to are lovely though.
Just keep looking something will come up.

We also went through a legal battle.

I totally sympathise OP. I moved because of my vile neighbours, rather than start a court battle that I was sure (as sure as you can be about litigation!) I would win. It's absolutely ghastly and it was only once I moved out that I realised the weight that had been lifted off my shoulders. Unmumsnetty hugs x

You don't need to own the dogs - you could start a doggy day care business from home with lots of outdoors play

@zxcvhjkl Assholes are assholes no matter the cost of house. Im simply saying I would give it away to whoever was going to cause the most carnage. No offence meant. Should have worded it differently.

Gosh it’s far more common than you think isn’t it. The weight is definitely heavy. It’s so sad when you love a house, love your neighbours and then you get idiots in. I know there’s more important things going on in the world but I feel like my world is is being invaded by these two twonks. I absolutely think all bad neighbours should be stuck in a neighbourhood together!

I can nominate a family if you want to give away the house. I can guarantee they will make their lives hell, and then the rest of our street can be happy too. Win win.

At one time I had awful neighbours. After months and months of their noise that never stopped, night or day, I understood why someone would get a gun out and shoot them. I would never have done it or condoned it, but I now understand why people do it. They NEVER shut up. 3am or 3pm, same noise level. Screaming, shouting, loud talking music etc every minute of the day, all day every day.

I have two big dogs one of which decided to start barking at every opportunity.

I'm happy to send the bastard over.

We had nightmare neighbours when we moved into a new build. They did some terrible things to us so we put our house on the market.

Then we discovered that there was a problem with the boundary of the property. The builder had built it about 1m along from where it should have been so everyone owned part of their neighbours garden...

We were the first to discover the issue and in the end we managed to force the builder to buy it back from us for what we paid for it. And we ended up doing a part exchange with them and we bought a bigger house from them elsewhere.

The builder then sold our old house off at a knock down rate which dragged everybody’s down. When our neighbours eventually sold three years later they lost thirty thousand pounds.