AIBU to feel guilty about the next tenants..

[SouthsideOwl]

Hi there,

Basically my fiancé and I have just bought our first house yay!

For the past few years, we've lived in fiancé's home area (which I never liked) as it was cheaper and helped us save a big deposit while still being together.

The flat we've been renting is fine in itself ..but some of the people around us are crackers. It's like everything that I hate about the area wrapped in a microcosm.

In the first few weeks of us being here there were loud parties until 6am, singing until 4am on a Wednesday, oh..and the memorable occasion where a drunk/drug addled man went around our 6 flat block kicking doors in and screaming. (Which actually happened several times).

The neighbours opposite us smoke a LOT of weed and it stinks out the block. But they're quiet.

In our time here, we've tried to improve things- the communal front door didn't lock and was getting worse (perm wide open) so I worked for 9 months getting MPs involved etc to get it fixed (all flats but ours are council owned) and it has now been fixed yay!

Anyway...the estate agent is obv keen to get new tenants in after us, and I found out today it's a family with young kids. I wasn't there for the viewings...and even though I wouldn't be comfortable actively saying DON'T RENT here..I now feel incredibly guilty that they might have to go through what we did with two young children.

AIBU? I feel like I should just get over it but urgh, our time here has been miserable and anxiety ridden for 80% of the time...

They may be very familiar with the area, they may well actually want to live in the area. Some of the places that I've lived make me shudder now, but I was very happy in those areas and actively chose to live there at the time.
I really would not stress about situations that may not even be applicable.

Nope. Just get on with your lives. The new tenants can deal with things via the official channels (or take the direct approach.)

No one is forcing the new tenants to live there. They could always move out if it's unbearable (easier said than done, I know.)

I was glad to move out of a rented house because after the old NDN moved out and the new owners installed a hot tub in the back garden. One hour of noisy hot tub pump motor every Sunday afternoon. Plus further noisy, 'pool parties' on Saturdays.

New rented house - sociable house. No loud parties but they liked to sit out on their patio at night talking really loudly under our bedroom window. Their dog barked a lot too.

Could I care less about who moved in after we moved out. Nope.

'They may be very familiar with the area, they may well actually want to live in the area'

This is true. Like I said, I'm not from the area originally and it might be something they're fine with and it has other benefits for them. I'm very noise sensitive too, and quite safety conscious, so perhaps these incidents bothered me more than they would other people. Certainly didn't bother fiancé as much as it bothered me 😂

Tell the police or the council noise people when there is a party after midnight (ours has a 24hour hotline, my friends area is a 24hr email address) and they come round right away at our areas and sort it.

If the noisy people are tenants they can get kicked out, if owners they can get asbos and fines I think.

Don’t give up. The other family will be fine. Their screaming kids may cause even more noise!