To think there might be something dodgy going on?

[1Pinkfluffyelephant]

A family living opposite us sold their house almost a year ago, the new neighbours have still not moved in.
They mentioned back before Xmas they would be hoping to move after Xmas, then they blamed Covid for not being able to get a removal company (despite other families having moved recently both on our street and surrounding).

They come and go randomly, turn up for half hour then leave again then don’t come back for a day or two. It’s a quiet dead end road so really obvious when cars come and go.

All the curtains and blinds the old neighbours left are still up and have remained shut. The windows also never opened even during the heat wave etc - we were out in the garden most the day with DC’s so it was very obvious they were the only house with everything shut.
Something tells me something odd is going on but maybe I’m over thinking 🤷‍♀️

[1Pinkfluffyelephant]

@Yankathebear to be honest I don’t really know. I had just noticed a few things then another neighbour had asked if we had seen/met them yet and noticed the comings and going (it’s a very quiet area) which then made me think could there be something going on. The are obviously so many things it could be too. Another poster mentioned that maybe they didn’t want to tell us the real reason why when DH asked them as we don’t know them, but it was actually them that brought it up. DH wouldn’t dare ask 😂

[Juanmorebeer]

This happened to my ex. He completed on a property and then just as he was about to move his Dad had a huge stroke and needed care so instead of moving in he had to move in with his Dad for a year until he very sadly died. He had a nightmare in that time with absolute busy body neighbours REPORTING him to the council for having an empty house.

It was his house! He paid the bills and council tax and visited sometimes like your neighbours do to check things were OK and no leaks or break ins etc. Other than that he didn't cause anyone any bother but people kept reporting him when he was doing nothing at all wrong.

[Juanmorebeer]

They could have just decided to join households with someone else due to lockdown or whatever.

[FatherTedsBankAccount]

Oh ffs. I am an incredibly private person who hates the idea of being watched by nosy neighbours. People like you are my worst nightmare. What they are doing, unless it directly affects your property or your life in a direct way, is simply absolutely none of your business.

[Boobissue]

What do you mean by "something going on"? What does that actually mean?

[ProudAuntie76]

Yes, I am an expert @MiriamMargo. I’ve reported three buildings later found to be cannabis farms in my home and work towns.

[1Pinkfluffyelephant]

@FatherTedsBankAccount really!!!! Let’s hope one day you don’t need help from your neighbours if you get broken into or car gets stolen. You couldn’t ask if anyone had seen or heard anything could you because you can’t stand neighbours like them who happen to observe things outside their house can you? Nothing to do with being nosey. It’s called looking outside which I’m totally entitled to do. Noticing a car parked right on the pavement outside my kitchen window, is that nosey erm no it’s a bit hard not to see that really isn’t it. If they were so private why have they on two separate occasions started the discussion about their housing situation without being asked?

[BikerChick91]

[quote carreterra]@1Pinkfluffyelephant
Some MNers have given you harsh comments, but there is a difference between being nosey and being concerned, and as you say, you are on a quiet street where things are more noticeable. I'm sure i would notice if a neighbour's curtains/blinds were always closed and no windows open.
@BikerChick91
I'm so sorry you are having such a tough time, would you consider re-selling the house? I know what you mean about the memories & future plans/dreams being in that house. I hope things improve for you, especially after the Covid waiting game. Best wishes.[/quote]
Thanks. I think I’m going to rent it out and postpone making a decision. I’ve got someone coming out tomorrow to do a safety check pre having a letting agent come round so if the OP is my nosey neighbour, he’s not a drug dealer or a criminal and I’m not either, just a gas man!

It took me a long time to get on the property ladder and prices are going up again and I did get a good deal on a mortgage with a five year fix so I’d not have this opportunity as easily again, given I’m single in a now precarious industry on now part time hours. If I rent it out there’s always a chance in a couple of years I won’t be as devastated and I’ll have moved on and hopefully be in a happier and financially healthier place with a couple of years of mortgage payments under my belt. I’ve found just having different decor ideas to previously has helped me imagine eventually living there so I’m not ready to sell up for emotional reasons either. It’s a great big complicated mess, made worse by the pandemic. But I’m sure it will all work out.

[Sarahandco]

I would question whether it is a canabis factory? are there lights on at night? anything being taken out. A large house was bought on my parents road, scaffolding went up and everyone thought work was being done, but then all the electrics in the street went off and the road had to be dug up. To cut a long story short, it led to the discovery that it had been turned in to a cannabis farm, the electrical problem was a result of the 24 hour electrical demand from the factory. It caused a lot of trouble for the residents so there is no reason why you should not be aware of what goes on where you live because it can have an impact on you.

[1Pinkfluffyelephant]

@BikerChick91 yes because clearly having the gas man round would be a reason to expect you or he a criminals 🙄 pointless comment really grow up!

[Bowerbird5]

We had this with the house adjacent. The estate agent had bought it. Split the land and eventually got planning permission. Told neighbours next to us that his sister had bought it to live in. Both were back and forth occasionally. Next thing lots of work down painters etc and back on the market. Messed the folk about who were buying it( we have a mutual friend) and it finally went through and we met them on Saturday. Three years after the previous man died. Seem very nice couple. They said it had been a nightmare.

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe]

I don't think it's odd to fleetingly wonder. Once. That way, you've noticed. Wondered at the oddity of it and then moved along. Your criteria doesn't match mine. We have a house with stone walls and in high Summer, the curtains are closed all day whilst it's hot, the room is kept cool that way. I don't mind if neighbours notice and gossip to each other but if they mentioned it to me I would look at them as if they were odd. People do things differently - and they're allowed to.

Continuing to wonder about it moves somebody to nosey-status. The fact that you have young children is neither here nor there. Your children are not going into this house, are they? I thought that was a bizarre comment and it's also a bit bosom-hoikey and irrelevant. Having children doesn't give you the right to have information about your neighbours.

I understand that you might be curious but your curiosity is clearly not going to be satisfied by the new owners as they don't wish to engage. The only choice you have is to continue to wonder or simply stop.

[BikerChick91]

[quote 1Pinkfluffyelephant]@BikerChick91 yes because clearly having the gas man round would be a reason to expect you or he a criminals 🙄 pointless comment really grow up![/quote]
It was meant in jest but your comment above was unkind and uncalled for. I’ve “grown up” a lot in the past year through the circumstances I previously explained and which led to me almost taking my life. Leaving this thread now as I know it’s for the best.

[Legoandloldolls]

I was going to say cannabis farm too.

Or they might be like us and have a house with work somewhere else. We have extended and was going to move it before covid.

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe]

... and if this new neighbour has brought up their housing situation with you directly, why are you still wondering? What's to continue wondering about?

Sorry OP, I know you have the right to look outside but I'd be freaked out at the level of interest you're displaying. It's really not the same as noticing a break in or something wrong. Plenty of people are friendly with their neighbours and still miss things like that.

[oakleaffy]

@FatherTedsBankAccount

Oh ffs. I am an incredibly private person who hates the idea of being watched by nosy neighbours. People like you are my worst nightmare. What they are doing, unless it directly affects your property or your life in a direct way, is simply absolutely none of your business.

Exactly this.
A street where we lived had a frightful snoop who was forever at her upper window, morning, noon and night, whenever one went home, there she was, like a wraith behind the nets, index finger crooked for a better gawk.

The gossip she spread was indescribable.

She made people's lives a misery, a one woman Neighbourhood Watch.

'Ooh, Who is that you were walking up the avenue with? Not seen 'ee before''

''Ohh, An ambulance was called for number 56, wonder what 'ee done?''Do you think ee tried to kill isself?''

That boy at 18 hasn't a girlfriend yet, he came home at 'alf past one last night, I heard the gate squeak, got out of bed for a look''

Terrible busy body.

The house next door to us was empty for over a year, the same people coming and going. .Blissfully quiet.

Curtains drawn, {Old lady's house who sadly died} but the new owners took a long time moving in, {over a year}.
Perhaps they had a weed farm going in that year, or a sex dungeon, but doubt it.
If someone isn't living there, why would they open curtains and windows? Our new neighbs didn't.

Some of the people must have been architects and quoting trades, a they have done a lot of work.

[iseeu]

@BikerChick91 i hope things turn around and get better for you quickly.

I am guessing that the OP didn't read your first post and she is now in fighter mode all guns blazing. Don't take notice of her comment, ad at least she won't worry if your gas man does turns up next door to her tmw!

[oakleaffy]

@BikerChick91
I hope you are ok.

Luckily most people aren't over invested on what their neighbours are doing.

[Apple222]

@BikerChick91 Sorry to hear what you are going through. I really hope things work out for you and you have a future that is bright and brings you all you wish for. 💐 for you xx

[ScrambledSmegs]

There was a cannabis farm on the street where we used to live years ago. Mostly you wouldn't know but every now and again there was the most intense reek of cannabis, it was strongest outside this house. A more knowledgable local asserted that it was due to the plants flowering (though I don't know if it was true or not). Presumably they'd forgotten that old, not particularly nice Victorian houses are very draughty, and what comes in must go out.

Any oddly pungent smells to report, OP?

[BF2748]

Are they planning on doing renovation work? I have neighbours who were due to move into their house last November they bought it in Feb last year, they’ve still not moved in.

[Strawberrycreamsundae]

[quote 1Pinkfluffyelephant]@BikerChick91 yes because clearly having the gas man round would be a reason to expect you or he a criminals 🙄 pointless comment really grow up![/quote]
Was that really necessary?
Especially when BikerChick91 is clearly having a rough time.
Makes you sound spiteful OP.

[oakleaffy]

@ScrambledSmegs
There was a wonderful scent of weed near a large Vicarage in the summer..The perfume is lovely. The smell is most definitely a give away...People walking past the Vicarage would comment.
Even a driving instructor says he knows all the weed spots in the area..In fact, one spot is known as ''Weed stink Bridge'' .
Clearly the local police aren't bothered, else the smell wouldn't be so prevalent.

[BojoKilledMyMojo]

I wouldn't have thought any drugs gang would buy a house to grow weed or cut drugs in. They'd rent it. And there'd be more people coming and going in little spates.

[katy1213]

Thank heavens I don't have neighbours like you. Do you also keep tabs on who's obeying the rules: three went in at No 6 and only two came out, that means they're two over the rule of six, shall I call the police?
Your life must be very boring!