So a bit of background to begin, We’ve been privately renting our ground floor flat for the past 4 years with myself, other half and 2 daughters 7 & 10. It is a block of 12 flats and another block of 12 opposite,so apart from the usual parking conundrum and the appalling bin area where bags can’t make it in to a bin, all was well.
This has been building up since November 2019 when we had a Bulgarian family move in to the flat opposite us and then in February 2020 when a scummy English family moved in next to them. The place has gone very abruptly down hill and I’ve had to endure 3 lock downs with these very ignorant and rude neighbours.
So Bulgarians have numerous visitors a week including in lockdowns, they slam the doors, are constantly in and out smoking and filling the cigarette bucket with flammable rubbish. (I had to put 3 fires out in a week before). They are all 2 bedroom flats so I have no idea how they fit at least 8 adults and about 5 kids under 5 in them?! This weekend just gone they had another “lockdown” party. I’ve had enough so I finally got the courage to report them. It goes against everything I’ve been brought up with, don’t ever grass on people and all that but enoughs enough! The first lock down I thought there may have been a language barrier so myself and another neighbour had to explain that they are not allowed to have people round. A sign on the communial door was also put up as they still obviously couldn’t understand they were breaking the rules.
Let’s know add the scummy English family into the mix. A large bench was lovingly placed right outside my kitchen window ( for emphasis we are all ground floor flats) where they would bbq at least 5 times in a week, it was very hot so my windows were open and the coal smoke was wafting right in and the sound of their young kids screaming there heads off following the smoke right through my window! They have their own kitchen window to bbq outside of but they obviously liked an audience. I asked them if they could move the bench and bbq so it wasn’t right in front of my window which was met with hostility, they could see nothing wrong with it as it was a communial garden. After weeks of having to endure the bast**rd bench and bbq I moved it 2 metres to the left so it wasn’t directly in my view! They were not happy! So awkward silences ensued.
I took a look at there patch of communial garden where their windows are, to be greeted with a slide, climbing frame, ball pool, paddling( paddling pool was put up in august and is still out there and we are in February) and other toys which are strewn about. No wonder why they couldn’t put a bench and a bbq there! There was no room left for anyone else to use it let alone themselves. (In our tenancy agreement it states that nothing should be left out in communial areas so my poor girls have never had any garden toys).
There is still so much more that has happened and my mental health is absolutely f*ed because I never new people could be like this.
The spitting near the entrance of the flats is another story and my front door being kicked and being verbally abused and being stalked through my windows and my daughters bike being stolen. Ahh the list goes on.
But please let me know your opinions. Am I being over sensitive? A bit dramatic? It has just become extremely overwhelming and I feel as if I’m turning into a “Karen” with my moany 30 year old self.