Wendy house has blown into nightmare neighbours car and cracked rear light.

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We’ve actually very recently had to move because of these neighbours (my in laws/OH’s brother and his partner) and their harassment/threats however OH still owns the house.

Kids had a Wendy house, the house we’re renting doesn’t currently have a garden or anywhere to store it. Wendy house was in a corner between a wall which is at least 5 feet and OH’s house. We’ve had storms before and it’s never blown over the wall before, we did have a 10kg bag of play sand on the roof too.

We had BIL banging on our door this morning going absolutely mad because the Wendy house had blown over the wall and cracked his partner’s car’s rear light. Demanded payment there and then. Really quite scary when I was on my own with 4 children. Threatened to ring the police if he didn’t calm down and told him to go away and ring me about it later.

We’re wondering if it would be covered under OH’s house insurance or is it an act of god? They’ve reacted completely out of proportion to the issue. Despite everything they’ve done it doesn’t sit right with either myself or OH to not pay for the damage caused and I really don’t want any more aggro as I’m finding it quite triggering.

Posted here for traffic really but WWYD? Or what should we be doing?

Plenty of plastic Wendy houses around, which was what I thought of straightaway.

He sounds like trouble, pay for the damage you have seen as it shouldn't be much and don't store anything next to his boundary. No sense is provoking this as it does seem that the Wendy house likely did cause the damage.

If he does threaten you again, call the police, record every word and any time he enters your property.

Are you selling the house? I would strongly recommend doing so and then you have no reason to engage with these people ever again.

Yes, it’s plastic!

My own childhood wendy house had a light metal frame, like a tent, and material walls. It was very light.

Cross post!

It’s not really his boundary. It’s hard to explain. We share an access so they walk through what was our garden to get to their house. They’ve always made a massive deal about the kids having toys in front of our house or the kids playing out there. Police have been involved several times. He has a criminal record for GBH against OH. I could go on and on. We can’t sell it as it’s part of an estate. When I say OH owns it what I mean is that he owns an equal share in 4 houses on the farm. That was just the house we lived in (so he also owns a quarter of BIL’s house) sorry, didn’t want to over complicate the OP. So it’s not as easy as selling unfortunately.

It sounds as though BIL should have some kind of restraining order preventing him from turning up on your doorstep! What an arse!

What are you doing with the house? Selling or renting?

If you don’t want to have to deal with them call your insurer and let them deal with it.

It will likely increase your premium but you won’t need to get involved. It may be worth it.

In the meantime I would remove the Wendy house and put it anywhere you can along with anything else they can claim may damage their possessions or which they can damage

Tell them to prove it. Anything could have hit the car. The things that's blown past my house today are unreal, it's even brought some buildings down nearby. Not as bad as Arwen was but it's still causing a lot of damage.

Put the children's toys in the house for now

Google the cost of a light cover don't accept a bill for anything more than that

Do you have cctv at your new house? How dies he know where you live?

I remember your previous threads. The BIL sounds unhinged at the best of times. I would pay up to get them off my case, remove anything from the property that could cause a similar accident and be thankful I don't have to live next to them any more.

What's happening with the house, are you selling up now, OP?

All the other toys were in the house but the Wendy house was too big to fit through the door so we thought it was best to stay put. We’ve had it 4 years and this has never happened before.

We’ll pay as if we don’t we’ll have other things damaged and all sorts of awful behaviours to deal with. He came around like a mad man today. We’ve only moved into the next village and there’s nowhere to park where our car can’t be seen from the road. Also, small village mentality and gossip. He’ll have easily been able to know/find out where we live now. Thought we were free of all that.

Oh, just saw your previous comment. Can the BIL buy your brother out? Or is your brother still working for the estate?

But I'd seriously look into a restraining order. With the previous conviction for GBH it shouldn't be hard to get one.

proof or no payment

Sorry it’s my partner and his family. BIL won’t buy OH out and refuses to be bought out himself. OH still has the farm business. All livestock/sheds and machinery are still there. We have CCTV over the main areas but there’s so much to cover it would be impossible to get surveillance on everything. Such a difficult position to be in.

In your shoes I think I'd empty the farm property of your belongings and move far, far away.

You need to extricate yourselves from the family business somehow or you are going to have a lifetime of unhappiness.

It’s OH’s business. He’s a sole trader. Unless we force it to go to court which will cost a fortune and eat OH’s share, there’s not a massive amount we can do. I won’t move away from the area. DD is settled at school, my family and friends are here, OH’s family (the ones that aren’t batshit) and friends are here. I don’t see why we should have to upsticks and move.

I'd tell him to deduct it from everything he owes you for slashing tyres and breaking toys. send him an itemized list.

Honestly no I wouldn’t pay. Give the past behaviour from them they could get fucked. How is he going to prove the Wendy house did it?

I would block him on every possible Avenue (phone /social media) etc. I’d get a ring door bell and never answer when he comes. Keep all aggressive communication as evidence and apply for a restraint order.

Get everything out your old place so you don’t have to go there again.

I’d rent your house on the farm to a massive, ex army guy. In fact a whole barracks.
That would shut bil up.

If you had an order stating he couldn’t come near you/your partner then when he came to your home you could call the police as he’d be in breech.

you can have material ones as well as wooden ones but as it damaged the pain in the necks lights I assume it was wood
There was a severe storm up north & especially in Scotland's East Coast
its a wonder from the severity some people didn't loose their rooves

Tell him to get 3 quotes. Or you get the quotes and pay him that. You should give him the money. And it will be better for you to. But don’t go through your insurance, it could be years of higher payments for something which shouldn’t cost that much.