HMO had two people who constantly drink

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I live in a not so great area of town but the streets around me are generally ok.

The house two doors down (about 20 metres away) is a HMO (house of multiple occupants, single rooms let to adults).

it used to be young professionals etc, but recently it’s had two people who are 30/40s and just spend their days drinking at the front of the house.

if I leave the house they are looking in my direction. It’s a six bedroom house - no one decent will want to live with them, so it’s going to become a doss house full of other people like them. They have a back garden. The street is full of children and in my opinion I don’t want them to see this.

the two people sit on the wall adjoining the other house, I would hate to live next to them.

AIBU for thinking that it’s acceptable behaviour and should I call the property manager?

so soon I’ll have 6 people living in a House, all not working….

ok this is a drip feed. It’s your house? And they are approaching children?

You're making yourself look terrific.

You've still not said what they've done. You are obviously just a snob

Have they approached any children?

Why would I? I don’t want to see topless men drinking tins all day. Also saying hello gives them an invitation to come near me when they get more drunk.

Yep.

Don't look at them then

Go on....?

Guess you don't live in as nice an area as you thought op. That would certainly never happen round here.

Do you own the house? If not, their ownership or lack thereof is none of your business. And, yes, if they pay rent, they have the right drink in the garden. And they can look at who they want.

Have they approached any children?

Or are they just sitting in their front garden having a quiet drink ( or several) with each other on a very hot summer Saturday? I'm not working in this heat and I've been sitting in my own garden most of this weekend with a bottle of chilled Rosé.

I thoroughly recommend it.

When you say they have approached children, what exactly have they done? Because 1) anything major would be the most epic of drip feeds ever seen on a thread and 2) given what you've said so far and the snobbery contained therein I wonder what it is that you're taking exception to.

Well surely you would say they're approaching children in your OP if that were the case?

So, tell us about that, then. As you left it out of the OP. The only ‘offence’ you’ve provided us with is them ‘looking at you’. If they’d been approaching kids, I rather think you’d have mentioned it initially.

Quite. It's all unraveling isn't it

i Guess a lot of people on this site seem to like others to live in low class areas whereby it’s ok to sit outside and drink all day.

My neighbours sit outside the front of their house smoking fags and drinking energy drinks all day. The blokes have their tops off, giant man boobs swinging and butt cracks on show. They also look at me like I'm some kind if zoo animal whenever I walk past them.

I don't particularly like it, I would rather they fecked off somewhere else but they have as much right to sit in their front garden with their boobs out as I do to grow my flowers and herb garden.

There is also the resident drunk that lives around the corner, he lies on the green with 20 layers of clothes on drinking and sunbathing. They aren't actually hurting anyone, my kids are teens now and don't seem irreparably damaged by exposure to them. They just know that all manner of people exist in the world and that isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Because I am fortunate enough to have a decent job, good health, and my own house, no reliance on social housing and can choose where I live to to extent. I had choices in life, privileges 'class' I suppose you would say.

I doubt these people had much of a choice in the way their lives went, at least in comparison. They have to live somewhere and it's a hot sunny day. I do not begrudge them having a drink, people are out there doing a lot worse.

Two people are sitting in the garden of their home drinking, and occasionally looking towards stranger's moving around on the street.

They aren't shouting or otherwise causing a disturbance and your only objection is essentially that they look untidy? Oh but they're approaching children? But not apparently in a way that's at all alarming or surely you'd have mentioned that on your op?

i Guess a lot of people on this site seem to like others to live in low class areas whereby it’s ok to sit outside and drink all day.

Shot too soon with that, I'm afraid, OP. You need to work on timing.

2/10. 🦈🦈🦈

So there are people who sit outside and their crime is looking at you?

You do sound snobbish. They're probably looking at you because you're clutching your pearls while peering at them with lemon lips. Just get on with your day.

Alright Hyacinth, use your pearls like rosary beads next time you walk past them and pray to Waitrose that maybe whispers the underclasses, won’t make eye contact. 😒

I live in a gated street, so no, not a “low-class” area, but you seem to be objecting to legal behaviour by people on their own property.

They have not been loud, rude, impolite, aggressive or the like, you just seem to look down on them.

They looked at you, you looked at them.

Why is it OK for you to look at them but not for them to look at you?

Fewer.

There's a couple who sit in their front garden all the time here, and yes they often are drinking but it's not an hmo it's an expensive flat overlooking the marina and it's their only outdoor space. Of course I don't have a problem. What I'm saying is that sitting at the front isn't abnormal or low class

If they are drinking on the street, and this would include sitting on a wall, feet on pavement looking into the street AND there is a “ no drinking” by-law that includes your street , then you can do something. If the above don’t apply then there is nothing unless their behaviour becomes loud, violent, unreasonable then it’s drunk and disorderly, call police.