To tell landlord of next door neighbours?

[Ezlo]

My next door neighbours regularly argue. They don't care what time it is and have two young kids.

Each time they argue they both say horrible things to each other and then I hear really loud banging. Possibly him trashing the place. I've called the police on them in the past. They also have a drug dealer visiting (via the back door) daily, I think demanding money.

I've had enough and so I want to tell their landlord to sort them the fuck out. WIBU to do so?

Yes tell their landlord, drug taking and disturbance should be a breach of tenancy. I talk to the landlords of the houses next to ours when I need to

I agree with this - it's a bit pathetic

Even if their LL actually gives a shit do you know how hard it is to evict someone even if they breach their contract?

I'm a LL and if I got a phone call telling me this I would be asking other neighbours if they had any complaints get you to put it in writing and warn the tenant any more anti social problems and I'd be looking to evict. The warning might be enough to get them to keep the noise down.

I have a clause about anti social behaviour and complaints from neighbours in my contracts. I'd give a warning that might be all they might need to quiet themselves.

What do you think the landlord will do tell them off ?

Really?
Great in theory but do you know how much time and money an eviction would cost (as a LL I am asuming you do)
Of course it should be easier to evict someone who breaches their Tenancy agreement but its not so the LL will need to be pretty motivated to do it and a neighbour being upset might not be enough.
I am sorry OP, its a crappy situation but I am not sure the LL is the solution

I have an anti social clause in my standard contract to protect neighbours.

Ring social services for the children and keep ringing every time there's an argument.

Don't bother with the landlord, instead ring the anti-social team at your local council, they're usually part of environmental health. Report it to them as they have more clout over anti-social behaviour and can pressure the landlord to evict whereas if you go to the landlord directly there's every chance he/she will just ignore you. Report to the council cil every time there is an incident.

Every time you hear arguing/place being trashed/see drug activity, ring the police and report it.

When it comes to anti-social behaviour you need a multi-agency response and you need to be a thorn in their sides because that's the only way they will join up and take enforcement actions.

It's not easily enforceable though.

That's just some issues I've dealt with on previous tenants.

Bit of a wild generalisation then.

@Ezlo a landlord has the same ability to evict for anti social behaviour as the council!!! I would inform both the child services and the landlord and perhaps think of phoning the police to help get the asbo going.

No, not wild generalisations...

Actual previous experiences, I'm not saying all tenants are like that, I'm pointing out some of the outcomes that could be associated with tenants who use drugs and have kids they dont look after... as can be insinuated in the OP

I get that and its not unusual BUT as you know eviction is very hard and expensive even if a contract is breached.
I agree it SHOULD be easier to evict for anti social behaviour but its not

How do you know the person is a drug dealer?

From the OP’s past 😆

I.have a friend who took her tenants to court with a contract with the same clause in and won. She had statements from 2 different neighbours complaining about loud noise music playing late at night on numerous occasions and swearing loudly at neighbours DC when they were playing in their own garden and when neighbours complained to them they got a mouthful of abuse too. They got eviction order but had to show contract in court. Tenants didn't even show up to court.

This. The children's soft is paramount

She might have "won" but then she would have had to go through a lengthy and expensive eviction process. At the moment evictions are taking up to a year, thats a year of no rent and people living in your house who hate you and their neighbours.
Its VERY VERY unlikely a LL would even try and evict because neighbours are (justifiably) upset. MIL used to own a property and the Tenants stopped paying rent, she was also contacted by people living nearby to complain about their behaviour. It took her over 6 months to get them out, in fact they just did a moonlight flit before the eviction hearing. In total with damage and lost rent it cost her around £10K.
As I said VERY unlikely a LL would evict under these circumstances.

Landlord's insurance may cover all this

It would be hoped so but it doesn't speed up the process and people who are in that process don't have anything to lose.

If the insurance is covering the non-payment of rent it doesn't matter how long it takes. All part of the fun of being a landlord (sarcasm)

Agreed but Op will be living next door to someone who doesn't care about eviction, might not be great

If the police have been called and attended, I think they inform SS anyway if there’s been a domestic (according to my DH who is in the job). I’d call police and landlord. My tenancy agreement said that causing a disturbance to neighbours was breaching the tenancy agreement.

Who is the LL? If its a local authority or Housing Association you might get somewhere otherwise probably not