Would you buy a house if the neighbours were a bit weird?

[blueberrybluey]

We went to view a house today, as we pulled up there was a car behind us who revved and hovered in the road looking at us, my husband wound down the window and asked what was wrong and the man said that was his house and he parks there so humouring him we apologise and park further along.

The house we viewed was next door to him and it really was lovely and ticks all the boxes other than having a drive so is on-street parking only, which I thought we could live with but I can’t help wondering if the parking incident is a sign of what’s to come.
Would this put you off an otherwise perfect home?

I think you are putting too much emphasis on your exchange of communication.
If there are formal complaints re neighbours, that will come up in solicitors enquiries.

On street parking is a nightmare even with good neighbours, let alone this prize pillock. I would run if I were you!

Not often used in this context but, "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time".

Yes I would now be put off. We bought our house with a neighbour a bit like this, boy did we regret it. It was very representative of all the people on the end of our street - all bossy busy bodies who think they can dictate what others do. And we are trapped here. Don’t be me! It’s made me hate my home and I’ve never felt settled or like I can relax.

Nope, don't do it. Parking is a highly contentious issue when it's on-street only. He also sounds like a nasty man so he's probably got other "complaints" up his sleeve.

Absolutely not. We put up with 6 years of constant issues from neighbours when the DC were little, from parking issues to trying to use our drive to park on, spying on us through pushed out knot holes in fence and much more stuff too. They were not just weird but pure evil too, picking on other neighbours as well. I would not touch a house with neighbour issues with a barge pole.

Feed it back to the estate agent. As a seller I would like to know if my neighbour is being a arsehole and putting buyers off.

Definitely let this one go. You'll regret it buying if he's already causing bother.

It was just the road outside ...

Assuming you mean a public road rather than anything that's "his" I'd almost certainly swerve this

If you need any further persuasion though, knock on his door and say pleasantly that you hope you weren't confused about it being a public space and just want to check what the local parking arrangements are?

I suspect his response will confirm everything you need to know

Definitely a hard no!

Personally I would run for hills. There are so many nightmare neighbours threads on here.

If this house was in Bedgebury - run for the hills!

No, no and thrice no!
I’ve had the misfortune to live next to angry arseholes and it was awful. Also, imagine if he is ill or has an accident and no one other than you is there to help him and from then on social services constantly contact you to tell them how to assess his needs and you’ve had ten years of his tomfuckery already.

No I wouldn’t consider it. We went to view a house with its own drive, the owner was showing us round, obviously her car was on the drive. We pulled up between her house and the house next door (both detached) not on a dropped kerb, not blocking anyone or anything, perfectly legal. As we were getting out the next door neighbour pulled up behind us and beeped, we got out and asked if there was a problem and he went ‘This is my house.’ And pointed to the next door property. We were like “Yes? And? We’ve come to view this house.” He was so rude and confrontational we immediately wrote that house off and put the reason why to the estate agent.

We were moving because of a dickhead neighbour so we were glad he showed us his true colours straight away! Would have been a nightmare to live next door to with visitors etc.

No way!

I work in an anti social behaviour team. The amount of issues caused by neighbours like this is off the scale for us and the police. Don't do it. Seriously

On the fence tbh. Whilst him doing that over parking wouldn't bother me as I won't be intimidated like that. ( in fact I'd park there as much as I could) But people like that often have other weird ways and could lead to bigger things, harassment, noise etc.

If you're sharing a wall with his house, definitely not. If not, and I loved the house, I'd consider it.

That would be a no from me. Having had horrendous neighbours, I enjoy my peace now.

Not a chance. More trouble than it's worth.

Just imagine moving day with a removals van.

Most houses in our street have driveways, but we still have a Resident Parking Wanker. Despite not having enough space for his vehicles on his driveway, he took umbrage with his NDN who were elderly and had carer's going in regularly.

He made a point to park outside their house, legally but unnecessary. He kept another vehicle that was usually on his driveway, to block the onroad parking outside his house. When the old man passed away, the ambulance blocked part of his driveway. That did put an end to his parking shenanigans!

Go back a few times and at different times of the day to check it out.

Not worth it. Though most streets with on road parking do tend to have the un written rule of people park outside their own house.

You can't choose your neighbours! Even if you could they could move and you get someone unknown. I wasn't keen on my neighbours when we all moved into new builds together, I was being judgmental, we are poles apart in most ways but I can honestly say I think they are great now, the most helpful bloke ever and I consider his partner a friend now. I hope they never move best neighbours I have had!

I wouldn’t have even bothered looking round the house after that encounter and would tell the agent exactly why.