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Searchingforananswer2023 · 2026-04-23T17:29:22+00:00

Property next door is being worked on. I suspect three separate rooms for a HMO. There has been no notice or information given. Is this correct? Does anyone live next to a hmo? Any advice?

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Searchingforananswer2023 · 24/04/2026 18:37

LoserWinner · 23/04/2026 23:35

I live in a HMO.

Four rooms: One person works for MoD. One is a paralegal in the entertainment industry. One is a final year medical student. One is a retired teacher. Three are UK citizens, two of whom have dual nationality (Irish/UK and Malaysian/UK). One is South Korean.
We are quieter than a household with children, keep reasonable hours, don’t have pets, and are actively involved with the local tenants and residents association.

So what, exactly, is the problem with having an HMO next door? Or are you just defaulting to prejudice?

No prejudice here, parents were immigrants to this country. The owner of the house and his sons are criminals, buying and selling cars cut and patched up together. Sons are thugs. Glad they've gone but also on guard about who comes next.

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Meadowfinch · 24/04/2026 18:41

I lived in an HMO after I graduated. Then it was called a house full of bedsits

We were all fairly well behaved, we even looked after the garden despite all being 22 & 23.

Why not wait and see who moves in and how they behave.

WhatAnExcellentDayForAnExorcism · 24/04/2026 18:49

We’ve had this happen to us recently. Work carried on for a year, the owners lied through their teeth about it in our case, assured us that they would be living there, couldn’t wait to move in and put roots down blah blah blah, next thing we know it’s on right move as a four bed HMO, which doesn’t require any kind of permissions in our area. I was really worried at first but honestly the people who live there are nice enough, quiet, no trouble. The extra cars are a pain but not much we can do about that.

The owners however are on my shit list. I don’t like being lied too.

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Searchingforananswer2023 · 24/04/2026 21:46

WhatAnExcellentDayForAnExorcism · 24/04/2026 18:49

We’ve had this happen to us recently. Work carried on for a year, the owners lied through their teeth about it in our case, assured us that they would be living there, couldn’t wait to move in and put roots down blah blah blah, next thing we know it’s on right move as a four bed HMO, which doesn’t require any kind of permissions in our area. I was really worried at first but honestly the people who live there are nice enough, quiet, no trouble. The extra cars are a pain but not much we can do about that.

The owners however are on my shit list. I don’t like being lied too.

We are the same, two years of work. Told they were living there. No net curtains and I can see into the front room of the house it has a lock where you have to put in a code to get into the room, then I knew it was a HMO. Im just being cautious as if there is trouble there the family will not manage it.

I am lucky, all security measures in place just in case we get a bad tenant.

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WhatAnExcellentDayForAnExorcism · 24/04/2026 23:30

@Searchingforananswer2023I was suspicious because they were always really fastidious about covering all the windows during the renovation particularly when they weren’t there but someone forgot to put the cover back one day and there was a toilet plumbed in the living room. Looking back, I knew then but they were always so insistent that they would be living there that I just thought I was being a bit mean spirited and there was a perfectly reasonable explanation. Lesson learnt there! If it walks like a duck!

Fortunately we have their number as we had terrible trouble with the first set of builders and I will not be afraid to use it if we ever have any trouble.

TheSmallAssassin · 24/04/2026 23:51

So, a house share? I don't understand the problem?