Someone IS living next door to me

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House next door converted to a HMO and I posted before as I was worried.

I've been hearing footsteps going up and down the stairs for a while and thought it was my imagination. No windows are open, no lights are ever on there is no sound of a toilet flushing and the bins are never put out.

Just after midnight a car was running outside my house across the drive. I turned on my camera and the door next door opened to accept a takeaway.

I have been off work for a week and have not seen anyone enter or exit.

Unbelievablely strange

what is a HMO?

House of multiple occupancy.

I have small side lights and fairy lights on timers so someone peering at my house might think nobody was in. I live alone so do not make much rubbish, takes me weeks to fill a bin and I dry my washing inside as I get terrible hay fever. I am not noisy either. Simple explanation for most things really,

This is an issue... worth a call to the police?

I would prefer that to my neighbours shouting and screaming at all hours, filling the back yard with masses of rubbish, dealing drugs, breaking the communal gate and chucking rubbish out on the street.

thank you 😊

Nothing wrong with being aware. I lived for a while in between to rough estates in Leeds where people would take an axe to the front door in daylight to steal, they were that blatant. We had those security bars on our doors and were hyper aware of new faces/strange behaviour in our road.

Of course get on with life but to be completely unaware of surroundings isn't possible unless in a lovely neighbourhood.

You wouldnt know i lived in my house.
The neighbours very rarely see me if at all.
I could be a very rare guest visiting
Afew of them think my partner lives here alone, as they send a christmas card in just his name 🤣Although we have lights on and open windows or he does anyway 🤣

Home of Multiple Occupation, so rooms rented out within a house or flat

YANBU.
I would put up motion solar lights on each fence panel. I have them and the whole garden lights up even uf just a Fox or Cat passes through my garden.

Why be so rude? OP is understandably concerned that someone is in her garden at night, and no one is putting bins out next door though she has seen someone silently using the house. It’s weird and disturbing.

Someone hiding from an abusive ex? Or just recovering from a bad breakup. Or police protection unit.

I would have no clue when my neighbours switch their lights on because I can't see through their walls to know when they're on or not?

I have lived in dodgy areas, I have even lived in an HMO although they weren't called that 50 years ago. I would be much more concerned about random people in my garden than quiet but slightly odd people next door.

Perhaps it’s time to refer to the issue of Title theft long running on R4 where the parent of a vicar I believe died and he inherited but not living there. Neighbour noticed some activity and contacted the vicar who couldn’t open the doors as locked had been changed, eventually workmen arrived and said they were working for the owner.

It emerged that someone faked a sale of this property to new owners who were registered under the vicar’s title.

He got them evicted but took 3 years to get their name off the Title.

Sign up to HMLR free property alert service so if anyone applies to your title they will alert you, and do regular 6 month report

I have had some funny things go on with neighbours in the past which would make anyone doubt their sanitary 😂

The latest thing isn't that bad, but still odd. They always put out a empty wheelie bin. It's been going on for months now. I only noticed it because it went over in the wind several times over winter on bin day so i picked it up off the pavement for them. Totally empty everytime.

Neither can I. But when living on a terrace row of hmo houses you do tend to notice lights unless you never venture out past dusk. I don't know if my neighbours have lights on where I currently live. But in a built up road with hmos? They tend to be on packed on streets with on street parking. So you walk past your neighbours houses.

In fact even in our detached house I drive past next door. You just notice things surely? Unless your on a farm type plot?

I live in a terraced house but my lounge is at the back so can't see my neighbours and if they looked at my house would think there were no lights on. I frequently go out after dark but pay no attention to who does/doesnt have lights on!

Just to clarify, I cannot approach the owner he is a criminal and we don't get on. He used to work on the house everyday for 18 months and has now disappeared. I think he's in prison.
It's not a safe house.
Everyone can see directly into the house no curtains, at all, no furniture and no lights.
It's not a cannabis farm, that needs, heat, lamps and as we all know by now there are no lights.
There is no car associated with the house or parked on the drive.
Finally, I'm not nosey, I have a life, but I also have an interest in my surroundings.

The problem is you've assumed this neighbour must be up to no good simply because the owner of the house is a criminal and you've had some problems in the street. Presumably not everyone who lives on your street is a criminal or suspicious, yourself included.

By all accounts your new neighbour has done nothing wrong and sounds like a quiet, considerate neighbour.

I never said they were up to no good.
My thread was started to highlight strange behaviour.

Sounds dreadful. No one should have to put up with leaving next to criminals or ex criminals. I just can’t understand how a decent family has to deal with this. Unfortunately, it seems it will only get worse for decent working people.