Noisy neighbour

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So we have a noisy neighbour, don't want to say the type of noise but the neighbour is 70's. We've lived here for 7 years and tbh have just let him get on with it mostly only having to say something a couple of times. However recently it's been stepped up abit saying its because he can hear tge dc sometimes. Now we both work ft and are out of tge house 7 am -6 pm 4/5 days a week.

Now I do not feel Tgey are excessively noisy and certainly less than him. We have always been bothered but as he was here first and is on his own have felt sorry for him. But to start making more noise cause he feels we've made noisy has hacked me off. He's started being very noisy in tge evenings and when dh went to check he was ok one day admitted he was doing it as he was annoyed at us.

Wwyd? Dh wants to complain to tge council, lim worried this may affect us selling tge house in tge future help!!!

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The first thing I say to a client that asks me this question is - do you have plans to sell your house any time soon? If yes, DON'T EVER COMPLAIN! If no, I doubt complaining would help much either TBH. He has admitted he is doing it to annoy you. If he knows it does annoy you, I'd say he'd do it more.

You may not think your DC are "excessively noisy" but they're obviously noisy enough to piss him off and make him retaliate! I'd ask him when he finds your DC noisy - it could be that they thunder up and down the stairs like mine, and you're so used to it, you don't think it's excessive.

If you've lived harmoniously for seven years next door to him, my instinct would be to try and sort it out between yourselves rather than complaining to the council about an elderly man who feels the nuisance is mutual.

Thank you SuedeEffectPochette totally my thoughts.

AP I haveno doubt at times they are noisy, one has hit tge terrible twos with gusto HOWEVER I think it is he who has no appreciation for how noisy he is. It's only been like this previously because we have let it slide, it has bothered us but we didn't want to fall out with out neighbour. We have been very generous with this and other things. But if he's going to resort to such childish games what can I do?

Take him round a cake, apologise for any noise and explain that it's the terrible twos. I find that cake often works wonders! I should add, this is not legal advice, although I sometimes think cake would sort out lots of problems that end up in court too!