How to deal with neighbours Landlord.

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Basically I’ve been having issues with my neighbour for well over 2 years.

Anti social behaviour but not quite illegal if that makes sense, stuff the LL should deal with.

i called him a few times but he didn’t do anything until neighbour exploded in shared garden one day and I wrote an official complaint to him.

He visited Tenant said all was denied but if I have evidence to show him, offered this he said don’t want to see it but take it to the Police. So again washed his hands.

Things were quiet for a bit apart from the odd heckling trying to get us to start back but we don’t. Then the shared garden gets split ( I’ve another thread about this) I contact him as the homeowner as am I, he said he knows, it’s a good fence. It’s a bloody eyesore! The whole garden is a state and it stinks.

Is there somewhere to seek help from regarding LL if you are not the Tenant?

The fence is being looked into at the moment and just awaiting deeds.

Your relationship with the tenant is not really the landlord's business. The landlord doesn't owe you any legal duty over the tenant's behaviour any more than the bank does for a neighbour who lives in their house with a mortgage. If the landlord is happy with the tenant then any issues of antisocial behaviour are between you, the tenant, the council and the police.

Thank you for the reply, I honestly didn’t realise the Landlord didn’t have an obligation.

I assumed, wrongly, that it would fall under the Tenancy agreement.

As a landlord I have intervened on the odd occasion but there is no legal obligation to do so over neighbourly disputes

If they are breaking their tenancy agreement - for example letting drains get blocked or letting the garden get overgrown/covered in rubbish which attracts rats, then yes, I give them written notice to rectify the situation per their agreement

It sounds like most of your issues are antisocial and so should be reported to police if it becomes illegal or threatening, or environmental health if it's to do with noise or rubbish/cleanliness

It’s a tricky one, I am landlord and I am mindful of the impact tenants have on the neighbours which is why after years of renting to students I’m moving out of that market. But it’s true, the landlord doesn’t have to get involved in his tenant’s neighbourly disputes. It could be that you make life awkward for the LL by repeatedly raising these issues and he decides it’s not worth the grief to renew the tenancy. But equally, if the tenant is paying rent on time and looking after the property, no matter how unpleasant they are to live next to, the landlord probably won’t do anything. If the tenants actions are jeopardising the property in any way then he’s more likely to want them out.

Report your neighbour to the council for antisocial behaviour

If this neighbour really is that bad then why are you bothering with the landlord?
I'm not sure what the neighbour's done but if it's really anti social behaviour there's a department at the council/environmental health who deals with neighbours' anti social behaviour and you can report it to them and they'll deal with it

Sounds like the Landlord isn't interested so I am guessing the rent is being paid. The LL will probably only become interested if the Tenant falls into arrears. If the "garden us a state and it stinks" you coukd go down the Environmental Health Dept route, they may force the Landlord to rectify. If the Tenant is vulnerable or has mental health issues and the rent is being paid, the Council will not want to have to rehome him. They will see his living arrangements as being met.