Really Really Angry - This is Going to cost us Thousands

[mumtochloe]

Please please can anyone help with this. We put our house on the market 2 weeks ago as I have a place at university starting Feb 2007 in another part of the country. One day after we put it on the market 2 families from hell moved in - one next door and one opposite and both into rented houses. The ones next door are drug dealers and there are always dodgy characters coming and going at all hours. The family opposite are on benefits and all they do all day every day is sit outside drinking lager, swearing, letting their kids run riot in the road (including a two year old) and playing loud music. This is a road full of terraced houses so them and their friends block the pavement and you can hear them from a mile off.

We have had three viewings so far - one went really well and the man came back for a second viewing but when he arrived for this he took one look at the family opposite and drove off again. The other two went ok but I could tell that although they liked the house this family were putting them off.

I can't complain to the managing agent as I have a different accent to everyone else in the area so if it got out they would make my life hell, but I can't carry on like this. I am seething that we may have to reduce our house or worst case scenario not sell it at all because of these low lives. Please please tell me what we can do about this. I worked so hard to get my place at uni and don't want to have to lose it now.

Thanks

Thanks you all so much for your kind words of encouragement. I really hope we can pull this off and get the place sold. Feel bad for the new people but want better for us.

Fingers crossed hey!

xx

Post back - let us know how it goesx

you must complain ( anon if you want)

to the environmental health about noise.
to the landlord - isit council or Housing association - either way your council housing dept will know.

police - tell them you suspect drugs.

all can be done anon

coudl you offer the families some money to behave while you have veiwings ??

or cider!!

Lol at offering them money or cider!

Custardo - they are both privately rented. I know who is responsible for the house opposite but the one next to us is a private landlord. According to our other neighbour who is a policeman, there are some really heavy characters who go there and they should not be messed with. Feel a bit scared by all this too tbh.

Will post again soon to let you all know how we are getting on.

xx

actually I've had an idea. If you want to find out who the landlord is have a look on the various websites that you know rent properties in your area and contact the estate agents since it may be that they have gone through an agency? You can explain the situation (don't give your name until you have found the right estate agent - if at all). I think that as long as you do that anonymously you will be fine. The agents (if the landlord has one) has a right to pass on this info to the landlord.

Just an idea. Everytime the property next door to us comes up for rent I make a note of who the agency is incase we ever have problems. I would be on to them immediately if there was.

Oh and I think it's best not to get into any discussions with these families because you will alert them to you. Best to keep your head down - really I do think it's the best thing. make them like you and they even help you in the long run - but give them trouble and that's it.

You could complain anonymously but actually police or environmental people would want to know who you are and as I said before that's a really bad move if you don;t want to be caught out later.

There is plenty of time to sell the house before february, by the time autumn arrives they won't spend so much time outside. My only suggestion would be to change agents once they move out of view, as houses that have been in the agent portfolio for a while are not advertised as often as when they first came into the market.

We had a quite unsightly neighbour, of all the valuations we had for the house, the one of the agent that saw the neighbour was 13,000 below the average of the other seven

OMG Chandra - that is shocking. Just goes to showv what a difference having good neighbours makes though doesn't it.

They were outside again last night until gone 11:30pm, not there at all this morning but back again now with avengence - there are bloody loads of them today. They don't send their kids to school either by the looks of it. I am going to write an anonymous letter to the letting agency today and hopefully some of the other neighbours may complain too. They told their immediate neighbour they rent the house of their uncle but when the neighbour phoned the agency to check, they were lying. Maybe they have been evicted before and are trying to avoid it again - who knows - but whatever they are playing at they are stressing us out beyond belief.

Oh well - hopefully my letter may have some effect. Fingers crossed....

Maybe it is actually let to the uncle and they have sublet from him so live there, which may be against the terms of the original lease.

Well I have sent an anonymous letter to the letting agents so hopefully they may rethink their behaviour. The house they are in is a 4 bed house and there are very very few in the area - particularly for the price so if I were them I know I would not want to be evicted.

Then again judging by yesterdays incident I doubt they think like this. Her lovely teenage DD thought it would be a great idea to walk up to a local girl who was born with only one arm and punch her in the head. All the local kids were outside the house yesterday defending the poor girl and the mum defended her daughters actions

We have a viewing next week form an investor at 4pm so needless to say they will all be out in full force by then but he is driving long distance to view and cannot make any other time. Aarggh!