Would you buy a house right next to a council house?

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When I say right next door, it's one half of a semi. The other half is the council house. Most in the (small) avenue seem to have been sold off to private ownership, but the one attached to the one I like, has not (I don't think).

It's £400k FFS!

I lived next door to council tenants once.
None of their purchases were organic or from M&S fgs!
I saw the young ones gnawing on a turnip in the garden and they had bare feet!

Oh and my house is a semi detached property too

No I wouldn't because if they are nightmare height ours it will be

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Very difficult to get the council to do anything about it

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I'd imagine a lot of them are doing so from their comfy middle class homes that are a million miles away from a council house.

I'm in a comfy middle class home just feet from a council house.

I'd rather live next to a council house with a family in it than next to a house which is an HMO or student house.

I used to live in a council house next to private renters, the private renters next door and (and a few others on the estate) where awful, drunks who I had to call environmental health on a few times for loud music and parties. I found the privately owned and council rented where better as they where more invested in their properties than, say, private renters who moved more etc.

Loads of council tenants work/are normal people who for whatever reason where perhaps without a home for a bit. Then got back on their feet. Remember all of us are only a few steps away from being homeless and not all people in social housing are 'antisocial alcoholics', quite the opposite. I lived in social housing for years, have 2 degrees, a stable life now, a good job etc but moved out of social housing a few years back due to limited choice of area.

Some people need to get over their stereotyping!

You've got even less chance of getting anything done about privately own or rented houses,

Its just bloody silly.
There is a shortage of council properties so the majority (in many areas) of social tenants are going into private rented.
So that non council house you buy next to could be rented out on insecure tenancies with a high turnover.
Not forgetting all those problem tenants who were previously in council but lost their properties and now out on their own in the private sector.

We live in a council property, no intention of moving. I'm a nurse and DH is a chef in a very good London restaurant.
I assume we wouldn't be good enough to live next door to either?

It is bloody silly and downright insulting to those on here that are HA or council tenants.

I live in a council house.

If I can ever afford to buy I would not buy somewhere next to a council house especially not attached to one.

I have had some lovey neighbours but also some awful ones and when they are awful you are pretty powerless. If you complain things usually get worse.

400k.. don't do it.

Honestly, if I was you OP, I wouldn't buy it, I think you would drive yourself mad looking for things to worry about, you'd permanently be uneasy about who your neighbours would be. If your looking at the house with the attitude you clearly are, you'll never be happy in it. If you can get the fuck over yourself then you might be ok, but otherwise, no.

Please don't buy the house. For the sake of the neighbours, poor people.

OP I think this thread just proves you can have awful neighbours whether they are private renters, social or privately owned. And tbh my worst neighbour where private renters.

My best advice is to do what I have done and live in a detached house!

My in laws (a nurse and an engineer) were lifelong council tenants, my DH (a soldier at the time) moved into a council house when he married his first wife. We bought our house when we had DS. Clearly the rental status of a person does not necessarily correlate to their interests, profession or aspiration, it just means that they don't have a mortgage at that time. Should DH not now own a house because he is one of those people not on the same wavelength as a homeowner? At what point does a person become on a similar wavelength - is it just at the point of getting a mortgage?

I find this sort of attitude depressing. And so what if a person can't afford to buy a house? As long as they are decent neighbours, their financial status is none of your business! Maybe they work in the public sector and don't earn £100k per year, maybe they have been made redundant and don't have savings.

My house is next door to a council house. Our neighbours are completely different to us and can be a pain in the neck but it's not because they are poor, it's because they have different values because they are, you know, individuals. I.would find them a pain even if they owned the house.

I'm a HA tenant & to be fair I don't think you're being completely unreasonable. I've had some shitty neighbours, drug smells, unexpectedly coming & shouting at me while
I was on my own with my baby, music being played all night.

But then to be fair you could end up with great neighbours. We're just a normal couple with 2 kids who work (when I'm not upduffed & sick) & like a nice normal life, my friend & her partner both have great jobs, normal kids etc, my nan & grandad are in a council house.

But then people who own houses can also be arsehole like my mums neighbour who for god knows what reason just turned nasty one day, parking over her drive & snapping at her etc

You get all sorts everywhere

Everything flappyrose said

I am lucky enough to get a council house and my bought neighbours either side are lovely. I do the mans next door garden as he is elderly. But flip the coin, I could be renting next to idiots who had bought/inherited the house and after all the work I've put in and all the money I've spent making it habitable and homely I'd lose it all if I moved and my neighbours were crap. I still think you run the risk either way. If it's owned and rented out you can complain to the landlord but if they are not interested what can you do? If it's conciliatory tenants you can complain if they are being unreasonable or anti social.

We both work , full time, him in local government , me in retail earning too much for any kind of benefit including any tax credits
We both drive cars , his brand new , mine an old hunk of metal but I love it
We have a 50" tv in the living room , tv in every room , full sky package , Virgin downstairs too
Wood flooring throughout
A 16ft pool in the back garden
A pond with koi in
Oh and we are in the middle of buying OUR COUNCIL HOUSE !
What exactly is your problem with people like us OP ?
Clearly we are if a different species

Oh and I forgot to add . My next door neighbours bought their house back in the days when they were cheap to buy after just being built
And they're CUNTS
Cunts can buy their house and rent
Cunts are everywhere
Cunts don't discriminate

Snotty cow!!!!!

I'd prefer to live next door to renters, especially if they are arses. Then it's somewhat easier to get rid of them than if they own their house.

My worst neighbour was a social housing tenant. That just means she was a shit, and would have been whether she'd had the money to buy.

I know plenty of social housing tenants and they are all decent hardworking people.

We're shared ownership, so are both owners (well, mortgage payers) and rent off a HA.

I have no idea what most of the houses in our road are - they certainly all started out as council properties, but apart from our immediate neighbours (one side is bought, the other is private rented) I don't know who are owners and who are tenants.

I just know it's lovely here.

Vanillamanilla - it's shit Isn't it. Good for you. We are very similar and I hate it that because I'm in a rented council house some people
Look down their nose at me. My circumstances are such as in this is the logical option for me at the moment. I will buy as soon as I can why wouldn't I and yet I'm still tarred with the same brush as the common thread that council tenants are all bad.