We recently bought our first home that we saved years for, it’s the perfect starter for us (it’s a large flat in a house conversion).
Since we’ve moved in we’ve being having problems with our neighbour who also bought on the same day with us.
The neighbour is trying to claim communal space as their own, complained if our car is parked at slight angle (on our driveway which is outside their window), they doing building work on the ceiling (our floor) until gone 9pm at night. Most recently we have had work done on some electricity and the electricity point is in their garage. We had found out a few months earlier that we have been paying for the electricity in their garage and has asked them to look to get it split so we weren’t paying (haven’t charged them anything for 9 months of electricity). We have left them a socket in the garage so they can use day to day items until they get it split, but they tried using a hoover which tripped the electricity. Next thing you know he’s threatening the workers at their place of work, threatening them at our home. A week earlier he was asking the electricians to do work for him whilst on our clock.
We have managed to forget about that and try to move forward but they are back at it again trying to claim more communal space (closer to our property then theirs).
We are at our wits end, we have the most beautiful first home which has been ruined by 2 people.
We both love the home, and don’t want them to “win” with us moving out.
We can’t afford to move and break our mortgage, if we do have to move it would probably be back to our parents to save for another 2 years to avoid having to buy another flat.
We would love some advice on how to get through this (we have suggestion mediation and we can’t afford a lawyer)