Neighbour problems and selling

[Jazzmin]

A couple of years ago my neighbour had an official police warning for harassing me, intimidating behaviour etc. Nothing triggered this (weirdly I think it stemmed from jealousy) and it stopped after the warning. Now I have sold my house as I am relocating and am filling in the neighbour bit, and am overthinking what to write. I will ask my solicitor for advice, but just wondered if anyone has any experience of this? Everything I try writing sounds daft and like there was more to it, but can’t really write ‘ neighbour took irrational dislike to me’. I wondered whether to get my estate agent to mention it first, but would that make it into a bigger deal?

What did they do to you exactly?

As the behaviour has stopped, do you need to declare it at all?

If you do, make sure you emphasise as much as you can that there's been no harassment since the Police told them to stop, it's NOT an ongoing issue.

Something like past issue with neighbour at no. X but all has been resolved and we are now amicable. You could mention the year too to show how long ago it was.

Thank you. I believe I do need to declare any formal complaint. It was verbal abuse, staring in my window etc. We ignore each other now, which is bliss.

I echo what NachoNachoMan said. We had a neighbour who carved away the supporting bank to our garden. We had to involve our solicitors. All eventually resolved as he had to get PP for and build new supporting wall. We just detailed all this and it didn't hold up the sale in any way.

I had a similar issue with my neighbour and am just going through selling process. I just wrote we had boundary issues in the past, which were rectified in 2017. For good measure I included solicitors letter saying the file had been closed.
Good luck

Our neighbours are lovely and I feel really bad about the bastards who are buying our house and who will no doubt be a pain in the arse.

It would be easier if there was a dispute which started it, but there wasn’t. Unless I can put ‘ neighbour said my new car was f-ing hideous’ and didn’t stop going on about it... it started a relentless barrage of comments about my weight, height, hair, friends etc etc. Like a personal vendetta I guess.

Neighbour pushing boundaries and you took appropriate action which solved the problem on (date)

Yes you do need to declare it, but being completely honest if I was your buyer, I would pull out, so I would be very careful with how you word it.

Yes to be clear OP - the problem is that someone taking a weird and aggressive dislike to a person for no reason is definitely a problem that could recur with the new buyers - because it was baseless and sounds like your neighbour has some kind of personality disorder? So although the situation is resolved for you now, it could potentially recur for your buyers - the underlying issue hasn't necessarily been resolved, IYSWIM?

So therefore it IS important to declare it, but you need to tread a line between pointing out that it's 'ancient history' and was resolved a while ago, while not unduly highlighting the risk of a recurrence which could well spook your buyers...

I think Nacho's suggested wording is good and I'd run it by your solicitor before proceeding to check you are adequately covering yourself - esp with previous police involvement you need to avoid a situation whereby they have issues and come after you for failing to disclose your experience.

Good luck!

Thanks. None of the other neighbours have experienced this, so hopefully the new owners will be the same!

I'm afraid I would pull out of the sale too in those circumstances. Verbal abuse for no reason is worrying. So you need to be careful what you write. Wasn't there something that triggered it.

Does general harassment really count as a neighbour dispute? If so, where is the line drawn exactly?
I'd get proper advice, but would err on the side of not declaring anything.

I agree with Furier. There was nothing about this that was property related, it was purely personal.