Morning everyone
We bought our lovely ground floor flat with private garden just over 1.5 years ago. It's a old building converted into 6 flats. Yes... You know where I'm going with this.
We are lucky and don't have a mortgage. Just the usual ground rent and service charge. We love our flat and the location is brilliant. We love it
However since we have been here the noise from upstairs has become unbearable. I appreciate that we will hear noise being on the ground floor and in an old building. We are almost in our 50s so are pretty sensible about things.
We, along with other neighbours, have all complained to the freeholder about the noise. It's not loud music just to be clear. Just their family constantly over, over the weekend we have had about 15 hours of children running over floors, jumping, etc. It was unbearable. This has been happening every couple of days for hours on end. Even before lockdown started
Not sure why the children of the family aren't in school
They rent off the freeholder and she has been extremely sympathetic to us and has told them to stop.she admits there are problems with them. However, it has continued. We have even had plaster come off our walls and bit comes off our radiator where the jumping and shuddering has been severe. Our flat cost us over £400k and to see it being damaged almost daily is heart breaking.
A house along the road has just come up for sale. Obviously we would have to get a mortgage of around £100,000 and the downstairs and garden needs a bit of work. Also parking for 2 cars. We could pay this mortgage off within 3 years.
The question is.... Would you stick it out in our lovely flat and see if the neighbours move on. They also have 3 week old baby so I am sympathetic to them and conscious about her feelings and feel that I can no longer complain. Or go for the house. We are leasehold, the flat is freehold.
I bumped into the son of the freeholder the other day who obviously knew of the complaints. He informed me that his mum and had put them on a shorter lease and that she would like them out before the end of the year but feels she can't move them now because of the baby which is understandable. No sure how true this is but he seems a sensible bloke and works for his mum at the company.
We know the lady who is selling the house. She now lives abroad and won't be coming back so is in rush and is willing to wait until we sell our flat.
Any thoughts. The noise and damage is really getting me down now so appreciate any advice or similar situations.