Would you sell up because of a loud neighbour 3 doors down!?

[PRINCEY100]

Hi Everyone,
me and my Husband bought our first home a few years ago, it was an old outdated 2 bed town house, we have since renovated it much to our taste and love it, new bathroom, complete rewire, garden renovation, completely modernised. However we have since discovered that a neighbour 3 doors down from us loves to play exceptionally loud music. they've been reported a few times and are not very approachable. we always had plans to do a loft conversion and extend our kitchen into our garden in a few years time, but im wondering if its worth it or shall we just move. we have put so much into our home and this neighbour is not even next to us yet bother the hell out of us with the music, i dread to think what their next door neighbour feels like also the neighbour next to them also does the same (2 doors down). which we can hear its like concert level. what would you do!

Yes, because I did.
it was actually someone that lived on another street, but their garden backed onto a neighbours garden two or three doors down.

they were horrific, treated their garden like a living room all year round, would sit out there drinking and smoking (I assume this was why they were outside) every single night, with music blaring, they always had friends and groups of teenagers there, so lots of loud talking over one another and often shouting.
several times a week a fight or argument would happen, at least once a month the police would be called.

i reported every week for several years but nothing ever happened so I sold up and moved.
I loved that house so much, but they ruined my enjoyment completely.
I’m glad I moved.

I would move. People who are so inconsiderate won't be likely to change. Try to make sure you are not too close to neighbours if possible though. Not always easy to do unless you go for a detached house.

If you have the means and ability to move then I would. You have no doubt added value to your house already. You also have to consider if doing even more improvements would bring you up to the ceiling price of the road?

Do you know if the neighbour is renting or home owner? If renting then there is the possibility they may move on sooner, but no guarantee. You have to imagine living there for the next 5 years and constantly resenting the noise and the fact you might have spent more money on the house (so feel more compelled to stick it out longer).

We had two sets of arsehole neighbours who were noisy (dogs and DIY). We stayed in the house 6 years....but probably 18 months longer than we should have. We ended up paying an early repayment charge on the mortgage deal we had at the time...so that is another thing to consider as well. Basically don't fix into a deal for too long if you think you might move...

Thanks for your replies...we are actually on a fixed 5 years so have about 3 left, i also just secured a loan against my house to do more improvements. so there's also that....its sad because i love this house, my husband doesn't like moving. this person used to play it a lot during the week but just seems to be weekends now but it pees me off. I'm sure I'm not the only one who hates it, its also played on loud speakers. They have been told off for it so I'm not sure if things will improve. Our home has increased by about 100k in value because of our area, improvements, and general increase in house prices. only thing is when I've looked for houses for sale id be buying something for my current house value that is basically in the state of my house when i bought it. so id have to completely renovate it and start from scratch, also move further out!

damn this sounds worse than what I'm dealing with. why are people like this i literally dont understand! i just want to be able to enjoy my garden after working 40hours a week!!! also who were you reporting them to? council?

damn this sounds worse than what I'm dealing with. why are people like this i literally dont understand! i just want to be able to enjoy my garden after working 40hours a week!!! also who were you reporting them to? council?

Yes I would, but only if I could afford to be detached enough that further annoying neighbour wouldn't be too close to me. Otherwise you risk the same or worse!

We are seriously considering doing the same thing @PRINCEY100 (see my other thread on barking dogs!).

We bought our house last summer after I lost my job and we decided to sell up to be nearer our families. I love our house so much, it's so perfect for us and I could see us being here forever...apart from the noise.

There at least 9-10 dogs in our small terrace of 8 houses, possibly more. They bark at each other constantly and our new neighbour is the worse culprit. It gets left alone a lot and this morning it has been barking on and off for 2 hours already.

I've just made an appointment to view a house around the corner. It needs a lot of work, costs around £70k more than ours, but is detached and has very few neighbours.

I'm not sure what we'll end up doing. The noise can drive you demented, so i really feel for you. We're being very careful not to complain or get into an argument, which could stop us selling.

Wow i feel sorry for you, 1 dog can be a nightmare but cant image 8 and them all making noise...why does he have so many? is he a breeder. dogs barking is something that can be reported to your council if its causing a nuisance.
is the house you're looking at the same price range as your terraced one? the issue i have is that if i move id have to move further out and pay more for something that needs work. ive just about got my house to where i want it and to think of moving really hurts me! :(

This is the problem, its like you are not the normal one if you don't like the loud music. i asked one neighbour who doesn't live right next to me to turn it down on a bank holiday and he shouted at me saying its BANK HOLIDAY!. he did turn it down but honestly do people not realise that others want to relax and not listen to weird techno or trap music on their days off from work. i have no problem with music just don't play it so loud so the whole street can hear it!! One person got a visit from the noise team and went round the street shouting saying they'll find out who it is. this is why people dont approach because they start to get mad.

We moved. It was because our neighbours let their dog bark it’s head off constantly and they put a drum kit in the kids bedroom. We now live in a semi-detached in a really quiet road next to a retired single lady. The silence is bliss.

Sorry I didn't explain it very well...Next door only has 1. The next house has 3, next to that 1, not sure about the next, then 2 each at the next two. I'm sure there are more though. We don't want to report as we would have to declare it in the property information form and then we may struggle to sell.

Our house is end terrace, 3 bed, extended with a beautiful kitchen and 30 metre garden. We bought ours for 195 and the one we're looking at is a bungalow for 270, fairly similar size and detached. We don't have a mortgage (the benefits of moving from the expensive south to the Midlands!) but would have to get one...we're on a low income though so I resent getting into debt because half our street are idiots. I could live with a few but next door is so noisy, I've been in tears this morning.

Good luck with it, there isn't much more disruptive than noisy and inconsiderate neighbours. X

oh your house sounds lovely!. i would be very annoyed at that too. it sounds like you are just surrounded by barking dogs. i'd love to be mortgage free. we bought our house for 280k and its worth around 380 now in a high demand area so if we moved out we could get something pretty special. but it would mean moving away from our families and giving up a house we have so many plans for

I feel your pain. My neighbour loves having loud music on in the garden on a sunny day. It was so loud last weekend that I even had to close the trickle vents on the windows to try to reduce the noise. I have nowhere to escape when he blasts it out. It’s frustrating because I sold my last place due to really noisy neighbours. It drives me demented. I don’t mind if people want the radio on at a low level, that’s fine, but some people really are just arseholes.

We moved because the neighbours on both sides and behind us loved to play loud music constantly, all would have different radio stations on and if one turned up louder the others did too. We were in the middle and didn't use our garden at all because of the music. Neighbours can't be guaranteed but we have moved to somewhere which is detached and the demographic is different, mainly retired couples or young families. We also drove around the street a couple of times on nice days when we were looking to see if we could hear music, did the same at night and we were fairly confident. So far it has been great, and if someone was loud it would impact us less anyway because we are detached.
When it gets to the point that you aren't using parts of your house or don't want to go home, then it's time to move.

To be fair looking back it wasn’t a major problem every single day, most of the time it was just low level, like a NDN who’s a bit too noisy/has their tv too loud/has several kids.
I’d say it got to the point of ruining my day/evening/keeping me awake once of twice a week, more so in the good weather as they would literally be out there from morning until the early hours.

i think there were 5 adults living in the house (I think two or 3 of them were the adult children of the woman who’s house it seemed to be) and quite a few kids, some of them older teens, so it easily seemed like a lot of people hanging out in their small garden constantly.

it was compounded by the fact that we were a really quiet area until they moved in, even in the hight of summer with kids playing out in the gardens you could still sit out and enjoy a book in the sun without being disturbed.