Seller not declaring neighbour dispute

[Hopingtomovehouse]

Hi, we put in an offer on a house. Found out that the seller has complained to the council about their next door neighbour over rubbish in front garden, rubbish includes food that is left to go mouldy and it is attracting rats. Neither the estate agent nor the seller told us about this. It appears other people have made offers and pulled out when they have found out. Not sure how they found out as I believe it isn’t declared on any sellers documents. We offered the asking price, it was offers over, but we didn’t offer over

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i get the impression the OP has out an offer in and. morning further, and she’s heard about this through gossip

either way… i would duck out. Sounds like there’s drama attached to the property

OP is the neighbour

Verges on an attempt to obtain money by deception.

Another reason why we should licence estate agents with a named manager for each place, so that the bad ones can be closed down.

OP hasn't received any paperwork yet, it's got nothing to do with the estate agent.

so obvious then the op put an offer in and someone like a friend of a friend of a work colleague said “blah blah blah”

Bad neighbours are the worst. Walk away

Withdraw your offer, I have neighbours from hell and it is destroying my mental health It is a BTL and is now so run down that if I was in a position to move it would impact on my chances of a sale. I have almost had a breakdown over these neighbours, the effect of living near awful people affects fo many aspects of your life

We almost fell for this. Loved the house and perfect garden very private and then my DH had a look on Google maps before we bought. And noticed some weird issues in the driveway of the semi detached. Google maps let us look at the last few years and the situation had been long standing. We went for another look and from upstairs we could see the garden next door was absolutely full of junk. My MIL asked the seller to her face what was happening next door and she just said oh I'm not sure he just keeps himself to himself. This lady had lived there for 40 years so there was no way she didn't have more info than that so we walked away.

Definitely withdraw your offer. I'm sure my seller last time knew about significant issues with the neighbour and didn't declare it. It almost destroyed my mental health and I lost thousands.

So you viewed and didn’t notice a build up of rubbish in the neighbours garden?

my spidey senses tell me …. i wouldn’t want to be a neighbour of the OP!

pull out, need you ask?

This is what has happened to me although I bought my house ages ago. Next door to me was bought by a landlord, they then let if go to rack and ruin and it got sold at auction but to my despair an even worse landlord bought it and it became an unofficial HMO. I have been close to a breakdown due to the noise, the rubbish and anti-social behaviour .

Oh dear. I wouldn't go ahead with a problem like that to inherit, however good the asking price. And the sellers must know that they should have told you; they may be hiding other things too.

How awful for you. Just goes to show that the most careful planning doesn't guarantee anything.

I’d pull out. If the council have records of the dispute/s, the vendor would be in big trouble for not declaring it on the sale forms - they’re legally binding. You could potentially sue them in respect of this for several years to come if there are ongoing similar issues after sale. It would also make me wonder what else they were hiding.

A parent with two children. Apparently the person has told neighbours that they are a hoarder. It’s good that has been donated and left in garden to rot and other is I think they must collect things and put some of it outside, and rubbish that builds up. I think they do use their bins which get emptied

Trying not to out myself here. It turns out I do know the neighbour and I was surprised as when I have spoken to the neighbour over the past couple of years, they have been really nice. I didn’t know they lived there. Apparently this person is nice, and also a hoarder.

the house is lovely

I would definitely pull out. It could be a serious health and fire risk living next door.

Any hint of problem neighbours would have me running.

On my sisters moving day she passed the seller, who had been delayed leaving. Previous owners closing words were 'good luck with that cunt next door'. ( Turned out the neighbour refused to let the removal van anywhere near his ' bit of pavement ' - and tried to fight them. )

They now have a restraining order against him after a year of threats and violence.

The neighbour may be lovely, but with a hoarder this will only get worse. You will be living next to a rubbish dump and it could invite rats. Aside crom potential hygiene issues, I wouldn’t want to look at that mess every day.

I’m definitely not the neighbour. Information I received is from a reliable source.

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The person was not aware that an offer had been put in. They only knew that we had viewed it

@Hopingtomovehouse Are you able to say roughly what area (or message me). We've got a neighbour like this and several houses for sale, and it's driving all the rest of the residents nuts! We are all trying really hard, I think I've found the details of the actual owner and will be complaining to them!