Neighbour noise

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We are about to move and tonight a neighbour has come round to say our other neighbours have been disturbing them with noise etc.They are students and not particularly noisy as students go.Certainly not reason to move!We are moving for job reasons BUT dp went round when it was snowy as they were having a do and throwing snowballs etc and he told them to stop arsing about because of noise and risk to cars etc.The neighbour who knocked tonight has never mentioned this before and now I am worried it can affect our sale as I said they were ok but did tell buyers they are students from the start

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You haven't had any issues with the neighbours, can't affect your sale don't worry.

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One last bump as I have to fill out form about disputes etc and don't know what to say as dp complained once when they were making noise with snowballs etc about christmas time.Do I need to declare this on the form?

erm, rude not to aknowledge a post. Good luck.

No you don't have to declare a once off snow ball incident, you would declare any on going issues like neighbour used to park over your drive a bit so you had to ask him to move his car on 14 occasions etc,

Tis all fine, sell your house.

Gibbon said it much more succinctly

Ah glad you could see my post Fizzy

Gibbon I am soo sorry i didn't see your post! I was in such a tizzy last night as we had forms to do and out of the blue this woman came round said her lodger had a barney with one of them and he called her a name about 3 nights ago!We didn't hear it at all but then remembered we asked them to shut up when they were snowballing and being loud in the street just before xmas.It seems from what you say it is ok not to put that incident down.We are about to exchange and this could cause problems as they are just typical students and we were completely honest about it being a student house from day one.

You don't have to put it on the form, there have been no official complaints to any authorities nor have there been any on going disputes.

Send the form and don't stress over it.

Thanks!There have been no disputes full stop apart from dp moaning about snow balls and the cars.

Then you are good to go.

Thanks think we read too much into it as I literally got the forms re nuisance or dispute and then this woman came round.I am now hoping the buyers don't mind the students next door as they didn't ask about them at all although the agent has known from day one and did say one couple who liked the house discounted because of students next door.So stressful

Moving is very stressful but honestly, you have no reason to worry

Thanks Dp getting stressed I think as he complained to them to quieten down once in 19 months and now he thinks we are going to be sued if new people don't like the noise.the other neighbour is now saying today(this am)that she knows we moaned at xmas and thinks we should support her as she finds them annoying AAAAAAAAAh!

Just smile sweetly and say, it was over snowballs. DH askd them to be careful and they were, hardly a 'problem'. We have no issues with them at all. Sorry I cannot lie and say they cause us trouble.

Thanks have just said no on the form so fingers crossed the neighbour doesn't make this out to be something more!We didn't even hear the noise the other night and she didn't either but says her lodger was kept awake and they told her to sod off!We didn't hear any of this but she thinks we must have!Driving me mad now

Honestly, she can say what she likes, you truly haven;t had an on going issues so you have nothing to worry about.

Have spoken to my solicitor as woman down the road is going to call the uni about them and has told us this.My sol doesn't seem to think an isolated incident like a party is grounds for complaint

What a flippin day! Mad woman down the road has lost the plot! 2 parties in 2 years one of which we complained about as involved snow and noise and then this supposed party this weekend that no one else heard bar her lodger.She wants to scupper our sale for this and we are about to exchange.the students had a month off over xmas and go away friday for another month and then leave 20 june until october!This has always suited us as it is so quiet all summer in the gardens.Bloody neighbours

But the whole issue of noise is subjective, noise to one person is not irritating to another.

Cannot see why your solicitor is being all ants in his pants about it. You have not complained, your other neighbour has.

It seems very odd. The form (if I remember correctly and I sold my house 4 weeks ago) says if YOU have had any issues or sent or received any official letters not some mad loon down the street. You answer no, I have not.

You are moving away from the loon down the road, so no you do not have to support her in this or anything else.

Gibbon, loved all your lovely comments, should have been a head patting emoticon.

I agree with you both!
I have done the original form asking if we had issues etc and said no as we don't.
I had a further enquiries one to fill out asking about distrbance or dispute which is ongoing and may affect buyers.I also said no to this but now wonder if knowing she has a problem with them counts.As I said dp told them to shut up when they were making a nuisance of themselves in the snow before xmas but generally they are v quiet.

what happens when you had a legal dispute and you won your case for being harrassed.

do you have to declare this, considering your neighbour wants you to move, and you won the case they started on you, even though they lost.

we are constantly harrassed by the neighbour who has told us to foff, they set us up with stuff and sent solicitors letters to us but we were able to disprove their case and they lost.

we are scared to open the door coz they still hassle us, so we want to move away and start again before we end up in a coffin from fear or worse.

if we won and that was 3 years ago do you still have to reveal this, or, if it is done and dusted is it a closed case, therefore we dont have to mention it, and also say nothing about the 'now' unless something transpires.

my husband has a very high end job so we are quite well off (not rich but we have a new car), he does work from 6 til 9 except sunday, this is the problem, because he travels he comes back late goes early has to defrost the car as we have no garage, and this has been the foundation for the grief, but the grief got nasty and personal, they used their cats poo from cat litter and at night spread it all over the car. we couldnt prove this but everyone knows they are the only house on the estate with a cat, however we could prove the other hassles, so they were told legally to stop or we would go for damages, we won they backed down and nothing since, so we want to get out now while its quiet.

do we tell all or not.

a scared lisa

Lisa - check with your solicitor BEFORE you even put your house on the market (as we did) just check whether it would be classed as a property dispute or a personal dispute.

If it is classed as personal then you don't declare it, but even if it is a property dispute firstly you only need declare it when you fill in the paperwork NOT when someone views and secondly your solicitor can word it nicely and downplay it.

Basically it is all to do with the buyer asking the RIGHT questions, for this house we asked specific questions relating to things we were worried about.

Also don't worry if your neighbour starts ringing your estate agents telling them stories - see this article on the garden law website about what the estate agent can pass on to buyers -basically nothing. here

I lived in fear too, every time we had a viewing I crapped myself thinking my neighbour would come out and start gobbing off. I got out, and now live in a lovely house. I know how it feels to dread going home wondering what the mad old loon will do next.

Gardenlaw is a great website for advice by the way. MN is fab too