Should I report neighbours

[Littlroo]

Hopefully I’m in the right place to get advice but my neighbours obviously have a hoarding issue also it’s a 4 bedroom house and there’s only 3 adults living there should I report them the house is housing association

Housing won't 'provide' you with a one bed!!!

How naive

Hope the neighbours all report you for being a nosey busy body!!!! 😂

So you are nosying through their windows and see boxes? Is it really "hoarding" or is it the normal consequences of having work done? It is pretty normal to be required to pack your stuff into boxes while having work done and for rubbish to be placed outside until removal.

If it was really as bad as you claim then I'm not sure that the workmen would agree to work in there.

Is it just me wondering if OP has flounced off because she's possibly is your neighbour 🤔

I'm in a suspicious mood today 😅

I am convinced it is my neighbour @Peach0123 . There are too many similarities. We've even covered one front window up with blackout blinds because she kept staring in at the boxes of XH's stuff near the window.

Re: boxes and bags being brought out when the workman comes in that's not true but I have been bringing lots of bags and boxes out of the house just before a man dressed as a workman comes to my house. It's my dad and he's coming to take the bags and boxes to the tip for me because I don't drive.

XH passed away last year and all his stuff came here when his house was put on the market. I was in the process of decorating when it happened so there is a lot going on atm and a lot of things coming in and out of the house.

If it is her I don't think she is a bad person, I do genuinely believe she is unwell and needs help, perhaps with OCD or something similar.

you sound like an unpaid stasi agent, mind your own business for gods sake, imagine thinking of reporting people in their own home because you dont like how much stuff they have in THEIR garden and you dont agree that they should have a house that size, they are elderly and reared their family there, doesnt matter if it is just 2 of them, people are entitled to their family. Mind your own business for Gods sake, i bet you are a barrell of laugh at parties, you were probably reporting people for going for 2 walks during covid. Neightbours snitching is really scraping the barrell of nosy neighour behavior

But how is this your business?

This is a very strange post. The housing association is very unlikely to do anything about under-occupation especially as they may not have another property to re-house them.

You sound like a nosey neighbour

What if they come back?

It stuck out to me with how similar things in your posts are. It's her.

Sounds like you've had a really tough time and this is not helping. Ignore her and get what you need done in peace, the general advice on this thread is she minds her own. Hopefully that will happen.

Busy body - mind your own business.

How would you even know if they're aware or not?

Do you have a job, OP? Hobbies?

Just struggling to understand how someone with either or both have the headspace to worry about who lives where, and whether they hoard or not. Get out for a walk, or get another hobby, and I can guarantee when you focus on yourself more, and others less, you'll be much happier and less bothered by other people in their own home.

I'm close friends with my direct neighbours and honestly couldn't tell you this much info about them.

Horrible person.

The neighbours complaints don't really bother me anymore. They used to. I've posted a few threads over the years about her bonkers complaints but it just goes over my head now.

The complaint about the "eyesore" garden a few weeks ago upset me only because I had actually started the garden the week before she complained. I never did the garden. XH did it for me and I'd spent a year on my knees with grief and depression hardly able to do more than force myself out of bed to go to work after he passed.

I'd finally got to a place where I was having more good days than bad and made a start on the garden, which I will admit was an eyesore, and it was helping, being out in the sun and being active and then I got a letter from the HA.

If she'd complained the week before when I hadn't started it, I would have understood but complaining once I've made a start just felt unnecessarily spiteful and cruel.

I do admit I had a little cry when I got that letter but I'm back to having more good days than bad again and I'm still pushing forward with fixing things up inside and outside of the house. I still have bad days and days where it all feels too much but I'll get there.

I feel a bit sorry for the neighbour, tbh. It must be so stressful to constantly concerned about what your neighbour is doing when you have no control over them. And I feel even more sorry that the bags and boxes coming in and out and the piles of "hoarding" next to the shed are gonna last a while because I am one person and I work full-time. My house has an inside as well as an outside and all of it needs redecorating and organising.

The family that have to move out, the elderly couple and the man the other side - where are they going to go to live?

Also, it's not normal to be looking through your neighbours windows. Whether that's close up, or from a distance, in order to spy on them (and it is, spying) to find out information about them.

If I were your neighbours and you were watchng through my windows I'd be reporting you to the police. What a nuisance neighbour you are, and an unhinged one at that. Your behaviour is far more harmful, in my opinion. I'd be quite frightened if you were watching us through our windows.

Get help, because your obsession with your neighbours is going to land you in trouble one day.

Maybe she wants to get together with the separated dad or the adult son and move in by stealth 😂

The neighborhood tattletale has come to call. Neighbors, hide your laundry piles and extra rooms and sad tales of woe, TT has got her binoculars out and is ready to file her report.

The solution to people like this (tattletales) is to report them. I’m sure something nefarious can be brought to light with a little digging….

like peeping through neighbors’ windows.

It's irrelevant how many people are living in the house, they probably pay bedroom tax.

If there's a huge mess affecting other people them it would be Gairloch enough to report it

I'm a retired local authority housing officer. Firstly the HA may well be aware that there is rubbish in the garden, if there is of course. Secondly, we would always, very gently, encourage people who were under occupying to apply for a transfer. At one point we offered financial inducements to encourage tenants to move. BUT we couldn't force tenants to move, many will move in their own time some people need to get over a traumatic event before they are ready. Marriages ending, death or other events mean that tenants need time. If they pay their rent etc then they can stay.
Please don't be a busybody, your neighbours will find out.

Fair enough*

OP, everyone has basically already said what I am thinking. If I was you I would keep an eye on my own life rather than other people's.

As for the rat you allegedly saw-have you any idea how bad the rat issue is in the UK? I hope the council put you in your place- of we all reported a sight of a rat they would be inundated.

''On Snitchy street!'' {A take on 'Beasley street'}

Jeez, fancy being such a busybody and curtain twitcher you notice what your neighbours are doing!

My neighbs away for Twelve days with their DC and I didn't notice they'd gone as they are so quiet.

Live and let live.