Neighbours grrrrrrrrrrr

[CyberPaddy66]

Ours are not that bad (well most of them aren't), facing the flat we have...

On the left top flat - quiet Man, he's a nice block with his son who keeps himself to himself hence the name quiet man :D

On the left bottom flat - 80's Man, he loves his 80's music and he plays it loud but only after 10am so we don't get woken up too early on his days off, oh and he's loves to swear at his gardening equipment much to the delight of the Mrs

On the right there's a family who just go about their business and don't bother anyone much at all.

Below us Bottom Flat - now this is going to take some time and I've skipped through a lot of it!!!
After moving in below us as a single man who didn't make any noise for the whole year until he got his assured tenancy, he then brought his cousin in to visit him, 6 months of some noise later and he moved out and left his cousin who moved in his girlfriend and they both played their must way too loud. After several complaints from myself his cousin eventually moved out and he came back with a couple of women, one of whom was his wife. Fast forward several months and we get them having visitors of his and her family... all 10 of them in a one bedroom flat for weeks at a time!!! During most of this time the old man who we believe is his father has been hanging about and basically living there, then shortly before I got rushed into hospital with lung problems we found this outside out bedroom window...



Yes that is their back door with all that piled up against it! Several weeks after coming out of hospital I'd been down there about a dozen times to complain about the noise and have now taken to complaining to the housing association about them which seems to be getting the message through... our hope is they move us out (due to health reasons) before then evict them so we get to point and laugh from a distance

So dodgy postman aside I'd say you all have it easy!

[StripyPixieSocks]

Should say we live in an old Victorian house conversion in the upper flat with a shared hallway.

These are two ONE bedroomed extremely small flats suitable for a couple at the most... however they seem to manage to cram 10... yes 10 people in on a ragular basis for weekends and even weeks.

This consists of 5 Adults, 4 toddlers and a teenager all banging doors, kids screaming and running up and down the wooden floors. The kids are running up and down until 3am keeping us awake, if the screaming and thumping up and down isn't enough when they slam the doors they slam them so hard our entire floor jumps!

They now have rats because of the rubbish they left outside and had the cheek to moan at us about them having rats and how they kept them awake at night. If they weren't dirty @ssholes they wouldn't have had rats in the first place!

We've asked them a hundred times to call their housing association to fid the guttering outside our bedroom window that gushes off rain onto the concrete below our bedroom window which keeps us awake and he has done... nothing. He needs to call them because they can only get access to the garden through his flat. It's the same housing association but his flat is managed by another one (for some bizarre reason).

So far there's been the tennant (Mr A) he had his cousin in and then his cousins girlfriend, Mr A moved out and all hell broke loose, music so loud we thought OUR stereo had turned on by itself and turned the volume up to about 10! Eventually they both left and another woman arrived who said she was Mr A's girlfriend (still no sigh of Mr A at this point about 5 months later) then his cousins girlfriend arrives back but now tells us she's Mr A's girlfriend.

Give or take a few strange women arriving and departing with suitcases at dubious points in the night for a few weeks Mr A turns up again (after we report him to his HA because we think he is traffiking immigrants) with his WIFE! Now... it's only been about a week since his apparent girlfriend was living at his flat... colour us bemused.

THEN Dad moves in to this ONE BEDROOMED flat and since then we've had half of the world living down there making our life and absolute nightmare!

I used to have no feelings either way about 'them downstairs' but I absolutely hate them now, lying, filthy, noisy, rude scum!

Not to mention that there's only an internal door between our flat and the hall and their door and we keep coming home to find the front door wide open... talk about being worried about security, not only are we worried about people wandering in off the street and forcing our front inner door we are also worried about just who in the hell is downstairs this week and are we going to come back to a burgled flat.

They have made both myself and OH physically ill with all their nonesense to the point that when we see their family arriving we actually feel physically sick and dizzy because we know we're in for a week or so of noise and arguments!

[SarahJane]

I cant believe that Stripey!

It sounds like they are worse than the neighbours from hell! Is the housing Association not doing anything to help you get rid of them , or at the very least stopping them from being so antisocial?

I am not surprised that both you and your other half are becoming ill....

I wish I could do or say something that would help, but I am still sitting here shaking my head in disbelief that you have to put up with this.

Big hug from me.

[StripyPixieSocks]

Well we keep ringing their HA and they call 'them downstairs' and then it's all quiet for a few weeks then it's back to the same old thing again.

We are keeping a diary, taking photos of all the people who are in there AND we have some spectacular photos of the rubbish (see Cyberpaddy66's post) that attracted the rats!

Thing is as well, CP is supposed to be recovering with NO STRESS and even on his birthday they had the cheek to ring our doorbell and complain because we called their HA and got them into trouble. CP slammed the door in his face before it got nasty. Mr A was telling us WE were being unreasonable and 'they are just children'... yeah children that shouldn't be IN A ONE BEDROOMED FLAT! Aparently it's his 'sister' and her kids and who knows who else who keep arriving to stay!

We're currently forcing the HA to move us on health and safety grounds after we realised the Paramedics couldn't get a chair or stretcher up our stairs when CP was rushed into A&E a few weeks ago. The fact he has Extrinsic Allergic Aveolitis which was diagnosed as being caused by my birds (which we had to re-home) and he has also still having tests as there's something else he may be fataly allergic to is making us worry as dry rats urine can be a cause of EAA also as well as mold from rotting food etc.

He's also on immune stripping drugs which means he has no immunity to pretty much anything at the moment and that is scaring the pants off of us as who knows what 'them downstairs' are bringing in if he is having illegal immigrants in there?! A common cold could kill him at the moment

The sooner we move the sooner our health will improve greatly and they can live in their squalour in peace!

[Mr and Mrs luvpie]

Off Topic, but Durrrhhh So Pat is cyberpaddy66, I must have missed that somewhere along the lines! bit brain dead at times up here! just glanced at this topic and thought oh cp got rushed to hospital with his lung, thats just like sps other half, how strange that two people on the same board would have lung problems recently and complete arses living below them!!

I'm just going to go back to my little hole now.....

Sarahx

[StripyPixieSocks]

Off Topic, but Durrrhhh So Pat is cyberpaddy66, I must have missed that somewhere along the lines! bit brain dead at times up here! just glanced at this topic and thought oh cp got rushed to hospital with his lung, thats just like sps other half, how strange that two people on the same board would have lung problems recently and complete arses living below them!!

I'm just going to go back to my little hole now.....

Sarahx

LOL yep he is one and the same person :D I badgered him to join up here so he could answer the brewing questions instead of me asking him and then posting his replies!

[Thomzo]

Oh SPS and CyberP - so sorry to hear what you are going through. Here's a big from me and best of luck getting rehomed.

Zoe

[Millymollymandy]

Ditto what Thomzo said!

I'm still after reading your posts! I hope you find somewhere else to live soon.

[prison break fan]

I'm never going to moan about my neighbour again! at least not today!! pbf.

[Stonehead]

Jeez Stonehead!! Where do you live?? Sodom and Gomorrah

I used to live in less salubrious parts of London.

Although one of the nude sun bathers was at Bicester.

[yugogypsy]

Teasels make a god prickly summer hedge until your other stuff gets going, try holly, its permanent, you can use it in season, and is spiky enough to deter anything-but put some wire mesh between layers of spiky plants, then she can't cut her way through again-and make it clear to her that if you wanted visitors you'd have put in a gate!

Lois
(yes I've had that kind of neighbour too)

[windy]

lol Yugogypsy...there's a lot of them around.

SPS - I'd get hold of the Environmental Health Officer . They have powers too - I once lived in a very damp house where the landlord did nothing to help despite numerous complaints. When I found a slug in the babies cot I went to the EHO who came round and 'closed down' my house. Meaning we had to be rehomed and the house demolished. They could at least help with the dirt and mess issues....if thats outside, god only knows what insides like :tard: They'll also give the Housing association a kick up the arse. Jeez, really hope it's sorted out soon, it sounds like Hell