Hi,

I bought my house about six months ago, the house is great, but the neighbour on one side is a pain in the arse! I'm not going to go into the whys and wherefores, but it is bordering on harrassment as pretty much daily she has something to complain about - these have included such gems as leaving our bins outside the front of OUR house is disgusting and we should have them round the back, we are living in sin by not being married, and we are not allowed to cut the bushes on our side of the boundary as it makes her garden less private...

Her latest complaint is that she has a water tank and some asbestos in her garden that apparently belongs to us. I have never even seen these items let alone put them in her garden - it is possible however that the guy who owned the house before us put them there as she is adamant that they have come from our house, where do I stand on this? Surely I am not responsible?

Also, we own our house, she rents hers...

Help!

Tell her to **** off, prove it's yours and quit the harrassment & jibes or you're going to burn her house down while she's asleep inside ;)

Failing that see if these people can offer you some advice: http://www.nfh.org.uk/

tell her to shove it.
we ignore one of our neighbours completely for similar reasons.however over the years i have taken dlight in doing all sorts of stuff that she is legally obliged to allow.i.e builders access to maintain my property.i removed a 4 foot fence (that was knackered) with a 6 footer that now shades her leylandii that were growing over onto my garden.
it's all tit for tat but if they don't want to be pleasant just keep yourself to yourself & within the law.
mine complained that rain water was dripping from my gutter onto her property & flooding her garage -how she knew it was my rain water i 'll never know.

Ignore her.!


She's trying it on ,trust me i am a woman, i know these things.

For a start she sounds off her trolly. Everything else is basically c**p. She can't prove the stuff in her garden belongs to you can she? & if the previous people did it why has she waited to ask you to move it instead of them. It's on HER property, not yours. Hence HER resposibility.

And you can do what you want with your own garden, bins & anything else. What you do on your property is YOUR buisness & there's nothing she can do about it.

Try ignoring her demands (politely), and then if she carries on tell her in a nice, but firm way .that if she does not stop this harssment that YOU will report Her to her landlord. See if she like's that one.

In the meantime enjoy your new home and take no notice of this woman.

Ring the council and tell them about the asbestos...they'll send men in white suits round to clear it up and give her a hefty bill

She might be related to Vicky Pollard.

yeh but, no but, urr,

Sounds just like her to me. :smile:

IMPORTANT,
get in contact with MESH, Mediation Sheffield.
They are a free and voluntary mediation service, they are nnot conected to the council, courst etc.. so they are really good.

give them a good

Originally posted by DaBouncer
Tell her to **** off, prove it's yours and quite the harrassment & jibes or you're going to burn her house down while she's asleep inside ;)

Hahaha ... very good!

Tell her to fuok off and make someone elses life a misery.

If you are intending on selling in the next few years don't report her, as it will go against you selling.

If you are staying report her.

Are the bushes in the front garden hers or yours? If they are yours then just hack away as you please. If they are hers just hack away as you please (on your side of the boundary) then take the clippings round to her to dispose of.
I believe you are perfectly within your rights to trim any overhanging bushes or trees but you should return the bits you removed as its their property. :hihi:

How old is this woman? If she's say into her 70s then she may just be suffering from some sort of dementia type illness; a lot of old people get a bit paranoid and think their neighbours are out to get them and so on. If she's that old then you could perhaps show a bit more understanding while at the same time ignoring her on the grounds that in a couple of days time she may have forgotten about it altogether.

I'd agree with all of the above but I do think it inconsiderate to leave bins out when and where they could easily be brought back in. I don't know what it's like around your area but around here when bins are left out they get kicked over, rubbish all over the place, the look unsightly, they block the pavements for parents with prams/wheelchair users, visually impaired etc. Surely it's not too much of a burden to take them out for collection and bring them back in on the same day? Two doors down from me leave the bins out and I'm forever shoving them back into their passageway thanks to their laziness. What happened to civic pride, do people enjoy living on rubbish dumps?

All the bushes are in my garden, they're just big so provide privacy to her, they're not very nice looking bushes though and I don't want them in my garden...

My bin is not left out on the pavement, nor is it in anyones way. It is in my front yard on my property. The reason I don't take it round the back is because I have to navigate through a common right of way which passes through her garden to get into mine, and I'd just rather not as I know she'll complain about something, it's a lose-lose situation.

tell her to basically f*** off you can do what ever you want on your own property .i would put up a ten foot fence so that she could not see anything to complain aboutas i bet she is like my neighbour who stands in the window all day just watching for someone to do something wrong or waiting for the kids to play then harrassing them all the time.they are sad people who have nothing better to do but meddle and interfere.my neighbour son still lives at home at 50 and you know that he is just going to be the same when he grows up (ha ha).she always gives it that one that my lads never used to do any thing wrong ,but then after doing a bit of asking around found out a different story and now throw it back at her every time she starts.she will never win with me.stick it out and show her who is boss

ps also keep a diary of every thing times,dates ,and what is said and done

i lived next door to a rented property, and believe me there is nothing you can do.
I reported my neighbours to the police and the letting agents. All they said to me was that they hadnt made any damage to the property they was renting so that was all that matters.
So basically they can do anything they want to your property and get away with it.

hevydevy - one thing I would advise is to start bringing your bins round the back. Once you stop usng a right of way you can have trouble with your neighbour over it. I have one myself and I only use it to take bins out, but I make sure I do as my neighbour has a habit of putting all kinds of junk out to block it up, so I make sure I retain the right.

Just quietly exercise your rights and try to ignore her if she's a pain, don't get into any fence wars!

I had a similar incident with a council tennent earlier this year. last year I went round to her house and asked her if she would mind us cutting the tops off of the self set nasty trees at the bottom of her garden as they were cutting all the light/sun from our garden, she said she would ask her son and get back to me, we had borrowed a Chainsaw from someone but by the time she had got back to me to agree the chain saw had been returned.
So this year (4 months later) we bought a Chainsaw and proceeded to cut down the trees, she went absolutely barmy and said she had changed her mind and she had told all the other neighbours, I pointed out that we were the ones wanting to cut them down so perhaps she should have informed us.
she went on to tell me I'd live to regret it and to expect a visit from the council and her son.

I called the citizens advice bureau and they said as it was a rented property and ours was private there was nothing she could do.

She hasn't spoke to me since, There has been no sign if her son or the council, but my garden has seen the sun this year!!

I can live without barm pots like that, As I am sure most of us can, tell her to mind her own business, perhaps if she had a little more going on in her life she wouldn't be so interested in yours!! don't fuel her arguments just ignore her and go about your business. she'll soon get bored if there is no one to argue with!

You cut down the trees in her garden? Or just near it? Were they over hanging your property? Sorry, just a bit confused as to the situation.