Neighbours in rental properties

By : Forum Member
Published 8th July 2016 |
Read latest comment - 15th July 2016

Apologies in advance if I offend anyone living in a rented property. I know that some people take the view that they don't own it so why should they bother.

I live in a maisonette that has a residents car park and communal access driveway to the garage block.  A builder has recently moved into one of the properties and is causing problems for residents by driving his van constantly up and down the driveway, blocking access to residents cars, using parking spaces for turning round and driving over front gardens (including mine).

Going out tomorrow to buy a large rockery stone to place on end of front garden.  Tried a DIY shed and local builder's merchant today, with no luck.  Other neighbours not impressed with his behaviour.  

Rant over, until I find out how much the stone will cost......

 


JuliaP
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Don't really see an issue using parking bays to turn around ,but driving over garden etc is not right..In saying that our neighbour got fed up with the same thing and has built a iron railings around his garden .He's done it as cheap as possible so if anyone hits it it will be easy to replace lol ...All he used were iron bars for down supports and iron rods for cross bars ..Maybe look for something like that. I'm sure a iron monger could knock them up in no time


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Andy-C | Pewter World

Not casting aspersions, but we recently had a neighbour who decided it was ok to drive over peoples front lawns. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, and the obvious tyre tracks, I wouldn't have believed it.

Stereotype alert, but it's a rented house with East Europeans, and a Welshman  The couple who rent the house are fine, and have been round for a beer and very hospitable. But one of their sub tenants seemed to struggle with parking, and drove across my elderly neighbours front lawn regularly, so I had to go round and have a polite word. Then our neighbour who still drives, sometimes had problems getting on her drive because "visitors" would park across her drive, prompting another polite chat.

I remember renting houses when I was younger, and wouldn't dream of driving across a lawn or blocking someones driveway, but wouldn't think twice about being noisy at night, and now cringe years later 

So maybe it's the fact you are renting that can make someone less thoughtful, or maybe it's an age maturity thing?

Big rock sounds good, just go and find a couple in the countryside and get a male friend to lift them for you 


Steve Richardson
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Large rockery stone cost £3.99 from a local garden centre.  Have now added smaller stones around it from garden and must admit it looks good.  More importantly, it's solved the problem!!


JuliaP

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