1 Topic by westendsweetie

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Topic: students

i have been living in my groundfloor apartment for 6 years now. It is a block of 4 and was an old hospital converted so the walls are thick 10ft ceiling and granite stone. My neighbour upstairs when i moved in was a middle aged business man who lived there during the week and went to his own home at weekends, about 3 years ago he started to let out his apartment which caused me no problems at all, however about 3 months ago new tennants moved in, students. I started on freshers week party  everynight they would go out about 11 come home about 3 and start again. I am a nurse and need to get up at 530 i knew the landlord and where he worked and contacted him he wrote back and said he would inform the letting company,They wrote to them. i did try and talk to them but they never answered the door, the noise stopped for about a week and its started again they also choose to walk about with shoes on and they have wooden floors and its not insulation as i never heard previous neighbours, I have again contacted the landlord and stated that i will seek legal advice and advice from the council but i am unsure if i have a case.

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  • Registered: 29 October 2009
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Re: students

I live in a mid terrace and have problems with neighbours on both sides, students on one side and a family on the other.  I have spoken to the landlord of the students, who in fairness has spoken to them and so far so good.  The family on the other side have a young child who often goes to bed later than I do.  Consequently I have to put up with him screaming and having tantrums because he is so tired.  Then the parents start shouting at the child.  They also play dance music and although not overly loud, I have to put up with a constant boom, boom through my walls.  Anyway, I've decided enough is enough and it's time to put my house on the market.  I realise this is going to take some months and I'm just going to have to live through it but does anyone know, if I do contact the council for support will I then have to declare it when I sell my house.  It is so annoying as I own my house and both my neighbours rent.  I'm so fed up.  After reading other peoples posts, I realise my problems are not major but it is starting to get to me and I dread coming home from work because I never know what I'm going to have to put up with.

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3 Reply by Milkshake

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Re: students

We too have students as neighbours.  We live in a terraced house and are planning to move this year to a larger property, with our decision hastened by the new neighbours on one side.  Our neighbours on the other side are on professional degree courses / post-graduates and are barely audible.  On the other side however, we seem to have a group of nocturnal individuals, who spend most week nights playing music quite loudly in the room adjacent to our bedroom.  We have telephoned the agency which lets the house, who informed us that our neighbours next door-but-one had also complained, resulting in the agency sending two letters asking them to tone the noise down.  They have not.  We have been advised, by the agency, to involve the police, as the agency believes it may give them food for thought.  I have begun keeping a record of the noise level, timings etc (music frequently starting at about 4am), but am reluctant to involve environmental health or police authorities as I don't want to cause any dispute which would adversely affect the forthcoming sale of our house.  I am getting increasingly frustrated with these individuals and entirely sympathise with people on this forum who have problems similar to us.  I'm tempted to resort to retaliation tactics out of desperation but acknowledge that this is likely to perpetuate the problem.  We are due to have some renovations done soon, so I'm hoping that this will cause the smallest degree of annoyance to them, and may make them reflect on their own behaviour (yet I very much doubt this).

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