So, if you were renting a house and thinking of buying it, would you be put off by the following:
a divorced neighbour on his own who is clearly rather fussy. He complained about us being over the edge in our shared, adjacent parking place and said we had marked his van (not true).
He has gone out of his way several times to tell us stories about the garden as it was when the landlord lived here. He said it was filled with trees which took his light and climbers which grew next to the fence and how he cut them all down when the landlord was out one day and threw the cuttings back over the fence which caused 'a right row'.
He has repeated various stories about students who lived here who, he claimed, were using an air rifle to shoot from the house into the garden and he banged on the door and gave them a right talking to. He also complained about them playing loud music and parking everywhere (probably to be fair this is what often happens when you live near students).
He complains about his neighbours on the other side who 'go on holiday all the time'. We were away over Christmas and he rushed up to my husband the other day to complain that now we were doing that too and 'oh, btw, did you really go away on holiday and leave your central heating on all the time?' Presumably he saw the exhaust from the condensing boiler exiting into the garden.
He keeps his somewhat bare garden mown to the cm. I like gardening and intend to plant and cultivate the garden here, if we buy the house. This guy has a bustling, verbose nature and I am worried that he is going to be a problem. He goes track racing and in addition to his van keeps a car, minus wheels, up on bricks in his drive!! We don't actually see him that often though.
We've asked the landlord about any history of rows and he claims there has been nothing. My question is, on the basis of what I've said, would buying this house be a 'no way' for you?
