How to get rid of undesirable looking tenants??

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Oh so you were getting plenty buggering out there were you

I did actually get asked, 'Go'on, gizza cuddle lovely'

Yeah I was the most womanly thing out there, I ain't that womanly though and its worrying, there were actual 'women' out there also...

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Sally

I did actually get asked, 'Go'on, gizza cuddle lovely'

Yeah I was the most womanly thing out there, I ain't that womanly though and its worrying, there were actual 'women' out there also...

I'd hate to think how manly the women were then.....you my dear are far from.....er feminine!!!

[Red Herring]

The problem is you need to think of something that will be unattractive to the undesirables, yet appealing to the sort of neighbours you really want. The trick of hanging a police coat in the porch used to work well, nowadays it just means you get your windows put in....

I guess if it's the last council house left in the street you could form an association with the other residents, buy it off the council and rent it out to whom you like. My mother and her neighbours did this in their block of flats, only they kept the flat empty as a "guest house" for visitors.

[dizzyblonde]

RH, this is why I have hanging baskets in the front and a reasonably attractive garden compared to most of them. Its not too bad in the back either. We try to keep bikes hidden for obvious reasons covered up outside under the bushes on their side, ones in the shed are covered too, but the garden itself looks like an older couple live there, as theres no hint of kids either.

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by davepreston

org week long party, with yc me tim wilky and a few others no one in there right mind would go within 30 mile of the place

don't drag me into this. I don't scare people, that's the wife job.

However, I suggest you and your neighbours invite the local mormons, jovies and assorted door knockers round whenever there is a viewing. If the prospect of extreme christianity doesn't scare the prospective tenants away, then you be scared they are probably door knockers themselves.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I'd hate to think how manly the women were then.....you my dear are far from.....er feminine!!!

Yes my point exactly...
I think they had to shave more than I did...

Originally Posted by Sally

Get naked?

There is nothing that can't be solved with nakedness.

except maybe hypothermia?

[G]

You have to be a real pain in the bum to undesirable neighbours to get them to move.

My house is a middle 3 storey town house which be purchased new 4 years ago. On one side we had a young couple and they were lovely. On the other side we had a Bangledeshi 'family' and when I say 'family' I mean 6 generations of 'family' in one house.

They were an absolute nightmare. They had lots of young kids which ran around like a herd of elephants and screamed all day. Grandma needed the television on full wack to hear it. Then on top of that they had several cars, some of which would be parked on my front garden and driveway if they ran out of space. They also drove into other peoples vehicles when reversing off the drive etc and then claimed it was the milkman even though a few people witnessed it.

In the end we were at breaking point and getting seriously fed up so we had to start fighting fire with fire. At first it started with being equally noisey back, putting music on at midnight to keep the young children awake... and then it went a couple of stages further, some of which is probably not a good idea to be post on here.

It didnt take long for them to get the picture and move out. They could not sell it because of the recession so now they rent it out and every set of neighbours since have been decent folk.

Bad neighbours can seriously ruin your life.

You either need to be at complete and utter peace with them and just co-exist quitely... or you need to be at war with them until they move out.

[dizzyblonde]

The last people to live on the other side of me, before the current owners, were terrible too G. They moved in with two small kids, which looked angelic. We were on quite good terms, would have a laugh, helped them with a few things, as they were new to the house thing....then after a few months it turned in the Dingles worst scenario.
The kids during summer used to use the side gate as a ladder to get in my kitchen window, they knocked the fence down and trampled all over my garden, their garden grew into a forest, where they left rubbish everywhere, they had drugs delivered at all hours of the night, had parties to go with that, had people sat in cars so drunk at the parties with their music blaring out loud, we had a bloke so high he was weilding a meat cleaver around at the sister of the woman next door at 3am...the list was endless. I had two years of it, I could hear everything that went on through the walls from peeing in the bog to wife beating.
Then they got the house repossessed, after they did a bunk, the bank had to fumigate the place with people in paper protective suits! Then we got the new neighbours for xmas one year after. BLISS