Neighbour issues

I need some help guys and girls.

We apparently have a neighbour that has a problem with us, we have a suspicion who it is but have no proof.

We moved into our rented home 2 years ago, we have always been quiet, friendly and considerate towards everybody. After 6 months our boy was born and shortly after our lettings agent and landlord got a complaint that we were throwing dirty nappies out of our windows!

Both the lettings agent and landlord knew this was untrue but needed to inform us.

Then a complaint that we were making excessive noise was made, again untrue.

We have communal parking outside our place and as such a new complaint was made that we were parking in other peoples parking spots!

Following this another complaint was made that a communal path behind our rented property was overgrown and was our responsibility to clear, we never use this path as it has no access to our property.

Now I have recently sorn my car and bus, the bus has been parked in the garage and the car in the communal parking with a car cover on. The car is still insured and mot'ed. Today a neighbour informed me that the council have been round and taken photos of my car so I'm expecting a letter from dvla for it being on a public highway, again somebody must have made a complaint.

I have no idea why one of the neighbours has such an issue and have spoken to most of them to try and ascertain what the problem is. Of which all agree that it must be a certain household, who are friendly and pleasant to our faces.

Now what I plan to do is write a letter to the whole close encapsulating the above in a polite manner and stating if we have offended in some way then they should come and speak to us. Etc

I'm not massively articulate and as this has really got my goat am sure I would just be rude. So, please help me out with how I should write this.

Thank you

 

Hi man,

I cant spend too much time on this - but in short - it is best to just bullet point the main issues rather than go into lengthy paragraphs.

Keep the letter factual and cut out all 'conversational' text. Just hit the headlines.

 

Also - is the parking space on private land or the road?

 

I would confront who you think it is - I mean you must have a good idea ?

 

If you think you know who is it then why not just go round and speak to them face to face and see what you've done wrong. If you've got a good idea who it is then it probably is them...

 

I would NOT confront or speak to anyone at all .... if/when you get a letter - take it through the official channels

 

In short - keep your head to the ground - carry on as normal and wait and see what happens next

 

This whole thing has started though because nobody has spoken to you directly - seems silly to keep carrying on like this?

 

My ex had a way to deal with neighbours like these that continuously complained about everything to the council etc. She saved up loads and loads of those free try it now pay later offers for plates, dolls, lp's, trousers, stair lifts etc etc that you find in tv mags. Sent them all in the name of the offender. Hassle stopped. But I guess they spent ages having to send stuff back and sort it all out. Each knew it was the other and a kind of truce or stalemate happened. Mutual assured destruction.

I dont advocate this in any way. Me, I'd ignore and get on with my life. People like that get off on you worrying about it.

 

Here is the parking:



According to Google if it has public access and maintained by public money it is a public highway, this can be checked by contacting the local authority's. There are other bits and pieces but I don't think it is private.

The issue with the car is I have no other place to put it and have no way of re taxing it.

My reasoning for sending a group letter is such that I'm not 'singling' anybody out and politely asking to give it a rest now. I'm resisting the urge of brake fluid and vasoline. lol

 

just ignore it if you have done nothing wrong then you are safe, if its that bad they would have called the police and they wont do that cos they obviously wont be able to prove anything

just chill and let them stress over you

 

If 'they' had approached me at the start and explained I had pi**ed them off someway I could have resolved it but this is just childish and pathetic.

I'm happy to turn a blind eye and laugh at their idiot-icy but on the flip side of the coin if I leave it and let it continue where will it stop?

I like the try before you buy idea. lol

 

yeah just laugh it off, they're obviously small minded and have little else to fill their life whoever he/she or they are.

 

I would deffo NOT confront who it is!!!

Also, be very careful on 'knowing' who it is, unless you have firm 100% proof I'd be extremely wary of making accusations (no matter how friendly) - and of course what are they going to do other than deny it. Also, polling other people that agree it might be these particular neighbours - think about it, if it were me and you were happy to accuse someone else - what else am I going to do but agree with you?!?

Who knows your car is sorn'ed by the way? Would anyone know if they didn't take the cover off? Usually car stuff starts with someone thinking a space is 'theirs', also, in whose eye line is the non cleared pathway?

No need for paranoia - is anyone else getting grief where you are?

Showing they are getting to you empowers them, trying to reason with people who act like such pussies empowers them. Just crack on and keep your eyes open buddy.

 

Lets hope the DVLA don't get in contact otherwise I'm a little shafted on the car front

 

I'm no expert but is it allocated parking? If it is does that happen on a public highway?