It’s easy to say “Love thy neighbour” – but what can you do when they make it bloody impossible?
Every once in a while I get emails from people who have bought a house with a neighbour from hell and are now stuck, annoyed and frustrated with their ridiculous behaviour.
Can I be completely honest with you here? I have a couple of neighbours that I am not too crazy about myself. But until recently it never occurred to me I could actually DO SOMETHING about it. I just assumed that not much can be done about that barking dog, or the screaming kids or the ear-splitting rock concerts my neighbour is a huge fan of. Oh, and did I mention that he decided to become a famous guitarist lately? Which seems to come with mandatory deafening midnight practice sessions.
Since I’ve done quite a bit of research on this topic it’s only fair that I document it somewhere – and what would be better than my blog “Home I Own”? Any house comes with neighbours and anyone who is living anywhere at all could be sharing the same set of problems.
Without going into legal rights issues (which I can’t, because I am not a lawyer), this series will give you some ideas for potential solutions – or at least things to try to solve a dispute, before getting an actual lawyer and taking the ‘bastards’ to the court. Lawyers are expensive, court cases take years to settle and nobody needs the constant stress, so it makes sense to try and reach an agreement instead.
That’s all you get today folks – stay tuned for the articles on how to handle disputes with your neighbours over trees, fences, noise, cats and dogs and different forms of nuisance behaviour.
