Prevent a neighbour selling to a landlord?

[Matheous-2]

Is it possible in Scotland to prevent a neighbour selling to a landlord?

[jackthehat]

Why would you want to ?

[Matheous-2]

I would not like an adjacent house to be divided into flats with people who have no regard for property & garden let alone unemployed 'party' animals etc. etc....

[milly143]

Um, I hope you are not bundling all tennants into that very small box. Some of us treat the places like they are our own homes.

[Davethedog]

Yes you can - You buy the property.

If someone told you you couldn't sell your house because they didn't like the buyers, what would you tel them to do?

[jackthehat]

You have no say in who buys the property.
You *will* have a say, via Planning Authority Consultation over any changes the new owner wishes to make over the use of the property.

[Matheous-2]

Yes I'm sure there are exceptions - but you always have to consider a worst case scenario...... And that one bad neighbour can bring down a whole area.

[craft1948]

At my old house a landlord bought next door, and put in 3 students..........good luck!

[milly143]

Well if the area is that great in the first place the kind of person who is going to be able to afford the rent is not likely to be someone who wil do their best to make other's lives miserable.

[Matheous-2]

It all doesn't bear thinking about......I should put it to rest until it 'happens'.
Thanks to all for your contributions!!

[tiggerblue10]

I don't think you can prevent anyone buying any property anywhere in the UK.

You could however sneak into the property and leave a smelly fish behind the radiator ;o)

[Matheous-2]

I like that tiggerblue10!!!

[jackthehat]

You could find out your LA's view on HMOs, etc. to help ease your mind.

Many LA's are now clamping down and refusing to allow the creation of any HMOs, which renders many types of property less desirable to slumlords.............

[ummmm]

I use to live opposite a guest house that the council used for the homeless etc...they kept us amused many a nights.

[tiggerblue10]

2 doors down from me is landlord owned property and in the last 5 years several families have lived in it. The untold problems my neighbours have had with them is unbelievable. One of them had a big dog who used to get into theirs and my garden frighteneing my cats and another family used to have parties that went on till 7/8 in the morning. One time a fight broke after a party at 6 in the morning and spilt out into the street. several neighbours called the police.

[jackthehat]

Actually, the house adjoined to me is an HMO.
The landlord is very good at sorting out any 'issues' should my direct representations to any of his tenants fail.

[paddywak]

When my nieces farther in law died he left a quite large house in trust to her three children It was converted into three flats and over the years they have had all sorts of people in them, families, foreign workers etc and they have only ever had trouble once and that was with a young local couple who on the face of it seemed the least likely to be a problem, on the other hand they've heard some horror stories from people who let property I suppose it's the luck of the draw

[saxy_jag]

As Milly says, tenants ain't all bad. We've rented our house for eight years and have a fantastic relationship with our neighbours. We share cars, go out together and have even gone on holiday together. It's a great neighbourhood and I feel privileged to live here.

On the contrary, there were neighbours at the last house I rented (we were seven years there), who owned their place and who were absolutely dire. They and their kids used to cause all sorts of problems. On one occasion he parked his landrover so that the buses couldn't get through - not deliberately, but he refused to move it until he'd walked his daughter to school. Meantime three buses had backed up waiting to get through. He only moved his car then because another neighbour had called the police as one of the buses was blocking their drive. As the kids grew up, they caused or started numerous fights and managed to alienate themselves from all of us - tenants and owners. I stopped my kids from 'playing' with them when their son threw a brick at my lad's head and put him in hospital! It was supposedly accidental but they never even asked how he was.

[Matheous-2]

I really think people who cannot live with consideration for their neighbours should be on the first commercial space shuttle and sent into orbit -preferably around Mercury where it's nice and warm!!

[compie]

hopefully they will convert it to kennels teach you a lesson for being a snob the way it is now you may lose your job and be the undesirable unemployed person your now insulting lol

[pink-kittens]

with the negative attitude you have, let me know where you live so I don't move in next door to you

How about thinking along the opposite side of the coin? Your new neighbours could be the nicest people you will ever meet and they may find you obtuse and ignorant