Prevent a neighbour selling to a landlord?

[Matheous-2]

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

[Matheous-2]

As it is at the moment our neighbours are really the best you could have! In the past we experienced the worst in another location so why would I want to return to that again?
Even if I was unfortunate enough to be 'down & out' I wouldn't make my neighbours life a hell just because they live next to me.

[keithlbw]

Just after we married we rented a terraced house. Within one week we had major problems with our next door neighbour..Constant very loud music all day and late into the night 2am was not unusual....After three or four days I tried to have a sensible word with them about the noise....I was told in no uncertain terms that it was their house they had bought it and they would make as much noise as they wanted to in it...
Battle lines were drawn....
Don't assume that people who are going to rent are a possible problem...the answer is quite often closer to home..( I am not trying to say you are like this Matheous -2) but there are two sides to every coin...
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ps......My present and last home were both detached bungalows in very small communities....lol...

[Matheous-2]

I would love pink kittens living next door 'cos I do like cats....

[Matheous-2]

Thanks keithlbw - I'm just being paranoid for nothing.....

[slinky.kate]

i sold my property to a person who lets out flats/rooms,but i didnt know at the time,but i got a fair price and thats what i was after

[Dris]

Mathepus-2 -where in Scotland just as a matter of interest? We have a flat in Perth (for family) and I feel your concern.Lovely city/beautiful flat /lovely old fashioned close-just that the security door got kicked off its hinges as the guy upstairs was dealing and wasnt answering the buzzer.Flat was let out by the Council (they have now become Landlords of private lets) which was lucky to a degree as they dealt with it. Problem is our flat has devalued radically by 20k-we cant sell it and its not all down to the recession.I feel if someone buys then they have to work hard to put the deposit down and then have respect but if, as in our scenario, the others flats bar one are private lets and the rents getting paid by the housing benefit then they dont give a toss.Our close has almost become a ghetto along with the majority of city centre flats.
I dont tar all tenants with the same brush but i'm just giving our overview which means a lot of money lost :(

[karenmac60]

I rent, but the flat above me is bought. I pride myself on being a decent neighbour - never have loud music playing, always made sure my daughter was quiet in the close etc. The previous owner of upstairs, however, used to have parties from Friday night till Monday morning There were fights in the close, broken bottles and windows, bags of rubbish left lying and if I dared to complain the music was just turned up. I went up to have it out with her on a particularly bad night and was confronted with her and her mother shouting about how she paid to live there and she could do what she liked and I could just effing well like it. My daughter would be in tears every night cos she couldn't sleep for the racket and would beg me to make it stop. Ownership does not guarantee respect and consideration and neither does renting guarantee trouble.

[Matheous-2]

Dris - This is my whole point- I really feel for you....I have already experienced the worst and worry it could happen again to us. There must be hundreds of thousands of good residents suffering because of selfish people.

[Dris]

Thanks Matteous-2 (unfortunate typo first time around lol).We bought the flat for my daughter just under 3yrs ago (its effectively hers) and the close was lovely,neighbours were great then transpired we just got in before the big clamp down on mortgages.So apart from the 20k she ploughed into and the subsequent immediate rise in value -its almost 30k she's lost.Then thats when the junkies and alkies for want of better words started getting punted in .She's had the flat flooded and it was 6mths before the damage was rectified -the Environmental Health had to get involved as the landlord wouldnt respond and the tenant was blind drunk and turned night into day.She's had needles in the stairwell -she came in from work one day and a jaikies was peeing in the close -she chased him.The one who turned night into day had Abba blaring all night with his jaikie mates coming and going all night and she had to work.She did get the 'nuisance' police involved eventually and they tried to help but the guy wouldnt answer the door cos he couldnt hear them as the music was so loud !!.Its a joke.I could honeslty write a book -she's now renting as i had to get her out for her own safety and we're left with a flat we cant sell.Thats how quickly it can spiral out of control and i'm not trying to frighten anyone.My husband is a tenant as he works away from home and my daughter now is so i'm not anti tenants -I see both side of the coin now.

[keithlbw]

Matheous -2......I think the general consensus is just wait and see. It may not be anywhere near as bad as you think.Its not worth losing sleep over at the moment .
Oh and by the way...I said in my last post that battle lines where drawn......I started doing loads of D.I.Y. (mainly on pieces of waste wood etc.) starting at about 8am each day with power tools (.I knew they would be sleeping then).
They soon learned to turn the volume down.

[Matheous-2]

keithlbw - Good suggestion! Although I hope it won't happen-but i will remember to boost DIY activity EARLY in the morning! Though I would have to consider other 'good' neighbours.....