Neighbour's House Up For Sale

[lankeela]

Is it compulsory for them to notify buyers of any negative aspects - I have dogs and although they are not left out to bark for any length of time they will bark if they hear anyone outside they don't know and although the neighbour moving has never complained I dread getting new ones who might kick off as a previous one did who lived there.

[jackthehat]

I think sellers are only legally obliged to give notice of 'neighbour disputes', i.e. things which have been reported to the Council and/or Police. Neighbourly niggles, or indeed, potential neighbourly niggles do not count.

[teacake44]

It appears you know your dogs are a problem.

[lankeela]

Not as far as the council are concerned, as the previous neighbour found out when he reported them for barking and they fitted monitoring equipment. Dogs bark - its an accepted fact. Its only when they are left to bark nonstop for hours on end that the council will take further action. I live alone and wish to be alerted if there is someone around that they don't know. I am also pretty confident that my house won't be broken into while they are around.

[Peter Pedant]

your question is

my neighbours - do they have to tell their successors my dogs bark ?

very third person-y - - no they dont

Your new neighbour who ever they be: when they move in and complain about yr dogs and say we were never told they barked - - - do they have to be telling the troof ? No and I have found my neighbours frequently dont. and some fall into the category of damned liars

[Peter Pedant]

// It appears you know your dogs are a problem.//

my wife's a problem - but the neighbours dont have to warn people ! - - ter daaaah !
no she isnt really - only joking

[sunny-dave]

Caveat Emptor - I'd never buy anywhere without a series of (unannounced) visits to the general area at various times of day/night.

If the noise of barking dogs from a neighbouring property/garden accompanied every visit then I'd think very hard about whether it would be a deal-breaker.

[Peter Pedant]

oh hahahaha I must tell you
when a tenant died er in situ, his bereaved and heart broken daughter he hadnt seen for a year or so - Trace the Terror asked
"why you giving us a monf free to clear the house? me da; said there was a deposit!" and she kinda wanted it pronto, all, in cash. no please it was hers after all

and after a lot of document searching - I found the ten year old original lease - -no deposit. "I didnt say there was a deposit. He signed a document saying there was nt a deposit. I dont know who told you there was on when there wasnt"

no one of course, she was making it up on a punt.

and Trace continued to give me hell over god knows what

[iluvmargie]

You say the moving neighbour has never complained, so I don't see any reason why he/she would say anything anyway as there hasn't been a problem as far as they are concerned. You're right, dogs do bark, but if it's only every now and again and not constantly, I don't see a problem personally.

[teacake44]

You said it not me, "the previous neighbours kicked off", so there must be a problem or you would not be concerned about any new ones moving in. The present ones may just be very laid back, deaf, or to afraid to say anything.

[sherrardk]

Or maybe the previous neighbours were uptight, intolerant dog haters?

[Samuraisan]

Or that's why they are selling up.

[teacake44]

You don't need to be a hater of dogs, for their barking to get you down, been said many times but .... not the dog, its the owner.

[bednobs]

^^^^^so lankeela, just make sure YOU don't bark and it'll be all ok!

[jourdain2]

My dog will bark when the postman arrives, or when we have a visitor, but only briefly. He also barks when let out in the garden for a last wee at night - again only for about 20 seconds. He never barks early in the morning when the milkman arrives. The one and only time he barked at about 2.00 a.m., I went downstairs and quietened him. The next night several thefts took place in the village, so he must have heard someone 'casing the joint'. If he does it again, we are instructed to let the police know.

Our neighbours are fine about it, in fact our last neighbour in France said that she felt safer knowing he was checking the garden at about 10.30 p.m.. If yours are doing much the same, Lankeela, then nobody could possibly call them a nuisance.

[fiction-factory]

It might be worth making your dog visible/audible to potential buyers, so those who dislike dogs and could cause you problems, may decide not to buy

[THECORBYLOON]

TEACAKE, you wrote, 'You said it not me, "the previous neighbours kicked off", so there must be a problem'.

LANKEELA didn't write that but, did she?

[Spicerack]

Did.

[ummmm]

The neighbour didn't complain but did report it to the council??

[Mamyalynne]

Our dogs almost always barked briefly if anyone we didn't know came near the house (here we call it 'tenting') - anyone up to no good goes away.

Conversely a neighbour here had a dog that was a rotten tenter and let burglars in and virtually empty the house with ne'er a sound.

If I hear a neighbours dog bark then I go and look, usually it's a delivery or the window cleaners but anything shady and they scarper.

[Spicerack]

Some dogs never shut up.