How to shut up a problem neighbour?
Discussion
I co own a house with my father, bought about 2 years ago that he and my mother were due to live in. They have since separated and now my father needs the money from his chunk of the house to sort divorce etc.
So we have the house for sale.
Never really got on well with the neighbour who is a 50 something retired nothing better to do type who since my parents moved in has been banging on and sometimes getting quite nasty about what he thinks is a border dispute.
Its literally a triangle of land (our side of the dividing fence which has been up about 20 years) total area abut 5sq m about all you could do with it is grow a row of beans FFS!
The land registry says its our land and in the house documents there is mention of a previous border dispute as concluded in 2000.
Now we are trying to sell the guy is being a real asshat and has put a sign up in his front garden near to our for sale sign stating there is a border dispute and every time the estate agent has brought someone round to view he has been outside shouting his mouth off about the bloody border dispute.
Is he allowed to do this? is there any way of legally making him take his sign down and shut up about it? Nobody wants to buy a nice house next to an annoying prick of a neighbour and the longer this drags on the longer the bloody divorce drags on.
So we have the house for sale.
Never really got on well with the neighbour who is a 50 something retired nothing better to do type who since my parents moved in has been banging on and sometimes getting quite nasty about what he thinks is a border dispute.
Its literally a triangle of land (our side of the dividing fence which has been up about 20 years) total area abut 5sq m about all you could do with it is grow a row of beans FFS!
The land registry says its our land and in the house documents there is mention of a previous border dispute as concluded in 2000.
Now we are trying to sell the guy is being a real asshat and has put a sign up in his front garden near to our for sale sign stating there is a border dispute and every time the estate agent has brought someone round to view he has been outside shouting his mouth off about the bloody border dispute.
Is he allowed to do this? is there any way of legally making him take his sign down and shut up about it? Nobody wants to buy a nice house next to an annoying prick of a neighbour and the longer this drags on the longer the bloody divorce drags on.
)paintman said:
What were the facts and resolution of the previous dispute?
I can only assume the resolution was how we think it is as shown on the land registry. We only have a note that there was a dispute (the neighbour confirmed this is what it was about) and that it concluded in 2000, 12 years before we bought the house. Where/ how would I go about getting the actual report?
Tell him that you will sell it to him for £1.
If he agrees, then he's admitting that he doesn't actually own it in which case withdraw the offer...
Seriously though, if there has been a dispute in the past that was determined (presumably against him) then can you not speak to your solicitor to seek an injunction or some kind of restraining order against him, to stop him making any further false claims.
If he agrees, then he's admitting that he doesn't actually own it in which case withdraw the offer...
Seriously though, if there has been a dispute in the past that was determined (presumably against him) then can you not speak to your solicitor to seek an injunction or some kind of restraining order against him, to stop him making any further false claims.
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