Does anyone rent a flat in a converted house

[Annie Beau]

Bit of an odd topic really but I'm just wondering about the responsibility of a letting agent.
The house next to mine has been converted to four flats. At the back first floor the tenants are a couple of young lads. They're typical lads. .bit of loud music, can usually hear them crash through the door and lark about at 2 am on weekends etc. Doesn't really bother me.
But the letting agent has just rented the flat directly below them to a pensioner who has carers visit twice a day.
Theres already a hint of frustration from the lads - they've lived there for a year and there have been no complaints. But they're having to change how they live.
Doesthe agency have any responsibility /right to advise new tenants of other tenants in a small block?

 

[Annie Beau]

Oh and forgot to mention. .. tenant in one of the other flats is an absolute dick

 

[Jon]

We used to many many many MANY years ago live in a converted house that had been reconfigured to be two flats

The agency didn’t care who they put in below us as I assume the landlord just wanted it filled.

Renting is more about getting the money in for the landlord than it is about making sure the tenants are happy sadly as if you leave it’s no skin off their nose as they would just line the next tennant up in a couple of days!

 

[katykicker]

I don't believe they're under any obligation sadly.

 

[Annie Beau]

It's a ridiculous situation. The man who has moved in viewed the flat when the lads from upstairs were at work so it obviously seemed a nice quiet building. If that was my dad i would be having a chat with the agent about easing up on the six months minimum rental period. Apparently one of the other neighbours has mentioned to the agent that these boys are a bit rowdy so it's not like they don't know.

 

[David Says...]

It's reasonable to expect minimal anti-social behaviour regardless of the landlord. Indeed, the lads' tenancy agreement (assuming that they rent) may well have an anti-social behaviour break clause, and the local authority has the power to issue a noise abatement order if it's deemed unreasonable.

It sounds as though the lads realise their responsibilities. If they're not sticking to it then it's they who should face sanction, not the other tenants.

 

[Annie Beau]

Personally though. .and I live right next door. .I dont think theyre any trouble. Not overly noisy as far as I'm concerned. It's just a different lifestyle due to the age difference of them and their neighbour. I think the agent should bear that in mind tbh.

 

[Danilene]

I'm currently renting the upstairs flat in a house which has been converted in two flats. The downstairs tenant is really racist, she complained about me making too much noise as soon as I moved in... I'm sure her real complaint was the fact that I'm not British. The house next door has also been converted into 2 flats, I know one of the tenants, she is friendly, I've never met the others. Ironically, the tenant who lives below me can be really noisy when her boyfriend is in, usually Friday to Saturday night and Saturday to Sunday night, not only do they have loud sex, but they put the TV on really loud... until well after 2am. And whenever she makes a phone call, I can hear everything she says... and sometimes she discusses really private stuff.
Right now I'm researching tiny homes and camper vans (conversions of Volkswagen T6 and such into vans). The problem is... planning permission (the land)... and the address (I.e. I don't have any friends or family whose address I could use). I've been renting for over 25 years now, I don't think I'll ever get on the housing ladder (I'm not expecting any inheritance lol) and I'm fed up of paying a huge chunk of my salary to landlords... especially as we don't really have the same political opinions (and most of them are racist, sexist etc.)
Some of you might be interested in the below survey (available until the 5th), it can be filled in by both landlords and tenants:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consu...5bja23MaXO0lxJdhGZRiy7U5H5jU3PKMn-2r2OkG2FBHQ

 

[Danilene]

Bit of an odd topic really but I'm just wondering about the responsibility of a letting agent.
The house next to mine has been converted to four flats. At the back first floor the tenants are a couple of young lads. They're typical lads. .bit of loud music, can usually hear them crash through the door and lark about at 2 am on weekends etc. Doesn't really bother me.
But the letting agent has just rented the flat directly below them to a pensioner who has carers visit twice a day.
Theres already a hint of frustration from the lads - they've lived there for a year and there have been no complaints. But they're having to change how they live.
Doesthe agency have any responsibility /right to advise new tenants of other tenants in a small block?

It could be argued that it's mis-selling, however going to court would be expensive, stressful and time consuming... as if a housemove wasn't bad enough.
I worked in a real estate (sales) in Paris for a while, several decades ago. The notes would state things like 'Do not visit the flat after 6pm as the neighbours are noisy', 'Only visit the flat between 12 noon and 2pm, and on a sunny day, as it's very dark'. This latter flat would have been suitable for a vampire (no risk of the sunlight cremating you. We had not bothered taking any photographs of inside the flat, and we had no photos of the building either, because it was so dark... I managed to get a good picture of the building on a very bright Sunday, around noon. The real estate agent who had tried to take a picture previously was ever so jealous of me... We also had a house (a rarity in Paris) which was very dark, had electricity which dated from before WW2 (or so we joked) and plumbing which dated from before WW1. If someone was interested in visiting that house, the real estate agent would only book appointments in the evenings (so that he could claim the house would be much lighter in the daytime) and would drop in on his own just before the visit to switch the lights in every room, to make a good impression... One savvy buyer insisted on visiting the flat in the daytime, turning the lights off... and made a fuss... They also managed to sell a flat with a cellar... which belonged to another flat (the land registry had cocked up and neither the buyer's nor the vendor's solicitor did their jobs correctly) and to sell a flat with a trespassing problem (one of the neighbours would use a ladder to climb down to the balcony and sunbathe... Unbelievable, I know).
I didn't work there for long but it did give me a bad opinion of real estate agents... and as a tenant, my experience of letting agents hasn't been positive either. I've had letting agents ensure me I could get the internet in a flat when in fact it was not possible (conversion of a building of offices in 20-odd flats, none of which had the internet, or the phone - I can ensure you we tenants were livid, especially the ones who worked f/t and didn't have the time to go to the library or to cafes outside work hours).

 

[Annie Beau]

I'm currently renting the upstairs flat in a house which has been converted in two flats. The downstairs tenant is really racist, she complained about me making too much noise as soon as I moved in... I'm sure her real complaint was the fact that I'm not British. The house next door has also been converted into 2 flats, I know one of the tenants, she is friendly, I've never met the others. Ironically, the tenant who lives below me can be really noisy when her boyfriend is in, usually Friday to Saturday night and Saturday to Sunday night, not only do they have loud sex, but they put the TV on really loud... until well after 2am. And whenever she makes a phone call, I can hear everything she says... and sometimes she discusses really private stuff.
Right now I'm researching tiny homes and camper vans (conversions of Volkswagen T6 and such into vans). The problem is... planning permission (the land)... and the address (I.e. I don't have any friends or family whose address I could use). I've been renting for over 25 years now, I don't think I'll ever get on the housing ladder (I'm not expecting any inheritance lol) and I'm fed up of paying a huge chunk of my salary to landlords... especially as we don't really have the same political opinions (and most of them are racist, sexist etc.)
Some of you might be interested in the below survey (available until the 5th), it can be filled in by both landlords and tenants:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consu...5bja23MaXO0lxJdhGZRiy7U5H5jU3PKMn-2r2OkG2FBHQ

Thereare really some properties which just shouldn't be converted to flats. The elderly man who has moved in the ground floor flat not only has the boys upstairs to contend with but his bedroom is on the adjoining wall to my dining room. We often have family get togethers which I wouldn't class as loud. ..but I have no intention of asking everyone to keep their voice down after 9pm. The walls are thin enough to hear someone cough in there so a room with adults and kids will definitely be heard

 

[Jon]

YEARS ago we used to live in a back-2-back when I first came to leeds. When the house at the back where the living room backed onto our living room were having a party we could hear it all night long. Used to go round and give em a right earful when it was still carrying on at 1am!!

fun times!

 

[Annie Beau]

It could be worse, I suppose. This vegan lady took her neighbours to court because they were having barbeques in their garden

'Her list of demands included asking another neighbour to reduce their patio lighting, silence their pets and to replace plants in the common garden.

Vegan Australian takes neighbours to Supreme Court over barbecue smells

A vegan in Western Australia who took her neighbours to the supreme court in a failed bid to stop them from using their barbecue has said she is considering further legal action.

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