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Should we accept loss for new start

  • 22-03-2016 11:59pm
    #1
    bimble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭


    Hi folks.

    Im 45 this year, spent the last 18 months getting through depression, its been hard on my partner too we have two kids 21 and 14

    We bought an old town house in a small village 12 years ago, to fix up for ourselves, over time, which started well up until the downturn and lost my job, which ment there was no spare cash to put into the house so still needs work doing to it. But it is livable

    The main problems are that the village has got so much busier over the last 10 year. We live on the main st and the traffic can be very heavy and noisy at times.

    But the real elephant in the room is a commercial premises next door which has got so much busier the is a constant flow of cars vans and trucks pulling up, engines left running for anything up to an hour. Combine this with a total and utter idiot running the place, who has absolutely no thought for the neighbours .

    Everyone moans about it but when I suggested we take him to court, they all quickly shut up and backed off, with the exception of one 80 year old neighbour. Legal advice I,d sort surgested getting all the neighbours to build a stronger case

    So now I.m of the opinion to just sell up, we will lose money, and may never get another mortgage again, but we have not been happy here for 7 or 8 years and it led to me getting depression which I never want to go through again

    By the way my partner wishes to stay put.


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  • #2
    G-Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭G-Man


    Good on you getting through it all. Did getting through it give you tools to handle it and overcome it. Are there ones which you can use now to keep you in a good place.. I have now answers - just some thoughts

    I know from my own experience where I lived, i had a similar anxious desire to get away from a house with problems - noise, space, traffic. In the end I made modifications - extra sound proofing double glazing, got no parking outside the house enforced so as to give me more 'breathing' space, improved the garden a lot so it became welcome area.

    Some of those cost money, some hard work and some just effort at annoying the council.. However its still not right, but now having done the work, I know any place I go will have some other compromises too and I and my family appreciate the changes we have made. Potential buyers of your home will notice the traffic and noise too, so that might leave a slow sale in a rural town.

    You might find more support in your residential neigbours to get your commercial neighbour to be more considerate... Traffic calming might reduce speed of traffic and hence noise. Get on to the council about enforcing no parking /idling...

    convince your neighbours its for everyones benefit... I did some local campaigning myself and if you persist, and indeed show some they are not alone they will join up.. However very FEW WANT TO SPEND MONEY, hence they shy away from courts - it could be expensive. Campaign with the council.. Help people to be proud of their street and make it pleasant for all. Remember look out for yourself, and you might reap bigger rewards.


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