Distance to our rented property for new construction on the plot

  • Erstellt am 2021-04-27 15:44:48

moHouse

2021-04-28 14:35:40
  • #1
Yep. That's exactly how I see it too...
 

11ant

2021-04-28 14:38:22
  • #2
: I briefly considered yesterday whether I should recommend to the OP how your favorite neighbor simply responds to bickering with the fact that there is now a house on the neighboring property ;-)
 

Climbee

2021-04-28 15:27:57
  • #3
You can - but it doesn't help either, except that the new neighbor is annoyed ;-)
 

JuliaMünchen

2021-04-28 21:11:34
  • #4
This thread unfortunately hits a nerve with me right now, as we have a neighbor who is a tenant in the semi-detached house on the northern property boundary and has imagined that she also has rights and that we would have to inform her every day it gets loud (on a construction site!), since she works from home and could then demand a rent reduction from the property owner if her important seminars are canceled, which in turn could be claimed from us. When we made it clear to her that we would be happy to inform her when it starts, but beyond that have the right to build as is usual, she "out of interest" checked with the local regulatory office how asbestos disposal during demolition actually works, claiming a permit was required that was not yet available. You can imagine the satisfaction when we saw that our house would be one and a half floors higher and her part of the house plus terrace was now in the shade... the semi-detached house of the nice neighbor to the left still has sun and light... sometimes karma does strike. From my experience, I can tell you this: inform yourself precisely beforehand about what rights you really have; a rented property is not ownership and you can quickly cross the line here. It is annoying for everyone when the previously open neighborhood lot is built on, the family next door listens to music in the garden you don’t like, or the neighbor’s house is suddenly painted “p*** yellow”, but as long as you don’t own it, you have no claim that it remains as it was. Put yourself in your new neighbor’s shoes here as well; he will be proud as punch of his home, has probably gone into debt for 20 to 30 years for it, and will of course use the maximum building window available at current prices (he will have had it approved like anyone else). I totally understand that the dark apartment and now blocked view frustrate you, but realistically there are two ways: move or get to know the neighbors first and ideally benefit from new acquaintances. The house will not disappear, but if you call the building authority behind their backs during construction and they find out, that could turn both your relationship and the one between you and your landlord negative. Don’t want/can’t move AND start a fight with the neighbors? I wouldn’t do that :)
 

apokolok

2021-04-28 21:22:33
  • #5

Interesting perspective from another angle, but I would say it went a bit too far.
Of course, you’re right that a construction site makes as much noise as a construction site makes and some tenant from the neighborhood just happened to be unlucky. But it has nothing to do with rent or ownership, it doesn’t change the fact that you just have to put up with it.
However, it can really get on the nerves when there’s a construction site next door for a year while working from home, that can probably be understood too.
Whether you then have to mockingly enjoy the casting of shadows because the lady talks about some imagined rights...
I would still try to be friendly, understanding but also honest.
Yes, construction sites make noise, no, you don’t have any rights, but at least you have my sympathy and I’ll invite you to the topping-out ceremony.
 

JuliaMünchen

2021-04-28 21:51:08
  • #6
: Nope, not at all going overboard, super nice and understanding, already talked on the phone three times before the first groundbreaking and informed about everything that was within reason. But when there are rude demands, threats with lawyers, and calls to authorities behind our backs, accusations that a demolition would cause silicosis... no, that’s where my principle of “not being schadenfroh” definitely ends. Therefore, the warning to the OP to think about how they want to live with their neighbors; we even would have liked to invite our neighbors to the topping-out ceremony at the beginning, we had great conversations with her husband at the garden fence before the construction... now we’re happy that their house is on the north side without a garden and let the hedge grow tall. Sure, it’s annoying too, guess whose neighbor’s apartment is currently being renovated and who has neighbors with stomping children above them? :) But I know that both neighbors have the right to renovate and to have children, I can continue to greet them kindly, ask the construction workers how long they will be working today, and ask the family to be a bit mindful because the noise echoes quite a bit in the old building and we both have to work... but nothing more, since their apartments don’t belong to me (back to ownership) and so I can’t decide how they have to live within the legal framework. This “I was here first and don’t want to be disturbed anymore” attitude just rubs me the wrong way; the OP’s bungalow was also once built, and the neighbors on the other side probably weren’t happy about that either. If he were to build a house somewhere else now, his neighbors wouldn’t be happy either, maybe also in the shade... who knows :)
 

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