My first time buyers bought this delightful Victorian whose sellers seemed wonderful as well. The sellers told us they hated to leave their home, most especially because they will miss their "wonderful" neighbors.
My buyers got to work in beautifying their home. And the husband started turning the basement into his workshop.
Two days ago, I had called them to find out how they're doing and to invite them to celebratory dinner that we had postponed.
SURPRISE!
My client told me of the shenanigans of the neighbor's wife who had called the police a few times since my clients moved. All her complaints were nuisance complaints, and even the police thought so, too.
NUISANCE COMPLAINTS
- They were awakened on Sunday by police knocking on their door. Seems that on Saturday, the neighbor didn't like the dust caused by my buyers' sanding the new plaster wall. But neighbor waits until Sunday morning to call the police.
- Neighbor calls the police a second time because she wants my clients to cut down a tree that is situated on the property line. It's been there since she moved --- so why pick this time to bully my clients into paying for cutting down the tree? She complained about the roots that were not even vixible.
- She didn't stop with that one tree...she calls the police a third time. she wanted trees between the two properties to be cut because of some cockamamie story that they're causing ant infestation. Pollent and other debris fall on her roof. So she demands that they be cut. Funny thing, had she left those trees alone, they may have filtered the dust and prevented them from wafting over to her house
- She is often heard screaming at her husband at night, complaining about the dust, the trees, the pollen, the neighbors. Had the trees stayed up, that sound could have been muffled.
DISCLOSURE ABOUT NEIGHBORS FROM HELL?
My clients are wondering how much of this problem the former sellers knew, and what could/should the sellers have legally disclosed?
When the sellers dropped by the house to pick up some mail that weren't forwarded, my buyers mentioned the nutty neighbor and how many times the neighbor has called the police. The sellers must have known about her, because they said to just ignore her.
They knew?
SELLER PROPERTY QUESTIONNAIRE
On the California Seller Property Questionnaire has a section on the Neighborood as they refer to noice, nuisance and other problems such as neighbors.
But this wasn't disclosed....probably because the neighbor behaved differently towards other people?
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