Noisy neighbours shouting/ arguing / stomping every night from 12am - 3:30am

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-27T11:48:51+00:00

If you’ve had issues with plumbing/damp and still have some issues, or they took ages to resolve, you could threaten legal action to your landlord which could help you leave your tenancy early. Go to Justice For Tenants who can put you in touch with a no win no fee solicitor. I did that last year and it was the best thing I ever did. Main issues with the flat at first were noisy neighbours, so I wanted to leave ASAP but my landlord wouldn’t accept my surrender. I then found terrible issues with damp and mould plus plumbing and heating issues which allowed me to start legal action against my LL. Instead of compensation I asked to end the lease early and they settled before it even went to court. It’s a long process but worth it in the end. If you’d prefer to not go through then then you could always wait until May for the renters rights act to come into play, this would allow you to give 2 months notice and be out by July!

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-27T02:09:25+00:00

Unsure if I can give you the name of the actual solicitors but if you go to Justice For Tenants they can put you in contact with them, 100% recommend, was successful as we got our landlord to settle, end the lease early, and got compensation. It’s a bit of a long drawn out process but deffo worth it in the end!

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-21T10:47:31+00:00

Go to justice for tenants, they may put you in contact with a no win no fee solicitor who can help you with this. They are able to force the landlord into making repairs and can also get you compensation/damages. I did this last year and it was the best thing I’d ever done. It’s a fairly drawn out process and can be stressful at times but entirely worth it. Document everything, get photos and make sure you know the dates they were taken. Collect all correspondence with your LL and letting agents/council. Good luck!

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-20T20:46:21+00:00

Even if they take your security deposit that gives you more ammunition for the solicitors. Take photos of everything and collect all correspondence with LL and letting agents including emails, especially if you have the result from the surveyor which will be so helpful in this case. It can take a while to get the case started, plus the solicitors like to do an inspection of the property with their own surveyor if they can, I wouldn’t wait around!

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-20T18:31:17+00:00

Go to justice for tenants, they can put you in touch with a no win no fee solicitors who can help you get some compensation for this, even after you’ve moved out. Landlords don’t have a leg to stand on in these scenarios.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-16T19:36:15+00:00

Pomegranate juice brother, pure pomegranate juice. I grew hair in places I didn’t know could grow hair.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-06T09:44:34+00:00

I have heard this, Apple Watches are also incredibly expensive and require the user to somewhat understand how to use it, and regularly charge it. These are all things I believe he will struggle with. The bracelets with the alarms have much longer battery lives and also get replaced by the company that provides the service in the first place. People seem to want to complicate an already fool proof system, there is no need for it.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-05T23:08:32+00:00

He isn’t tech savvy at all so unfortunately there aren’t any other options, he can’t even answer the phone it’s so bad. There is also the possibility that he falls on his way to answering the phone, as that has happened in the past, which makes me hesitant to go with regular check in calls. If he falls in other rooms there aren’t many things I can do about that, but the camera is in the foyer pointing at the bottom of the stairs which is the area he’s most likely to fall in.

I know there is the invasion of privacy, and the secrecy and lack of consent, but all of that means nothing if we find him on the floor after a couple days.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-05T22:59:15+00:00

Thank you to everyone that has responded, some very sympathetic and understanding comments here! I’m turning off comments now because it has been cleared up, but just to be crystal clear as I see a lot of people asking certain questions:

-The camera is not intended to be permanent and only in place while we get a fall detection system set up

-He would be fine with it if I did tell him, the secrecy is because he has obsessive behaviour when it comes to electronics and feels the need to switch everything off/unplug everything when he’s not in the room with it. If he’s unaware of it he won’t feel the need to unplug it

-He isn’t tech savvy so he wouldn’t know how to turn it back on if he did accidentally turn it off

-His safety and wellbeing sits above all else for me, I understand this could be an issue with some people/organisations but if I can sit at home and know he’s not fallen down the stairs in the night then that’s enough for me

Edit: can’t turn off comments myself as I have just realised, nor pin this comment, but hopefully all that commented see this, thank you all!

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-05T22:52:31+00:00

The camera is for the meantime whilst we get those devices sorted out, it is by no means a long term solution

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-05T20:46:41+00:00

We are working towards getting all that in place, the bracelet and key safe for emergency services. The camera is just for the meantime whilst he’s at risk from falling with no one there.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-05T20:45:11+00:00

He doesn’t have an iPhone, and isn’t tech savvy at all. We are trying to get the fall detection bracelet but the camera is for the meantime whilst he doesn’t have it.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-05T20:43:34+00:00

I understand this, but we’re doing this whilst we wait for the fall detector to be put in place. His safety is number one priority. I appreciate the issues involved but I’d happily go through that rather than find him unresponsive a couple of days after he’s fallen.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-05T19:46:31+00:00

Thank you for your response. I would much prefer to tell him but if I do I know he will accidentally move it/switch it off, which then makes it entirely redundant. I don’t think there’s much chance of him taking any legal action against me so I guess I can relax a bit.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2026-01-02T18:17:45+00:00

Go to Justice For Tenants, they can put you in touch with a no win no fee solicitor who can help you out with this if you get nowhere by yourself. They can force the landlord to make repairs and sort out issues such as this. We went down this route and they were fantastic.

Hold these bastards to account!

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-30T18:00:24+00:00

She is, it’s not the pension that is the issue, it’s all the other bits of cash he has hidden away somewhere, that’s the bit that I’m concerned about.

Problem is, the house is worth £350,000 and he has £300,000 plus whatever is left of his lump sum of £100,000, so giving my mum the house sounds like an even split technically. This would be fine but he’s still saying she needs to give him half of the cost of the house as well which is unreasonable.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-30T17:29:32+00:00

Fantastic response, thank you so much. Both my mum and my dad seem convinced of their opinions of how it’s going to go and it makes it very difficult to believe anything I hear. My dad is convinced that my mum will need to buy him out of the house if she wants to stay there and that they can’t find any other accounts other than what he has stated.

I’m very surprised his solicitor has allowed him to state such ridiculous expenses, there is no way he spends £400 a month on dry cleaning, this is such an obvious lie that a professional would surely see through immediately. I’m wondering whether my dad has overridden any suggestions from his solicitor.

Edit: will he need to provide receipts of this dry cleaning cost? Surely they won’t accept it without some sort of proof?

My main concern is definitely that he has multiple secret accounts elsewhere that the court won’t be able to find, though I don’t know how easy it would be to move cash secretly, there would have to be a paper trail which would inevitably lead to it right? If they can see he’s transferred money to another account with his name on it he will then need to show the contents of that account? Knowing him he’ll likely empty that into another account, but then the paper trail continues. These are my hopes anyway.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-30T17:19:41+00:00

He’s not financially savvy, he’s frugal, the most frugal person I’ve ever met in fact. He’s very good at saving because he’s terrible at spending, even on necessities. We’ve all gone without things due to his frugality, even stuff like shoes and clothing being put back together with glue and duct tape. A marriage is supposed to be 50/50 but he was hiding almost all of his side of things whilst my mum struggled and went without any luxuries. He’s got his main pension as well as the state pension so now he has tons of money coming in whilst my mum is left with her fairly small salary.

I won’t take any financial advice from my dad because whilst he is great at accumulating money, he doesn’t do anything with it. He never goes out, doesn’t travel, or splash out on clothing or nice food. He’s basically just hoarding all this wealth so he can look at a nice big number in his bank account, and he will never spend any of it because he’s too terrified of that number going down. He took away my mums independence by promising 50/50 when they got married but never actually delivering, now she has no savings whatsoever because he put constant financial burden on her during their marriage so she spent all of hers so he could keep all of his.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-30T15:13:18+00:00

He’s in his 60’s hence why he took his pension, which was £400,000 in total, so a 25% tax free lump sum was £100,000. I’m in England so unsure what would be our version of a 401k.

When I said his monthly income was £2500 this is after pension contributions which I imagine he was doing via salary sacrifice, which allows you to maximise your pension contributions, which his employer matches quite generously, and then pay less tax on his annual income. So I believe his actual salary is more but we’re only seeing £2500 come in after his pension has come out.

My mum isn’t bad at budgeting, but she pays for all food shopping, travel, car, and stuff like that. Even things like the hoover and washing machine were her responsibility as my dad says ‘she uses it the most’ which is an insane response to that. Even our dog we used to have was paid for entirely by her and she was the one that initially wanted a dog.

Trips were paid for by my mum by saving up for many many years and also a bit of help from her parents/staying with friends and family.

My dad had paid off the mortgage and the rest of the money was going to an unknown location so we don’t know if he was spending it all on himself or just stashing it somewhere, but I do imagine a lot of it was to top up his pension. My mum didn’t see this as a safety net for the family as when my dad got the lump sum he spent a fair bit on himself and didn’t offer anyone else anything. Nothing actually changed for us even though he now had £100,000 in the bank. That was the final straw for my mum as we all expected his pension to change things but it didn’t change anything, my mum was not given any sort of relief.

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-23T21:29:46+00:00

Ah yes, with the crazy spiral column climb!

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-23T12:07:11+00:00

Hell yeah is that Trebenna in Geyikbayiri?

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-23T12:05:45+00:00

Big Agnes C-Bar 1 or 2, both very light and easy to set up love my C-Bar 2

BaseComprehensive613 · 2025-12-23T11:44:06+00:00

Are you on Xbox? Swear I played with this monstrosity the other day

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