Today our housing association rep paid us a surprise visit. They're supposed to give 24 hours notice regardless of what they're popping round for. She came round because I'd emailed her about the spooky goings on in our house and she's visited our neighbors to see if they'd had anything strange happen. Didn't so much bug me until she started to have a moan at me about various things. Our neighbors have told her that our 2 dogs keep getting into their garden through a HUGE hole in the hedge. Problem is, we've blocked that hole and started to put the dogs on a twin lead in the garden. It stops them trying to escape because if a hole is too small for one of them, the other can't get through so they'll stay put etc. They haven't escaped for weeks. On the other side of our neighbors lives a collie. Over excitable and slightly vicious. It's knocked our neighbors son off his trike and has pinned his mum against her wall whilst snarling at her. They haven't complained about THAT dog because her boyfriend is all chummy with the bloke who owns that dog. Charming eh?
Plus, my OH forgot to put our bin out to be emptied last week so now it's full and we've no where to put the excess rubbish thats building up, so I've put all the little bags of rubbish into a large black bin liner to keep it all together. The rep said it's unsightly. I told her I knew but there was nothing we could do until Monday which is bin collection day. Then she went on to tell us that the pile of hedge trimmings on the front garden (cut today) needed to be moved within 48 hours. At this point I'd had enough and said "Well, it's going to have to wait. I've been told to rest up in case this baby wants to make an early entrance to the world, plus YOUR company has written into the tenancy agreement that they would do it. Why do we pay a service charge for gardening and receive NOTHING for it?" She asked why my OH couldn't do it and I've told her time and time again that he has a bad chest (pains which we've been looking in to) and that if it gets too much he's useless for the rest of the day. She left in a huff and I complained that she'd turned up unannounced. She'd tried to tell me to clean the house too at which point I went a bit ape on her. I told her I was told to rest and that this is how the house often is with a 1 year old. If I'm having a day off cleaning it'll be in this state until tomorrow morning.
Urgh, I dunno what to do, I'm supposed to be resting and yet she's pretty much telling me we need to get it cleaned or move out. We've got to put up chicken wire around the garden and take pictures to prove that we've done it in case our neighbors say it's our dogs in their garden again. That way we can say it's not and to tell them to get stuffed.
Plus, my OH forgot to put our bin out to be emptied last week so now it's full and we've no where to put the excess rubbish thats building up, so I've put all the little bags of rubbish into a large black bin liner to keep it all together. The rep said it's unsightly. I told her I knew but there was nothing we could do until Monday which is bin collection day. Then she went on to tell us that the pile of hedge trimmings on the front garden (cut today) needed to be moved within 48 hours. At this point I'd had enough and said "Well, it's going to have to wait. I've been told to rest up in case this baby wants to make an early entrance to the world, plus YOUR company has written into the tenancy agreement that they would do it. Why do we pay a service charge for gardening and receive NOTHING for it?" She asked why my OH couldn't do it and I've told her time and time again that he has a bad chest (pains which we've been looking in to) and that if it gets too much he's useless for the rest of the day. She left in a huff and I complained that she'd turned up unannounced. She'd tried to tell me to clean the house too at which point I went a bit ape on her. I told her I was told to rest and that this is how the house often is with a 1 year old. If I'm having a day off cleaning it'll be in this state until tomorrow morning.
Urgh, I dunno what to do, I'm supposed to be resting and yet she's pretty much telling me we need to get it cleaned or move out. We've got to put up chicken wire around the garden and take pictures to prove that we've done it in case our neighbors say it's our dogs in their garden again. That way we can say it's not and to tell them to get stuffed.
Ignore your neighbours (I have neighbours who are the same) and write a lovely letter to the housing association telling them exactly what you think 
) but I'm going to work myself up 
