She has hoarded herself out of much of the bungalow, and lives and sleeps in the one room, the bedroom wall which adjoins mine. I have had mice in my home due to the state of her property. She sleeps all day and gets up at around 9pm at night rummaging around her hoard, moving things, things crashing and banging to the floor, and then she goes to bed around 9 - 12pm the next day. Her curtains are closed 24/7. She doesn't wash, and she doesn't eat very much she is thin, frail and dirty, and the stench of dogs feces, urine and rotting debris from her property is putrid. When her family does come round they take her out, they do not spend much time in there at all, and leave her dogs locked in the small dark hall for hours, sometimes days and they suffer separation anxiety, and so constantly howl.
I spoke to the family numerous times but they ignored me and ended up changing their telephone numbers. After 18 months I went to my Landlord, social services and the Alzheimer's society. This was when her 50 year old cannabis smoking son came to stay, which then added another problem, my home stinks of cannabis most of the time. The noise recorder went in and she was served a Community Protection Notice, which has already been breached, social services were trying to gain access but the son wasn't allowing her to open the door. Then 5 months later came the lockdown due to Covid-19. I am at the end of my tether, the son is going out most of the afternoon, and returning to the bungalow at night, then sits up all night with his mother while she makes noise all night, but doing nothing to stop her. My bed has been in my living room for 13 months now as it is the furthest room in the bungalow from the adjoining wall. However, the noise she makes is loud, climbing and waded over stuff and slamming the internal doors, it is a compulsive sound, a behaviour she cannot control, she also gets nasty, and has been abusive to me, and she has threatened to attack her son with a knife. I frequently hear her on her mobile phone in the garden accusing family members of stealing money or money going missing from her account, she also thinks people are stealing things from her home and garden. She has already been verbally abusive towards one of my neighbours (this was before I moved here), for which the police were called, as she believed her husband had moved in with her, even though her husband left 10 years ago due to the hoarding. I often see black smoke coming out of the kitchen window during the early hours of the morning, where she has forgotten what she is doing and has gone on to something else. Despite all this social services and my Landlord will not breach the lockdown to take action, even though her own family are not adhering to the lockdown, neither are they safeguarding my neighbour. As a result of lack of sleep, I am sinking into a depression, my asthma is affected by the constant stench of cannabis and I'm at the end of my tether.
Tell your landlord you want free rent until you find a new place or you are reporting him and her to the Department of Health for code violations. I take it you are in England since you reference a "Community Protection Notice". So I don't know if you have a Dept of Health, but whatever is the equivalent, you can contact them. As well as the ASPCA for the unsafe treatment of animals. Your landlord owes you SOMETHING here.........either a safe and peaceful environment in which to live or free rent while you find other accommodations. Just my opinion.
Personally, I'd move if it were me because there is just TOO MUCH going on here for you to be able to fix. You've tried, to no avail, to get help and you're not. So move on, my friend. That's the best you can do for yourself. Good luck!
Ask all these departments if they have any suggestions on who else you can call to help this person...and in turn it is going to help you. She will most lilely be removed from there and placed in a facility that can help her and take care of her because it sounds like she isn't capable of doing that for herself any more. And hording IS putting you in danger...can cause Fire and Rodents.
So don't feel bad reporting her to authorities that can Help her. You can't help her by yourself and hiring a lawyer isn't going to do anything but rack up a bill for you. A lawyer isn't going to be able to do anything...this problem needs Medical attention.
Move.
You have tried for months to have this situation resolved and if anything it has gotten worse.
If you are in a lease it should be easy to break the lease.
Instead of calling authorities to complain, call to report a life threatening situation with an elderly neighbor. I think you will get much further in your search for help for the poor woman, than if you make yourself out to be the victim.
My humble opinion only.
Best of luck to you both.
You could call the police when you hear banging that late. Noise that late is a disturbance and the police can deal with it.
You could also call the village or county and talk to someone in the Health Department or Code Enforcement both have regulations on hoarding and if it is bringing in rodent infestations that is a health concern for you as well as your neighbor.
Oh, next time you see smoke...call the Fire Department. Because the next time it might be a fire they have to deal with. And do this every time you see smoke.
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