OK, so me and my hubby have been renting off a private landlord since October 2007. Originally it was a flat and then as he was moving house he offered us an opportunity to rent his house in March 2009. We have never had problems before and always pay our rent on time. In fact we get on with him really well and he lives just behind us.

However, when we moved in we had no problems untill we started getting letters through our door from our next door neighbour about being woken up at 2:30 and 5:30am. We tried to resolve it with the neighbour, we speak to her daily and even share mowing the front lawn.

Recently, she threatened us with ‘im going to the owners" and went to our landlords house in tears saying she cant sleep and we keep waking here up. We have a 2 year old daughter, who untill may 2010 was not in a routiene. And she is not quiet when she wakes up for a bottle but we sneak around and make sure shes back to bed as quickly as possible.

However, as the neighbour is best friends with the owners we got issued a section 21 saying we had to leave the property by July 7th without any explaination. We was in tears as we love it here and our landlord said it was because he couldnt afford the mortgage and needed to sell.

After ringing the council it turned out that it was because of anti social behaviour and we had a meeting with the team and landlord and his wife to resolve the situation so we could stay. They found that our house is a new build and vibarations run underneath the floor with a slight shut of the upstairs bedroom door. They concluded that we would stay and that our landlord had 2 fit draft excluders around the door and sort out the lock as the doors were not fitted properly.

Anyway since then we had minimised all noise and our daughter was in bed at 7pm – 8am. Untill this morning a nasty letter was on our doorstep saying that she gets woke up at 5am and shes going to lose her job and has got in touch with the owners again. Thats as our Daughter wakes up for a new bottle and then goes back to sleep as she is currently teething.

We are at the end of our tether. We feel intimidated and like anti social criminals when all we are trying to do is make a better life for our daughter. What can we do and where do we stand? Its so stressful and we just dont need this. Its like our neighbour doesnt understand we hear her and dont complain its a new build its going to happen we cant help we have a 2 year old daughter.

Its like having a spy next door that attention seeks to our landlord to get rid of us

Thanks

Seller is going through a divorce, other half is bankrupt, it’s been 4 months since we’ve been waiting for them to sign the contract as everything from my end has gone through very quickly with no problems.

My solicitor is basically advising me that "these things take time and it’s a complex situation" – all we are waiting for is for the signing to happen but it’s been delayed by the actual end-seller!? To top things off I went past the property today and saw a "For Let" sign next to the "Sold" sign outside the house from a second estate agent.

Any help and advice is much appreciated.
Sorry, to make things worse I’ve incurred nearly £1500 in fees so far of my own money and I really can’t see a light at the end of the tunnel.

Can I reclaim this money from them and is it illegal to advertise a property for let after it has been listed as sold but the contracts not exchanged.