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@sacredhart
We have a situation brewing at home. Me and the missus bought our first flat 2 years ago. Dude upstairs had two broken legs/ was housebound from what we now think was a suicide attempt.
We have since found out from the freeholder his sister that he has mental health issues. He is pretty nocturnal, seems to take a lot of drugs as a dealer comes round regularly and seems to hook up with random dudes most weekends. Peoples lifestyle choices are there own but the effect of this is there are lots of strangers coming and going in our communal hallway mostly at antisocial hours. Also he basically never ever goes out.
For a while a really creepy guy moved in, they ended up having a fight which resulted in us Calling the police then another fight which spilled out into the street. Another neighbour called the police and the creepy dude never came back.
The front door was left open all night a couple of times so Mrs sacred mentioned it to upstairs neighbour in passing, his response was that it was ok as there were loads of invisible cctv cameras in the hall. He then went on to say that the cameras were no use if someone broke in and stabbed us. This was apparently said in a light hearted way but still slightly unsettling.
Next thing is we left a note asking for access to his flat this weekend to remove a redundant water pipe that runs between the flats. When I left for work this morn he had left a response saying that was no problem but when mrsSacred left an hour later this has been replaced with a note saying we would not be allowed access. It then went on to allege several untrue and odd things the last one being that we had accused him of being a 'paedo rapist' and signing off with 'merry Christmas'.
I called the freeholder this morning and told them all the above ( we have previously tried to stay out of things ). They were apologetic and offered to try and contact his key worker but also said there probably wasn't much they could do and that he isn't any threat to anyone but himself.
I feel something needs to happen now, we are planning to have a baby and the late night dealer/ grindr calls plus the increasingly unhinged behaviours don't seem conducive to a happy family home. I don't really want to move as apart from this it's ideal. I also don't want to take responsibility for this person or make them more negative towards us by being the one who involves the authorities.
Writing an email to the sister/ freeholder (who never ever comes round it seems) to try and gee them into doing something but I get the impression the family is happy to have this guy living far away from them so they don't have to deal with him. I feel sorry for this dude and his situation and he is obviously venerable/ requires some help but it's starting to affect our lives now.