Natalya Kaptsova

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Housemates are very rarely good friends. As a rule, everything is exactly the opposite. Our neighbors wear us out with endless repairs and loud music, don’t let our children sleep, smoke in the hallways, flood the stretched ceilings “yesterday”, park under our windows, etc. Persuasion, requests and demands don’t work, and all we can do is helplessly wave our fists because curtains in your apartment.

Does your neighbor constantly keep watch at the door peephole?

Is he on duty both day and night? And then he discusses with his girlfriends on the bench - who did you come with, what time and to what extent in an uncultured state?

Make a dummy CCTV camera or buy this prop equipment and hang it on the staircase so that the entire neighbor’s door falls into the “field of view” of the camera. Now you will “look” at each other. Don’t forget to stick a poster - “We are watching you”, tear up your granny’s “templates”.

You can also seal her door peephole. with ordinary tape or do something even more cruel - fill the eye with silicate glue (it is impossible to wash and tear it off).

Are your neighbors annoying you so much that you want to walk your dog outside their door?

Post an advertisement (or post it on the Internet) about renting an apartment. For example, “We need tenants for six months to look after the apartment. Pay only for services." Let them be tortured with calls. Of course, you won’t be able to achieve anything, but a little dirty trick will make your soul a little warmer.

Be sure to indicate that you should call between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. on weekends or 11 a.m. and 12 a.m. on weekdays.

If there is no phone number, write their address. It's even more interesting this way.

A young couple has moved into the next apartment and has already become quite boring for you with their nightly “sabantui” with guests and a sea of ​​alcohol?

Are they not responding to your requests to “let people sleep” and are even rude?

Buy a GSM signal jammer. Mobile phones in their apartment will stop working. However, there is one drawback - they won’t work in your apartment either.

Neighbors getting drunk, knocking over cabinets, dancing to Verka-Serduchka at 3 a.m.?

And they bang their forks on the plates so actively that your chandelier sways? And the doors don't open? And they don’t respond to knocking?

Unscrew the plugs (if the shield is on the stairs), let them sit in the dark.

If they continue, repeat the action.

A young neighbor cannot imagine his life without Radio Chanson?

To the fullest every evening? Just when, after a delicious dinner, wrapped in soft pajamas, you are going to lie down and read a newspaper?

Buy your child a synthesizer. Or a guitar. In general, it doesn’t matter what instrument, it is important that it is loud, and that morning training is regular.

If impudent people have settled right under you, and fighting them does not give anything...

... then, in addition to musical influence, constant transportation of sofas around the room, dancing until you drop and turning on construction equipment for 2-3 hours, can be used as revenge and flood . Drench your neighbors thoroughly and before they come running to you screaming, wipe the floor dry.

Don’t forget to make big eyes (“Oh, we have such terrible ceilings here! They haven’t changed them since the days of Tsar Gorokh!”) and offer to go up to the neighbors above or call the plumbers.

The neighbor has become completely impudent; he parks right at the exit from the yard or on the playground?

And in the evenings, right under your window, turns on the radio at full power and drinks beer with friends?

All your timid requests rest on this impudent man’s promise to break your legs if you ask for anything again.

How to punish a boor?

If the grannies and kids in your yard like to feed the pigeons, then just throw a handful of millet or bread crumbs on the hood and roof of your neighbor's car . He won't put it here again.

Have your dacha neighbors tired you with their drunken companies, barbecues and musical girls?

Is the flow of guests endless and doesn’t want to stop?

Under the cover of darkness, quietly and silently, like a ninja, sneak into the “triss booth” (outdoor toilet) of your hospitable neighbor and throw a packet of yeast into the hole . In the morning, the neighbor and his guests will be treated not only to an incomparable aroma, but also to significantly increased contents of the toilet under the influence of yeast.

In the near future, no one will disturb the silence at your dacha.

The neighbors have been making a fuss of the whole house for a month with their renovations?

They tore down, rebuilt and chiseled walls, laid floors, without turning off hammer drills, drills and jigsaws for hours on end?

Give them a housewarming gift - Have a karaoke night with friends !

And if angry new residents burst into your door at 4-5 in the morning with a demand to “shut up,” you can laugh in their face and tell them that this is your gratitude for a month of headaches, falling plaster on your head and unlooked for things.

Is your neighbor's dog pestering you?

Buy a special whistle (or device) , to which only animals react, and start communicating with the dog at the moment when its owners go to bed.

Are your upstairs neighbors too loving?

Are you tired of smoking on the balcony at night until the groans and creaking of the bed subside?

Write a love note for your neighbor's wife in beautiful handwriting (from, for example, a certain Vasya) and throw it in the mailbox (or put it in the door). It’s great if Vasya turns out to be another nasty and disgusting neighbor of yours - you’ll kill two birds with one stone.

All. You are gorgeous. You can sleep peacefully for the next week.

Do your neighbor and his not always sober friends constantly smoke on your stairs?

Do you hate smokers and start coughing long and tediously from the smoke? There is a great method to stop your neighbor from smoking!

At the bottom of the jar, which is usually placed “under cigarette butts” on the stairs, pour sulfur cut from matches . The neighbor won't smoke here anymore.

If, in terms of physical parameters, you are 20-40 kg ahead of your neighbor (and have done karate, sambo, or at least capoeira in the past), you can suddenly jump out of the apartment the moment he finishes smoking a cigarette and extinguish a neighbor with a cigarette from a fire extinguisher . There may not be any effect, but the wife’s stormy ovation is guaranteed.

Another, completely peaceful and, oddly enough, effective way to stop neighbors from smoking in the entrance.

Throw away all their “cigarette butt jars” and put up an ad instead “Whoever smokes here again will have to deal with me personally.”

No one knows who this terrible “with me personally” is, but it will be scary to smoke.

Does your neighbor's stereo become your alarm clock every morning?

Are the walls between apartments thin? And you want to shoot him with wolf berries from a slingshot?

Sprinkle (if he lives on the 1st floor) millet and seeds on his windowsill at night. Let him also have a “favorite” alarm clock.

A very cute way to take revenge on your neighbors...

… — post notices in your area (not in your neighbor’s path!) with the following content: “My daughter’s favorite cat has gone missing. Red-haired, thin. Responds to the nickname Kysya. Please bring it to ****. The reward is guaranteed (3000 rubles).”

Any cat of red (and not only) color will react to this nickname. The flow of “suffering” (grandmothers, children and homeless townspeople) with red cats will reach your neighbors immediately and for a long time.

Fun guaranteed!

There are ways to “poison the lives” of neighbors - a carriage and a small cart. Some masters even write entire multi-page manuals on “revenge” on neighbors.

But it is worth noting that sometimes It’s much more effective to invite your neighbors to your housewarming party (or just for a visit) for barbecues and a “glass of tea”, rather than organizing battles and competitions on the topic “who will take revenge on whom more gracefully.”

Also, do not forget that private property is inviolable. Just like the silence at night. And for any “revenge” they can be “administratively” or even criminally punished.

Be kinder, and don't forget to put yourself in your neighbors' shoes!

Have there been similar situations in your life? And how did you get out of them? Share your stories in the comments below!

Many people who do not have their own home perceive it as an absolute benefit, the advantages of which cannot be offset by any disadvantages. However, there are people who have their own property, but owning this property turns into a complete nightmare for them. A similar situation is possible if the apartment is owned not by one person, but by several or at least two.

A neighbor can cause a lot of inconvenience due to his character, habits, and behavior with other people. It is known that few people can tolerate such things for a long time, and get rid of an unwanted neighborhood by selling their share.

The problem is that once a potential buyer finds out who their next-door neighbor might be, the desire to own a stake in the property can evaporate in an instant.

Constant chaos, scandals, drunken feasts, especially at night, guests who are quite possibly in strained relations with the law.

This, of course, is terrible, but there are things you can do to sell your share in such an apartment.

Some sellers, out of desperation, begin to deceive potential buyers. Some experts advise laying out everything about your future purchase. In any case, there is no need to flaunt all the problems that arise when owning a home.

The fact is that any buyer understands that there are things that will be hidden from him. Don't forget that people look at the same things differently. For some, a periodically drunk neighbor is a nightmare, but for others it is a trifle that should not be paid attention to. And the future buyer will consider the problem solely from his own ideas. The new owner, for example, may strike up a friendship with a person whom the previous owner simply hates.

When offering your property, you must clearly and completely describe all the advantages of this very property. Sometimes our perception of a problem can cause us to forget the value of what we own. For example, housing may be located close to transport hubs, close to the place of work, there is a school, kindergarten and other necessary institutions and shops nearby.

You need to try to control yourself, not show your relationship with the co-owner, and not try to pour out your soul to him. If the buyer says that he doesn’t like the potential neighbor, some experts advise saying that, in principle, one can find a common language with him, and that the problem is not as complicated as it might seem.

If a buyer sees that an apartment or house is cluttered, he may hesitate to buy such a property.

The apartment should look presentable; even the unlucky co-owner can clean up the area for this purpose. If this is not possible, it is advisable to at least remove the available area of ​​the apartment. Experts advise paying special attention to the kitchen and bathroom.

Unpleasant odors can be removed or the room can be filled with pleasant aromas.

A neighbor may turn out to be such a repulsive factor that it would be better to remove him from the apartment or house during the inspection. Sometimes it is even advisable to give him some money for this, so that he does not frighten a possible buyer with his appearance.

Everything is much simpler if the co-owner is periodically at work, the inspection of the apartment can be carried out during working hours.

If traces of a “difficult neighbor” cannot be eliminated, the buyer may be offered a discount. In an extremely difficult situation, you can turn to realtors who deal with such cases, but this will cost a pretty penny, because... such housing is relatively cheap, and it will be necessary to calculate the losses from such a transaction. It is important that the neighbor does not become a victim of scammers or bandits, and the seller does not become an accomplice in the crime.

Anton Borisov, from UZH mail

None of the realtors would call transactions with rooms in communal apartments simple. First of all, because every third such transaction does not take place without conflicts with neighbors.

New wave
Today, the St. Petersburg real estate market is witnessing a new wave of attempts at raider seizures of apartments. Often this is precisely the goal pursued by people who post advertisements “I will buy a share in an apartment urgently and at an expensive price.”

In practice, the capture mechanism looks like this. Someone buys a share of the apartment from one of the co-owners, moves in and begins to lead an asocial lifestyle. Loud music until the morning, noisy guests, drinking... This person especially tries to make noise when potential buyers come to look at the apartment, vying for the remaining shares.

Naturally, the apartment becomes illiquid. And the owners of the remaining rooms are forced to sell their shares at a low price to the very people who moved the rowdy into the apartment.

Also, according to realtors, there are more and more cases when the struggle for “survival” begins between relatives. However, the overwhelming majority of transactions with shares in St. Petersburg are still carried out not with “family” apartments, but on the “communal apartment” market. Moreover, there are more than one hundred thousand of them in the city.

And, according to estimates from the St. Petersburg Chamber of Real Estate, co-owners of a communal apartment try to interfere with the co-owner who decided to sell his share in approximately 25-30% of cases. “Often co-owners create scandals when potential buyers are viewing a room, change the locks on the doors or install additional bolts,” says Dmitry Shchegelsky, president of the St. Petersburg Chamber of Real Estate.

Legal details
In most cases, only legal literacy can help the seller and buyer find a way out of a difficult situation.

Let us remind you: in accordance with Article 244 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, housing owned by two or more persons belongs to them under the right of common ownership. This right is of two types - joint ownership, without determining the shares of each owner. And equity - where it is expressed as a share or percentage.

For order, we should also mention such a form of ownership as separate. This is, for example, housing that belonged to one of the spouses before marriage and, accordingly, remains exclusively his property. Or, for example, real estate received by one of the spouses as a gift, inheritance or other gratuitous transactions. Finally, a provision for the property to remain separate property may be included in the prenuptial agreement. But for now, such documents are more exotic than the rule. And, as the Notary Chamber of St. Petersburg warns, Rosreestr does not register the terms of marriage contracts. Therefore, if a document is lost, it will be difficult to prove anything.

However, according to Sergei Podlevskikh, General Director of AVENTIN-Center for Legal Services LLC, there are few jointly owned apartments on the St. Petersburg housing market. Therefore, further we will talk about shared ownership.

At the same time, you need to understand the peculiarities of such ownership. Sergei Podlevskikh gives the following example. Two owners own a two-story house in equal shares. And they verbally agreed that one lives on the first floor, the other on the second. Let's say there is a fire and the second floor burns down. In this case, not all of the second owner’s property is “lost,” but half of each. And the second owner remains in possession of half of the unburned first floor. Which infringes on the interests of the first owner.

And such real estate can only be sold if all co-owners agree to it. In other words, the common right of ownership is not always convenient for co-owners.

Step towards independence
But the situation can be corrected. If co-owners intend to independently dispose of their share, they should contact a notary. And he will certify the agreement of the parties on determining the procedure for use and ownership.

Let us explain with the following example. Three owners live in a three-room apartment. In this case, the agreement will specify who disposes of which share of the property, and, for example, who will live in which room. Moreover, if the procedure for use is determined, each of the co-owners has the right to rent out “their” room without the consent of the other owners.

And in the case of division of common property, each owner will be able to claim exactly “their” part of the housing.

The sale of such a share is carried out according to the same rules as the sale of a room in a communal apartment. The second and third co-owners have the right of first refusal.
In turn, the buyer of the share needs to remember that the transaction will be valid only with the written consent of all co-owners of the apartment.

Finally, this nuance is also important. A share expressed in shares or percentages means ownership not only of part of the apartment, but also of the common property of the house. The shares of all owners are summed up, and each becomes the owner of a proportionate part of the common property.

Neighbors' advantage
As mentioned above, both in a “family” apartment and in a “communal apartment” the co-owners have a preferential right to purchase the room (share) for sale. This means, explain the lawyers of the Center for Real Estate Services, that the seller is obliged to notify all co-owners of his intentions to sell his property. And they, if they wish, can buy the room themselves on the terms proposed by the seller.

The notice must contain the seller's stated price and other terms of the transaction. If the seller has good relations with the neighbors and they do not apply for the room, he can himself collect their refusals to purchase in writing. The notification can also be sent by telegram. But, realtors advise, it is better for it to be a registered letter with acknowledgment of delivery and an inventory of the contents. And the notary sent this document.

If the seller writes one price in this notice and then sells the property “outside” at a lower price, each of the co-owners will have the right to protest the transaction in court within three months.

And if not one co-owner, but several, express a desire to buy a room, the seller will choose who to deal with at his own discretion. Selling “outside” is only possible if the co-owners of the apartment refuse.

You won't be able to hide
At first glance, such rules allow co-owners who do not want to allow the sale of a room to an outsider to prevent the transaction indefinitely.

The first trick is to hide from notification. It is no secret that many co-owners have been living at other addresses for a long time. But, as explained in the Notary Chamber of St. Petersburg, the notary sends two letters - to the place of registration of the co-owner and to the location of the property being sold. He waits a month and considers the lack of response as a refusal. And then it issues a certificate that the co-owner did not exercise his right of pre-emption.

The motivation is as follows: the right of ownership imposes certain obligations on the owner and at least once a month he must appear at the address of his property and get acquainted with the incoming mail.

The second trick is to respond to the notification by declaring that you are ready to purchase the share put up for sale. But there is no money yet. Therefore, they say, wait until I save up.

But this approach is not able to stop the sale. As Sergei Podlevskikh explains, even if one of the neighbors is clearly interested, the seller is not obliged to wait longer than a month.
By the way, in turn, it is better for a third-party buyer not to take the seller’s word that all co-owners have been notified, but to verify this personally. You can find out the real number of co-owners by requesting an extract from the Unified State Register from Rosreestr.

To be fair, it should be clarified that the seller of the room may generally evade the obligation to offer neighbors the right of pre-emption. But in this case, he will be breaking the law: the seller receives the money in an envelope, and transfers the room to the buyer through a gift agreement.

Naturally, in this situation the rights of co-owners will be violated. But, as market participants admit, co-owners often cannot prove anything in court. After all, even the fact that an advertisement for the sale of a room is published in the media is not direct evidence of the sale. The seller can calmly say that at first he wanted to sell, and then changed his mind and “gave it to a good person.”

Theoretically, the offer of a share in a jointly owned apartment is of interest to citizens wishing to obtain St. Petersburg registration (propiska). After all, the owner has every right to register in the share he purchased, and the size of the share will not matter. In addition, the new owner will be able to register his children under the age of 14 years. But there are already specialized agencies on the market that are selling apartments “for registration” literally by the meter. And this option for solving the registration problem will be much cheaper.