As you might recall, my daughter just over 12 months ago, was living in our bungalow with her family while the house she was buying was being built.
The houses were being built by a few well known house builders. This scheme was mixed, home owners and affordable housing (part rent/part buy.
They have now sold up and moved again, their lives were made a nightmare. During the summer they couldn't sleep with their windows open because of the cussing and noise. The kids were only about 14 but hung around until the small hours smoking and drinking. As they drifted off the young un's came out, kids roaming the streets as young as 3 at 7.30am. They were that desperate to get out they found a house to rent and paid the mortgage on the property until it was sold. They love this rented property so much, which is 5 minutes walk from us, they are seriously thinking of staying there. They now wish they had originally stayed in the first house they were buying, four houses back :O(
I told them, buying your own home isn't the be all end all, the main thing is to be happy and this seems to be the case where they are now. Not only that, they are close if they need us to help with anything and we get to see the grandchildren more often.