If you have a disagreement with your neighbour or cannot get along with them it’s usually in your best interests to resolve it as quickly as possible, before it has time to fester and escalate, and there are a number of things that you can do to improve the situation, both in advance to pre-empt problems, and when they occur. Firstly, I make a point of introducing myself to new tenants who move into the flat below ours, which is let and I am always friendly and polite, offeri

Living in close proximity with others as many of us do in the city, and being generally quite territorial creatures, there is no end to the difficult issues that can arise between neighbours, many of which I see in my work as a community mediator, helping people resolve their neighbour disputes. Yet we can avoid difficulties and cultivate great relationships with neighbours and they can even be a hugely useful resource if we go about things in the right way. Unlike our partne