How do you discourage disreputable looking potential next door neighbours?

Next door are selling up and some new people have just arrived to look at the place with a view to potentially buying it.

This has caused great alarm for me because they don't look like they'd be a good fit for the neighbourhood.

My nephew insisted that I put on some obnoxious and horrible loud modern music but I don't feel comfortable doing that. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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questionWeaver

Urbanism is marked by a "not in my neighborhood" attitude.

Not that I disagree

To combat that, laws have been put into place to make it really hard to legally discourage new neighbors.

Short of zoning issues, there is little one can do.

We do not own our neighbors property and have no right to infringe on how it is enjoyed.

Feel for you