Residents of a quiet Surrey village are struggling to sell their homes after a traveller 'land-grab' caused 'three months of sheer hell'.Locals in Alford watched in horror as a group of travellers descended on a nearby field on April 2 before transforming it into a 17-plot 'gated community' without planning permission. One 'heartbroken' woman who is currently trying to sell her house says only one person has viewed it over the last three months. She claimed her neighbours had been forced to reduce their asking prices in a desperate bid to sell. 'I am heartbroken - it's devastating when we've worked hard all our lives, saved and done the right thing,' the woman told the Daily Mail. 'Now we have them across the road, who would want to live here? We've had one viewer in three months. We put it up as soon as the rumours were flying around that they were coming.'One of the properties for sale is a £600,000 three-bedroom barn conversion described in listings as 'exceptionally spacious' and 'beautifully presented'. However, it is also one of the homes closest to the unauthorised site.Residents in Alford claim traveller children have stolen ornaments and adults have yelled abuse. 'All hell' descended on the sleepy home county village of Alford on April 2, when the group transformed a rural field into a 17-plot 'gated community' Travellers unveiled this sign at the illegal site less than a week after moving in