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What should the first photo on Rightmove be?
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Toilets ofcourse...Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. - Alex Supertramp0
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Front of property, as others have said if you try and hide what the place looks like people just assume its a dog, and it nearly always is.0
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We are tentatively looking to see what is out there and as a result I live on RM constantly lol,
Anyway for me, front of property, I agree with what Pinkteapot said.Save 8k in 2013: Member #100
£450 / £8000
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I don't think I would ever turn down a property on the basis of what it looked like from the front. Would be easy enough to repaint, etc.
But a house with a small kitchen would be crossed off the list.
So I can see their point.
But even so I disagree. As others have said, it is the established norm that you put the outside of the house as the first picture. Whether that norm is correct or not the assumption is that if you don't follow the norm you are doing so because you've got something to hide.0 -
every time I look further at a house where the outside is not shown first, it has been as it is an ugly house! I agree with the majority here.0
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Front of the property. We sold and bought last year and the front of the front of the property was important to us - not the condition - just the overall picture and if I found it attractive then I looked at the rest of the pics.0
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Front, but with a caveat. If the house has a particular feature that makes it different from bog-standard boxiness and is desirable in itself, then take advantage of it.0
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They might be right...kitchen first. It's probably the dealbreaker in most houses
You skate past an ugly house and don't look inside it.
But if you see a great kitchen 1st, you might see the outside and say "mm we could do,.... what if..."Stop! Think. Read the small print. Trust nothing and assume that it is your responsibility. That way it rarely goes wrong.
Actively hunting down the person who invented the imaginary tenure, "share freehold"; if you can show me one I will produce my daughter's unicorn0 -
Front for me too.0
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I don't want the front, back, kitchen or bidet first. What I want is an aerial photo showing exactly which property it is, with the boundaries of its garden outlined in red. Then I wouldn't need to waste time working that stuff out before going:
"Doh, it's on the main road!"
"Aarrgghh it's on a north facing slope below a wood!"
"Pft! It's thirty metres downwind of the sewage works!"
It doesn't matter what most places look like, because they will never rise above the limits of their situation, no matter how much money is thrown at them.0
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