Most offputting thing

Beachview_2

What is the biggest thing that would put you off a property?

Spikey2

Parking problems! If I go to view a house and there's loads of cars parked all over the street, that's it, I wouldn't buy the house, no matter how nice a house it is. I already have neighbours who leave their cars all over the street, and even across my drive so I wouldn't want another house like that.

olgadapolga

Neighbours. Any neighbours.

I_have_spoken

Chavs as neighbours

LondonDreamer

I'm going to assume that I've already ruled out the obvious, such as location and basic size, e.g. number of bedrooms... so it would be the garden. Mainly lack of size and privacy.

gazter

Beachview wrote: »

What is the biggest thing that would put you off a property?

Poor broadband. Just moved from 40meg fibre to a property getting 0.5meg from BT. I wouldnt have moved there, if it wasnt for the option of a transmitter on the side of the house and a good 10meg, with fibre within two years.

Seriously, its that important to me.

marleyboy

Noisy or aggressive neighbour\hood.

jackomdj

Simply if it does not fit my ticklist! It could be a super house but if one of my must haves is missing then its a no. If one of the must not haves is there, it's a no. But a list of nice to haves can go either way.

Does not help with your original question though.

browneyedbazzi

For me the deal breaker is the neighbourhood/road the property is on - if it is unattractive or looks chavy then it doesn't matter how nice the house is. I'd rather have the worst house on a good road than the best house on a chavy one - you can do up the house but the road/neighbourhood is out of your control!

HTB_newbie

Small garden or tiny kitchen! Lack of potential.

Despite this we're buying a new build albeit one with 150ft garden!

With little ones a decent size garden is important as we want them to be inspired by speeding veggies grow etc... Our first house had. An veg garden but our2nd had a. Very smal. Garden and we realised how important this was to us!

Duskylady

Went to view one house, semi detached and was gorgeous in a great location and had all our must haves. However the adjoining property looked a compete disaster, holes in the roof, all the guttering had fallen off and never been fixed, garden looked as though it was the entrance way to narnia so we didn't offer. I felt quite sorry for the vendor as there was nothing she could do about the neighbours property.

We also had a general rule for locations we would consider that on buying a house we should feel we are lowering the tone of the neighbourhood