Most offputting thing

tealady

Never EVER on a main road. Lack of off road parking. On a steep hill (had a nasty accident slipping in icy weather.
Don't mind if the neighbours property needs a refurb as I would consider checking if the work could be enforced under Section 215 of the Town and Country Planning Act. Any way it could mean I get a good deal!

fionajbanana

Lack of parking. Don't fancy parking 3 streets away from my home esp in the winter
The general tidiness of people down the street. If there are houses with broken mattresses, rusty car bodies etc in their front gardens - no way.
Being on a major road
Being near takeaways. The smell. Plus at a house where I lived as a kid, the hedge in the front garden was full of chip papers. I lived the same number of minutes away from the chippie than it takes to eat a bag.

marlasinger

From my experience as someone who isn't particularly fond of where they are living now:

- being on a main road (listening to drunks stagger up the road, shouting at 3am isn't fun)
- parking - I'll never buy another place where I don't have off-road parking
- shared driveways or having a 'right of way' over common land
- being overlooked by neighbours

Tiglath

Noisy neighbours, screaming kids, barking dogs. I viewed a ground floor flat once - stepped inside the shared front door and the dog upstairs started to howl and dig at its front door. I turned round and walked back out - didn't even view the flat.

browneyedbazzi

Duskylady wrote: »

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

lol i love it! That's a bit how I feel where I live now because it's quite a posh area and I think I'm the only woman in the village who leaves the house without make-up on and hair done (I only tart up on special occasions!). I've also been known to nip to the shop in jogging bottoms and t-shirt with my hair in a pony tail :eek: I don't think the locals know what to make of that lol

Lionel_Thinkbag

For me it's bad architecture (featureless slave-boxes!), ASBO neighbours. No garden, being overlooked.

Really though the parameters change depending on the property. I don't think I could narrow it down to any one thing. We're just trying to find the 'worst house on the best street' :rotfl:

danwent

I can't stand new build - gloss over them on rightmove. They usually seem characterless, often pokey overlooked gardens. They don't make em like they used to. (I know thats a load of rubbish really - my Victorian semi is a pig to heat).

Oh, and shabby caravans on next doors front drive

4greenbottles

Road noise
No parking on property or allocated parking
Painted exterior
Being overlooked
No front garden
Front door straight into room rather than hall
Small kitchens
Only a Downstairs bathrooms
No mains gas
Postage stamp garden
Anywhere near a train station because if commuter parking


I consider all these as big things and a definite deal breaker on their own. I have to love a house to like it!

Vicky123

No parking
Overlooked
Small Kitchen

saterkey

Steep driveway
no parking
shared driveway
unkempt house next door
flags in windows of next door, footy ones
barking dogs
chavvy neighbours
people who sit in their front gardens, have bench etc.
overlooked
no garden out back
vans parked next door
lowered kerb access to your house/drive
lack of double glazing
crappy bathroom suite
old fashioned cooker etc - replaced ours don't want to go back to that.