What small niggles put you off from buying properties

Owain_Moneysaver

Front door opening directly into lounge.

I really prefer a vestibule with an inner front door between the outer front door and the hall.

da_rule

Personally, the layout. I hate having to walk through one room to get to another, that's what hallways are for. Probably a bit more than a niggle, as this would mean remodelling a house.

Davesnave

I don't understand the question.

If it's a niggle you just sort it later. Ignore it for now and focus on important things, like aspect, potential problem neighbours, layout, school catchment, or whatever.

If it's something very hard or impossible to alter, and it bothers you, then it isn't a niggle.

System

What mean by niggle is something small which could be rectified on the cheap like carpet in the bathroom for lino. Cost me £45 for doing this at one property I lived in.Some things I need from day 1 like a shower. Others can wait a few weeks.

Some niggles are more expensive to rectify and messy, or cannot be done at all. Saw one property on Have a Look At This board and the round kitchen sink was in the corner and impossible to replace with a 1.5 sink.

ukcarper

ScarletMarble wrote: »

What mean by niggle is something small which could be rectified on the cheap like carpet in the bathroom for lino. Cost me £45 for doing this at one property I lived in.Some things I need from day 1 like a shower. Others can wait a few weeks.

Some niggles are more expensive to rectify and messy, or cannot be done at all. Saw one property on Have a Look At This board and the round kitchen sink was in the corner and impossible to replace with a 1.5 sink.

Could that have been solved by moving the sick if so it wouldn't put be off if the price was right.


The house I'm in had plenty of thing I didn't like but I bought it with the intention of gradually putting them right because the price was right and the house was the right size and in the right place.

MoHunter

Guess I must not be too picky, I've never been put off by something that I would count as a niggle...

Only big things have put me completely off from viewing a house, such as a ridiculous asking price given the condition of the place, location/immediate neighbourhood, or it just being the wrong type of property for us (e.g. we're not interested in a bungalow or flat).

I don't mind having to change/fix relatively minor issues. But if I was being too picky there'd be hardly any properties in our area/budget left to consider at all, so I guess it depends on how choosy you can afford to be.

justcat

Stairs in the living room! I would very definitely turn down a house if it had stairs in the living room. In fact, I wouldn't have to turn it down as I wouldn't have looked at it in the first place!

movilogo

Lot of niggles can be accommodated if house is priced accordingly

Also, someone's +ve is someone else's -ve.

And if you are that fussy, in hot areas (like London) you have no chance to get a house then!

Niv

The number one niggle for me is if the rightmove page does not show the front of the house. I used to still look at houses that didnt have the front of the house as the first pic but over a period of time I have decided that they are not shown because the front of the house is ugly so now I dont look at any that dont show the frontage.

Prothet_of_Doom

The owner saying "we haven't found anywhere, but I've recently been promoted, so we are thinking about moving upwards"

That particular couple did move. 6 years later.

As far as houses go, my wife was put off by underpants drying on the radiator, and the George Cross and Union Flag flag poles of the neighbour across the road. (She assumed they must be members of the BNP.)