What are your biggest property turn offs when viewing a house?

Davesnave

It's mainly location features that turn me off, such as: poor aspect, no control of sunshine, above 500', poor access, risk of flooding, etc, etc.

The land with it should be 'interesting,' not just a big, empty field.

I like rural, but 'remote' is out.

I won't look at anything Grade2 listed, or thatched.

I don't care whether the owners are tidy etc, but a house that has visibly bodged features will have at least twice as many hidden ones.

If I get excited, I take lots of photos to study before another viewing. I might also take photos if it's funny in some way or other.

woodworm001

It's quite interesting to see some of the things that put people off as half of them never occurred to me or I just don't care about ....

My list ...

Small garden
Overlooked by neighbours
Neighbours with children
Busy roads
New build box on estate


Kitchens and bathrooms may put me off to a point, but if there is scope to change things I'd probably be happy.

Davesnave

woodworm001 wrote: »

Neighbours with children

That's a bit hard to control, given that you may not know exactly who's there, or indeed who might be there a year from the viewing.

It's not necessarily an issue either, especially with modern kids often not being allowed/wanting to go out much. Where we used to live, there were 11 children in the small area around the head of a cul-de-sac, yet we hardly ever saw them.

Currently, we have 3 kids living next door. I can predict with some accuracy that we shall see them on October 31st, when they come to spook us. After that, there will be nothing till spring.

(We are the only people they are allowed to spook. Total cost: one bag of Haribo E numbers. )

hells_bells

rubbish in neighbouring gardens,
music playing loudly from nearby properties,
heavy traffic,
England flags in the window,
Christmas decorations still up in august

woodworm001

Davesnave wrote: »

That's a bit hard to control, given that you may not know exactly who's there, or indeed who might be there a year from the viewing.

You are correct, it's not something you could control, but I wouldn't choose to buy somewhere I knew had them. In reality I'd rather not have neighbours

Hazel_Taylor

Smell and destroyed carpets because it takes a lot of time and also money to fix.

DRP

EA/vendors who are totally chancing their arm.


I saw quite a few places where they were priced right above the top end of the street/area just for the reason that another house had sold similarly. However when you check the details the other house(s) were far superior either in size or condition...

You just know it'll be a hard slog trying to get the vendors to think realistically

SuperSaver123

tealady wrote: »

My turn offs are
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6) Poor broadband speed

How do you know it is going to be poor when you only come to view the house?

busymumof3

Supposing a house met my basic requirements being in the right location and having the number of rooms I needed my biggest no nos would be

Smelling of cigarette smoke
Poor natural lighting
Poor layout, rooms off of rooms
Mean room dimensions
Lack of good storage
Lack of a bath
No decent size hallway or preferably vestibule or porch
Stairway off of a main living space
Lack of improvement potential
Any weird adaptations or add-ons
On or near a busy road
Parking issues
Close to electricity pylons
Proximity of open grass areas, children's play areas or public pathways to side or rear of the property

I would always use google maps to look for any neighbouring undesirable features and would always prefer a slightly down at heel property that could be turned into something better rather than paying for someone else's 'improvements'.

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays

A gimp suit in the basement.