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

ibizafan_2

I'm not keen on lounge diners, so if there was no scope for making the kitchen into a reasonable size for eating in, it would be a deal breaker. I can overlook decor if the location is perfect and the house faces the right way for sun. Other than that, I agree with most of the points already raised, especially busy roads and being overlooked.

phoebe1989seb

House modernised to within an inch of its life - prefer something *untouched*

Over-extended

Anything post 1930s

Pylons close to house/garden

Overlooked garden

Courtyard garden

Busy road

Lack of hallway (or potential to create one)

Solar panels

Sound leaking through walls from any adjoining properties

GalaxyStar

Any noise from neighbours coming through, very sensitive to things like that! One house we could hear next doors TV during viewing!
When the EA photos make the kitchen look massive and when you get there it was actually just the angle they took it and it's so tiny it's barely a kitchen, and then they've stuffed a tiny table in to make it a kitchen/diner!
Not a big fan of kitchen diners either so when no floor plan or details but photos make it look like they're separate rooms very disappointed when I found they weren't!
Galley kitchens, god I hate those especially when there's no way to extend the kitchen at all
People parking all over the street, have enough of that with living at my parents house having to dodge cars all the way down and really thin roads that only have room for one car to go down at a time
When the neighbours have birds in their garden. One houses neighbour had a massive shed that was full of pigeons that went full length of their garden. No thanks!
Bathrooms that dont have enough room to actually open the door fully, I can deal with removing and getting a new bathroom - we have done - but when there's that little space it's too small!
Tiny driveway and no garage or scope to make it bigger at least
laundry being out, find it kind of awkward, wouldn't put me off the house but still!

Most things I can see past as proved by our first house!

ReadingTim

Between a good listing (ie photos and floorplan) on Rightmove and a bit of Google Streetview, nothing visual should put me off a house by the time I actually visit it - most, if not all of the deal breakers people have talked about above should be obvious online, and I simply won't visit the property.

That leaves the stuff you can't get from a computer screen - the sounds, the smells and the feeling you have when you walk into a place for the first time - that thing that just clicks in your brain and says "this is my home"...

tryfan

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

Smell! Everything else I can see 'potential' but if it smells bad it really puts me off.

Saw a house recently great location, a little rundown but not too bad, the worst thing was the smell of cigarette smoke. The owner must on be a pack a day and never opens a window. Each to their own but for me thats a deal breaker.

SG27

Mojisola wrote: »

Seriously? :rotfl:

Absolutely id never buy a house where the oven handle was used as towel rail. No way in hell.

jaylee3

SG27 wrote: »

Absolutely id never buy a house where the oven handle was used as towel rail. No way in hell.

Seems it's a popular opinion on here, because I wouldn't either!

Who knows what else they're using as towel rails!!! :eek:

They may even put them on the radiators!!!

System

jaylee3 wrote: »

Seems it's a popular opinion on here, because I wouldn't either!

Who knows what else they're using as towel rails!!! :eek:

They may even put them on the radiators!!!

No excuse for doing this! I have one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Cabinet-Holder-Hanger-Storage/dp/B000SO5DR8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414445846&sr=8-1&keywords=cupboard+towel+rail as got nowhere else to stick a towel, apart from the oven handle. I don't like the towels over oven handle. One of my friends who is house proud ruins her neatness by using very old holey tea towels dropped over the oven handle.

jaylee3

ScarletMarble wrote: »

No excuse for doing this! I have one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kitchen-Cabinet-Holder-Hanger-Storage/dp/B000SO5DR8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1414445846&sr=8-1&keywords=cupboard+towel+rail as got nowhere else to stick a towel, apart from the oven handle. I don't like the towels over oven handle. One of my friends who is house proud ruins her neatness by using very old holey tea towels dropped over the oven handle.

But surely someone using the oven handles for a towel rail, would not put you off buying the house?!!!!! :eek:

System

jaylee3 wrote: »

But surely someone using the oven handles for a towel rail, would not put you off buying the house?!!!!! :eek:

They have a really manky towel on there. Hiding the state of the oven perhaps?