and this is advertised as a 'nice garden'

betterlatethannever

This is what angers me about rentals/agents.:( how dare they advertise this as such.
Also nice garden to the rear. Viewing is recommended to appreciate the
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-56675285.html

Can anyone here describe this as a 'nice garden'?

G_M

well if you're a vegetarian, or a rabbit perhaps.....

PasturesNew

It is nice .... compared to the inside

Riggyman

I've seen worse...

lessonlearned

I've seen worse.......Its nothing that can't be sorted with half a days work. Tidy up the front, cutting back the shrubs, a couple of pots for colour, bit of turf or some lawn seed at the back, job done.

There's a house near me owned by The local authority which is used as a rental. The back garden is choked with briars with vicious thorns, weeds and grasses several feet high, and overgrown shrubs. You couldn't even walk through it to peg washing out, it's so overgrown. It's like an illustration for Sleeping Beauty where the castle grounds haven't been touched for 100 years. You would need a machete to hack through it and that's without trying to tackle the roots.

They have let it to a young couple with two toddlers, poor little things can't go out to play in their own garden. Even if the young couple managed to clear it, they don't have a car to take the debris to the tip and of course there are no brown bin collections any more.

It would fill at least one skip, which as we know don't come cheap. I don't think they could afford a skip.

I think the LA were totally unfair to this couple. The previous tenants trashed the house and the LA have barely touched it, just doing the absolute minimum to keep the accommodation legal.

The garden in the link is a a little gem by comparison.

Davesnave

I can describe it as a potentially nice garden, because no garden, rented or owned, looks after itself. It needs a bit of work, that's all.

It's not too large to manage, it isn't overlooked from behind and it faces south.

Anyway, LAs often use old photos, so for all we know it could look like the Eden Project now, though I'd not put money on that!

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl: at "not too large to manage".

That landlord needs to rip everything out of that garden. As a rental property, I'd probably stick in a bit of decent paving stones for seating area and little "bed" of permanent type planting in one corner.

As an owner-occupier - I'd do a small very nice patio for table/chairs and work on growing tall and taller permanent plants round garden edges to have semi-wild enclosed garden room type effect.

Either way - "bijou" is the word I would use for it.

Missus_Hyde

Davesnave wrote: »

I can describe it as a potentially nice garden, because no garden, rented or owned, looks after itself. It needs a bit of work, that's all

Exactly; if the agent had put in the word "potentially" in front of "nice garden", then it would be a more accurate description.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

:rotfl: at "not too large to manage".

"bijou" is the word I would use for it.

The back garden is about 25' x 15' in old money and there's a front garden too around 15' long. This is about the same or slightly more than on many new builds and a very common size.

The landlord doesn't 'need' to do anything, if the property lets without difficulty.

J_i_m

Indeed, it would only take a little bit of work to turn that into a pleasant garden. Get groundforce in and they'd have it done in a jiffy.

But yes, agents can very often be creative with their descriptions. I recently viewed an apartment where the agent tried using the view as a selling point. Their description was "A lovely view of the chiltern hill countryside and prior church". In reality the view consisted of a police station, car-park and shopping centre. To be fair the spire of a different church than mentioned was visible.

Now, I'm hardly in a position to choose a property based on the view from the lounge but if you're going to use it as a selling point then a) get your topography correct and b) make sure it actually is a nice view... otherwise don't mention it.

marksoton

Lets face it EA's use overly positive language at the best of times!

As for the garden, doesn't look too bad to me.Just a bit of work required that's all.

What constitutes "nice" is subjective.One person might want the entire area decked whilst a veg patch enthusiast would consider that sacrilege.