Would you buy a new build next door to someone keeping pigeons

dc197

As Spider says.
I think people are confusing Trafalgar Square-style verminous pigeons with pigeons kept by a fancier.

I kept bees next to a pigeon loft, and occasionally poked my head round to look at the birds. I don't recall a smell or a noise.

Loanranger

No matter how clean the loft, the birds still poo all over your washing, car, windows as soon as they are released.

martinthebandit

My neighbours pigeon loft causes us no problems whatsoever, don't know what some posters are thinking but they are wrong.

No poo over washing, parked cars etc etc

dragonsoup

No - doesn't matter what the reality of a pigeon loft is like. Well kept or not it would put off a lot of buyers as this thread shows.

AdrianC

dragonsoup wrote: »

No - doesn't matter what the reality of a pigeon loft is like. Well kept or not it would put off a lot of buyers as this thread shows.

^ THIS is the key.

Those with a clue or experience may well know the reality. One of them might buy the house.

BUT... a good swathe of the population (perhaps smaller if pigeon lofts are common in your area*, perhaps higher if most local people's main experience of them is at tube stations and Trafalgar Square) will just go "Ew! Flying rats! Forty-seven known diseases!" and walk straight past to the next property on the EA's list.

Reality is trumped by perception, every single time.

* - and I even managed to resist a flat-cap-and-whippet crack. Oops.

vacationgirl

I wouldn't personally, I can't stand the cooing sound they make.

I agree they are flying vermin.

Running_Horse

Not pigeons, but one house we viewed had several outbuildings which from the noise were obviously full of dozens, if not hundreds, of birds making constant noise. It annoyed me on a ten minute viewing, and would have driven me nuts on a permanent basis.

Pigeons may or may not be better, but large quantities of livestock will always put off a good percentage of future buyers.

Marvel1

Pigeons or screaming children in the garden next door, I would prefer the pigeons.

AdrianC

cjdavies wrote: »

Pigeons or screaming children in the garden next door, I would prefer the pigeons.

So would I. But if there's a third choice - neither - then...

takethatfan1978

Please don't!!!

I have had someone living next door to me with pigeons for 12 years and its an absolute nightmare. Its not particularly the pigeons you should worry about but more the noise of whoever it is that has them. Up early in the morning especially on nice days letting them out and then shouting them in again. All the people that will congregate round the house, pigeon racing is a serious sport and the amount of folk I have at my door asking for the !!!! next door is unreal.

When we moved in we were told by our neighbour when we were allowed out in our garden due to races- yeah right!

The birds used to fly out of the hut and straight onto my roof above my kitchen door-it was horrible. We eventually planted trees, they can now no longer do that but the grief we have received is awful. Our rhones are always full of crap that needs cleaned. My neighbour is just horrible and will always be out if I am ever in the garden. I rarely go out now as I cant be bothered with him shouting on them constantly.

When my dog died and we were burying her he was even out letting them all out. He could see us digging the hole and couldn't wait half an hour before coming out.

In the summer months the pigeons are very noisy early in the morning, you wouldn't think cooing could be loud but it is! Also they do smell, in the summer it is horrible. They get cleaned out frequently but that does not make a difference as it gets wafted about all over the place.