which house would you buy given the choice of those 2

eldaniel

Cakeguts wrote: »

What's that thing in the floor of the long thin bedroom in house no 2? It looks like some sort of vent.

It was the vent which was there when house was originally built but after extension was done ceiling on the ground floor in the hall is without any vent so it is just "decorative". Tbh i would get rid of that by laying new carpet there.

eldaniel

LittleMax wrote: »

Are you sure? Isn't this coach house in there?

The house you are looking at is no 20 and joined across the arch to no 10. Where are 12, 14. 16 and 18? Plus the 3 Gresley Drive flats listed on the plaque at the entrance - and looking at previous sales on Rightmove they seem to be built over garages too.

Now I am lost... Will check that tomorrow

glasgowdan

I'd buy neither. Wait a bit longer

Davesnave

glasgowdan wrote: »

I'd buy neither. Wait a bit longer

Sorry, but I agree. There are never only two options.

dirty_magic

I don't think I'd buy either of them tbh, but until you've seen a house you can't get a feel for it really IMO. If I'd just looked at the pictures of ours on the internet I wouldn't have bought ours either. I think you'd know if one of them was right for you.

I hate the garden in the first and I don't like the idea of a coach house but I think the interior needs less work than the second.

IMO the second needs a new kitchen and the living room isn't my style at all. I also think the extension is ugly and it makes the 3rd bedroom too long and thin. I can see why they've done it, but even though it makes the room useable it's an odd shape.

hazyjo

Would rule the first one out due to the coach-house bit (room over drive-through bit), and would rule the second one out as on a main-ish road.


If I had a gun to my head, I'd pick the second as the first one reminds me of an estate I lived at where I wasn't happy! The second one has a feeling of 'home' about it, but not sure why.


Jx

TBagpuss

I'm in the 'neither' camp too - I really dislike the coach house/ underpass issue with the first, and the concrete garden, and the second one sems to have potential issues with parking and the weird floor vent thing, not to mention the main road.

That saod, if I had no other choice, I would probably go for the second one, becuae of potential for noise, and heating issues with the bedroom over the passageway.

warby68

Neither for me

Coach house - disproportionate - its a starter home downstairs/decent up, possible haunted house feel of colder bedroom, the access road, bins (nowhere else?)

2nd one - weird looking design, parking, whats going on across the road

If these were the only 2 in the world though, probably 2nd in that first not worth £25k more

RedfordML

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

I would go for the semi. When I first looked at both I just preferred it, not sure why. The link detached with the roadway underneath would be a huge no, although I didn't pick up on that at first.

The garden in the semi looks well cared for which would lead me to think the rest of the house had been c/w potentially really no care from the link detached which had been tenanted.

Xxx

This, Property 2 for me. If you need to spend a few ££ on the place, you have the 25k you have saved not buying property 1!


good luck

fairy_lights

I really dislike the first house. The design of it seems all wrong, three bathrooms and a downstairs toilet - but then hardly any living space.