What would put you off a house...?

Davesnave

Bass_9 wrote: »

:rotfl: That decor brings a whole new meaning to 'purple bricks'...
Perhaps the owner is Tinky Winky?

It all adds up. He died a short time ago....

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jan/23/teletubbies-tinky-winky-actor-simon-barnes-dies-aged-52

YoungBlueEyes

Holy Jesus! They've even got that carpet in the kitchen :eek:

thermal2844

We are currently searching for our first home so our budget is relatively modest, and I find that my small list of dealbreakers rules out nearly every house. In fact, after looking through hundreds of listings, only 1 is a contender (which we'll be viewing tomorrow).

- Lack of privacy / very overlooked
- Tiny garden
- Chavvy neighbourhood
- Looks dark / depressing (a suprising amount of homes...)

Pretty much anything else I can live with if it's private with a decent sized garden to work with, and the neighbourhood feels safe.

Andalya

A super low EPC that needs tons of work to bring up to something decent, or can't be raised above a D for whatever reason. My partner refuses to view anywhere that wasn't built within the last 70 years having grown up in a 500 year old cottage and thus being totally put off by all of the little bits of maintenance and endless endless dust. Shame, since I did too, and I loved the feel of a house like that :rotfl:

jedthehumanoid

We had a lot of 'deal breakers' when we started to look. Now we've found something we would like to make an offer on it has pretty much every one included and we're not put off. Things that we thought were no-no's but we are now considering, all in one house...


Mid Terrace
Oil central heating
Flat roof to kitchen and utility room
Internal, downstairs bathroom
Shared access road to rear


Funny how quickly we ignored these because the house feels right.

cloo

Stone cladding!
Final bedroom being a box (always a challenge)
Extended to maximum but still not quite big enough
Extended so far back that the garden's the size of a postage stamp!
Horrible views (though that said, we don't have great view out front)
100% open plan downstairs (aside from loo! But that said, especially if the loo was also open plan :rotfl:)


Gotta say our house:
Has no off-street parking
No street access to garden
Garden is small
House is rather dark (but won't be once we repaint the acres of brown wood in hallway white as it is in neighbours' houses)


But it still works nicely for us.

Ruby_Styles

If it had one of those old horrible polycarbonate roofs so that you can't use the conservatory in any weahter because it's too hot in summer and too cold in winter. ahha

Pablo_59

Being Leasehold, especially on any new build. Plus any Maintenance charges which are Fleecehold.
Dont believe me see nationalleaseholdcampaign.org

babyblade41

No north facing garden,
Not overlooked
off the main road
Must have huge garden or outside space
No flat roof
No new builds must have at least 50 - 60 years in it
Must have a big garage
No neighbours next door
Rural and if I move next time the house must be bloody registered !!!

Spriggan

A decent amount of natural light. I'm not expecting huge bay windows or anything (I'm looking in London, so being realistic is important!) but I can't live anywhere that feels dark.