Neighbours rotary washing line hindering our house sale

AdrianC

PasturesNew wrote: »

On the other hand, no matter how abhorrent you find any particular displeasing "feature", others might light up with delight....

TBH, anybody "lighting up with delight" at the thought of next door's grundies drying on the whirlygig is even weirder than the people running screaming at the merest thought of it.

WeAreGhosts

There must be a lot of narrow minded people where you live. I've lived next to people who may not have the nicest gardens or homes, but they were lovely people. I now live in quite a well-to-do area, with detached homes that have lovely gardens but my closest neighbours are rude and vindictive. I know who I'd rather have as a neighbour ...

(and I have to look at my neighbour's bloomers on the rotary dryer seeing as she's put it right near my window!)

Marvel1

They look after after the landlord's house by drying outside.

Maybe I need to tell neighbours to put the washing away when I'm sitting out the back garden.

Blackpool_Saver

It's like bins at the front, you just don't do it

Humdinger1

The neighbours may be keen environmentalists who feel that a tumble dryer is environmentally indefensible; costs a fortune to run; is a potential fire risk; and the washing never smells as nice as when dried outdoors. Those attitudes aren't generally found in undesirable neighbours, but considerate ones who care about the planet and their impact on it I'd suggest? It's a free country but I'm astounded by the disapproval here.

Yellow_mango

I’m genuinely confused about what “type” of person would dry their clothes on a rotary airer that would be so offensive to live next to.

Do laundry drying habits really predict unsociable behaviours?

I’m obviously naive to assume that they probably just want to dry their clothes outdoors in an economic and environmentally friendly way. :shrug:

Atomix

All Viewings done - only when raining...?

iammumtoone

It would not bother me that someone chooses to hang washing out front but what is does do is draw the attention to the buyer that there is nowhere else to dry washing.


Its like when you see a vacuum cleaner out on show it just draws attention to the fact there is no out of sight storage for it.


Having said the above if the house is priced right it will still sell as there has to be compromise with every house within the buyers budget. Its like I live in a terrace 90% of the houses have their bins out the front, houses still sell down this road as you expect its never going to be perfect, if your budget is a cheap terrace house.

oystercatcher

This confuses me too. I don't see a problem with a rotary line in a front garden if that's the only space.

I regularly walk past a lovely detached 4 bed-roomed house with a beautiful garden, the residents clearly care about the environment as they have solar panels and a water butt visible, and also a rotary washing line in the front garden because that is clearly the place which catches the sun. Maybe they have another line at the back too? It's a nice house in a nice area and I would happily live near them if I could afford to (I can't ! )

There are a couple of other places nearby where I can see washing lines, the houses just fit in with the rest of the area, one is in a rougher area and one slightly better , its more than a washing line that is giving the impression of what the area is like .

I would love to see a picture of the offending line and a link to the property !

davidmcn

Yellow_mango wrote: »

I’m genuinely confused about what “type” of person would dry their clothes on a rotary airer that would be so offensive to live next to.

Do laundry drying habits really predict unsociable behaviours?

I’m obviously naive to assume that they probably just want to dry their clothes outdoors in an economic and environmentally friendly way. :shrug:

I'm also a bit baffled about what's so horrifying about some washing being out to dry. If she doesn't have a back garden then where would one expect her to put it? It hardly seems a reason for buyers to discount an otherwise worthwhile house, so I suspect at most it's somebody's odd bit of feedback to the EA when they're stuck for an excuse.