Neighbours rotary washing line hindering our house sale

Kim_kim

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

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

Really?
Most houses have bins at the front, usually to the side.
Mine are to the side, but in the front.

Kim_kim

iammumtoone wrote: »

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.

God yes, terraced houses don’t have a choice about bins, they are hardly going to drag them through the house.

davidmcn

letitbe90 wrote: »

Surprised so many are defending the clothes hanging in the front garden - did it not occur to you guys why it is such a rare occurrence? Why only that one person on the street does it?

Because they're the ones who don't have a back garden? It's obviously going to be more common in areas where the housing style doesn't feature back gardens. And if they don't also have a back garden then at least you don't need to be concerned about whatever they would do in a back garden affecting you...

davidmcn

Kim_kim wrote: »

Most houses have bins at the front

Please show your working.

melanzana

The irony of this is, if OP posted up his/her house, with next door's front garden in view, the first comment would be "OMG dear, that rotary line in the front garden next door will kill it for your viewers, can you ask next door to move it"

There can be a lot of hypocrisy on here. Bet most would not like to live beside a rotting rotary line in the front. Come on, be honest now. There are alternatives. Would put me off straight away, if everyone else observed the covenants of no visible clothes drying in the front.

gettingtheresometime

davidmcn wrote: »

Please show your working.

It's quite common around my area, especially as the council wont collect recycling from the back of the houses unlike the general rubbish, where they will (I don't understand that logic either).

I've seen it in areas of London where they have multiple bins as well.

I have tbh and admit our front garden is probably the most unkept front in the whole street but that didn't stop next door being sold within a fortnight of being put on the market.

markin

Is the a photo of your back yard, could you dry washing in it? That would put me off more if the isn't, and that its rented and the next tenant could be far worse!


You could ask the Landlord to install a dryer, or install it yourself with permission from the LL, if you really think that its a big problem

Gwendo40

If (and that's a very big IF) the rotary line really is putting off buyers then the answer is the same as with any other issues that can devalue a house... reduce the price accordingly.

onwards&upwards

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

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

Loads of people do it. As I look down my street about a third of their houses have their bins at the front or side. Some of them are ‘link detached’ so essentially terraced and they’d have to drag the bins through the garage otherwise. Some are bungalows so probably much easier for older people to manage if they’re at the front. Some are just ordinary family semis with the bins neatly lined up, maybe so there’s more play space for the kids in the back?

Murphybear

We have a lovely 3 tier heated airer that dries the washing indoors.

Maybe you could offer to buy your neighbour one