Neighbours rotary washing line hindering our house sale

POPPYOSCAR

I think there is a world of difference on a washing line in a front garden and one in the back.

It does obviously matter.

Our daughter's boyfriend owns a flat, with a balcony where they are not even allowed to hang washing outside anywhere!!

need_an_answer

POPPYOSCAR wrote: »

Our daughter's boyfriend owns a flat, with a balcony where they are not even allowed to hang washing outside anywhere!!

But that's not uncommon nowadays,I have 4 leasehold properties with the same restriction....all clearly defined in the lease,which no doubt your daughters boyfriend was made aware of when he purchased so it wouldn't have been a surprise

Nifer

I am not friends with my neighbour but we have small talk when we see each other and are polite. She is not the sort of person I would befriend being that she occasionally likes to sit smoking weed on her front doorstep while her young kid runs around, telling her she is ‘doing her f#!%ing head in’

Thank god she hasn’t happened to have been doing that when a viewing has taken place.

For all those saying it’s a caring about the environment thing, trust me in this case it is not!

Also given the current climate we have dropped our asking price twice in the 6 months it has been up equalling a total price drop of 25K. Unfortunately I think it is a buyers market at the moment so people can be picky. We’ll just keep trying and maybe I’ll purchase some nice screening plants to make her garden less visible from ours.

We are terraced house and the houses at the end are two one bedroom starter homes that back onto each other hence we have a back garden and those two do not

need_an_answer

So what feedback have you received from those that have viewed your property?

[Deleted User]

Is the front garden generally untidy and a mess? If so then that might be what is putting people off more so than the washing line.

I wouldn't be bothered seeing a washing line out the front as long as the garden was nicely kept. If however the grass hadn't been mown, there were kids toys all over the place, old furniture tossed out and left to rot and weeds growing everywhere then that is what would put me off.

I'd be careful broaching the subject with her. If she takes offense she might go out of her way to make things even more difficult for you.

lorelai34

I’ve just had to google what a rotary washing line is. Does no one else call it a whirly gig?

SallyDucati

lorelai34 wrote: »

I’ve just had to google what a rotary washing line is. Does no one else call it a whirly gig?

I used to but had forgotten until I saw your post!

POPPYOSCAR

need_an_answer wrote: »

But that's not uncommon nowadays,I have 4 leasehold properties with the same restriction....all clearly defined in the lease,which no doubt your daughters boyfriend was made aware of when he purchased so it wouldn't have been a surprise

Yes.

He has no problem with it.

It is obviously done to keep the area looking neat and tidy.

NaughtiusMaximus

Nifer wrote: »

She is not the sort of person I would befriend being that she occasionally likes to sit smoking weed on her front doorstep while her young kid runs around, telling her she is ‘doing her f#!%ing head in’

...which is exactly what I was getting at in my post yesterday about this being a warning sign of a potential problem neighbour.

Can I assume that all of those who think it's snobbish to put off by a clothes line in the front garden would be perfectly happy to live next door to this family?

AdrianC

NaughtiusMaximus wrote: »

Can I assume that all of those who think it's snobbish to put off by a clothes line in the front garden would be perfectly happy to live next door to this family?

I have absolutely no idea what they'd be like to live next door to, because all I know about them is a totally irrelevant detail about their laundry arrangements.