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What are your turn-offs when it comes to buying a house?
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These are absolute deal breakers for me
Leasehold
Any kind of fees or service charges to pay
Non -absolute title
Structural changes without building control sign off
On main road or noisy area
Countryside
Less than 5 miles from the closest river or lake or sea
Artex and asbestos
L shaped
Listed building
Conservation area
Conservatory
Elevated garden, maybe sloping towards the kitchen
Ceilings lower than 2.5m
Manhole covers in the garden
Remote heating or anything that makes you dependant on something not in your control
House at a crossroad
Southfacing (horribly hot)
Single glazed windows
Bespoke stuff (only off the shelf for me)
Huge chimney breasts
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New builds
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Or not buried.Skiddaw1 said:1 -
no helicopter pad or swimming pool1
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A toilet coming directly off a room. I’ve seen the toilet door in a kitchen and in another house a living room. Absolutely no way.2
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Houses with front doors which open straight onto the street without a path or garden. People have to walk directly past your window.
Houses with a bus stop directly outside.
New build houses with rooms like postage stamps and thin walls.
Houses which have the ludicrous craze of having a 'Media Wall'. Why? I know someone who has just bought a new build with just a lounge and kitchen downstairs and the stairs going off the lounge. Already tiny and they have gone to great pains to get a bespoke media wall which takes lots off the room and the result is that you can just about walk between the media wall and the couch which is the only piece of furniture they can get in the room.
On the plus side- there is a lovely (ridiculous) blue light behind the tv so who needs room to walk!0 -
Houses with front doors which open straight onto the street without a path or garden. People have to walk directly past your window.
Houses with a bus stop directly outside.
New build houses with rooms like postage stamps and thin walls.
Houses which have the ludicrous craze of having a 'Media Wall'. Why? I know someone who has just bought a new build with just a lounge and kitchen downstairs and the stairs going off the lounge. Already tiny and they have gone to great pains to get a bespoke media wall which takes lots off the room and the result is that you can just about walk between the media wall and the couch which is the only piece of furniture they can get in the room.
On the plus side- there is a lovely (ridiculous) blue light behind the tv so who needs room to walk!0 -
I forgot the loo at the entrance, that is so common in new builds0
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The estate agent. If they start the BS talk, I honestly just walk away.2006 LBM £28,000+ in debt.
2021 mortgage and debt free, working part time and living the dream0 -
Wrong location. Terrible room layout. No garden to speak of. Overpriced. Vendors being present and watching you like a hawk.0
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