If buying a house, what would make you want to walk straight back out?

I don’t understand that logic. Surely the kind of person who keeps on top of house maintenance would also keep their garden tidy?

What are paddle stairs?

The area I currently live in (and hope to be vacating in the next 18 months!) has a few places where there are kids toys strewn across the front gardens - including trampolines - and the general air of dilapidation (boarded up windows and doors) overall is very striking. Makes me feel quite depressed each time I have to pass through them .. but definitely spurs me on to get out of here (moved to support a vulnerable older family member just about the time of the first Covid lockdown).

Asbestos

Had to have a nosey ... Bletchingly always struck me as such a lovely, quaint and salubrious area (used to live nearby some years ago) ... just goes to show that you never know what's behind those front doors!! 😅

Traffic sounds. Woodworm . Only a couple of feet from neighbours. ..some houses are so close together, you can touch the neighbours wall from your window. Give me a but and Ben in a field with no neighbours for half a mile in any direction.

Yes

Houses and neighbours with rusted/rotten cars and boats in their driveways. There is a house which I drive pass on the way back from the supermarket which has a rotten wooden boat on the drive. It’s not lake/sea worthy and gone past repair. What’s the point in keeping this?

Screaming DC or DGC.

Wow

Why is that a problem?

Really interesting reading this thread, we’ve recently had an offer accepted on our first-time bought home, a lot of these I completely agree with!
Our dealbreakers (some of which meant we didn’t even seek a viewing as it was obvious from the listing), in no particular order, were:

• Astro turfed/completely concreted/hard-laid garden.
• Right on a busy main road.
• Like Pp above, ones where the front doors opened almost next to one another with no real separation. We’re not super-unfriendly but that closeness to others feels claustrophobic.
• North-facing garden.
• We saw one house - the sitting room had no windows! It was kind of the middle room in the house (it was a bungalow) and I think the room had been made by partitioning off the back room. The only natural light was from the kitchen door. Really weird and a big nope from us. Hadn’t realised until we viewed it.
• Being awkward to get to from other places - we have a young son and when he’s a bit older I want him to be able to get himself to and from places easily, not having to rely on us to drive him everywhere.
• Dodgy-looking neighbours, e.g. St George flags or property in a studenty area (luckily not really a thing where we were looking but just up the road is a city with 2 universities and also lots of air bnb type accommodation which would also be a big nope! We used to live in the centre of that city and the late night noise from stag/hen parties staying used to get pretty tedious).
• After thinking we wouldnt mind a big doer upper, after checking out a few, we decided that actually we dont really have the money or time to do essential works. Cosmetic work because we want to, ok but having to replace kitchen/bathroom, etc before we could use them we realised just wouldn’t work for us.

Cigarettes/smoking of any kind - and even if I had a waft of smokers as neighbours, it would be a no.

Intolerant of me but I cannot abide it and struggle.

Also, I would absolutely not be able to live within a mile of any food outlets/restaurant/cafe's etc as the very thought of food/fat smells...nooooo.

Dogs I could do! Cats not so much and a litter tray would finish me off! I have to live as remotely as possible

We moved to this town about 45 years ago.
Reasonable house then the lady selling it mentioned that her husband was an undertaker. This spooked me, I envisaged having nightmares sleeping in an undertaker’s bedroom.(apologies to any undertakers on here) or worse digging up the odd femur in the garden
Then the owner’s large bouncy dog jumped at DS2, who was 6 and knocked him over. We didn’t buy the house.

Some crazy people out there for sure 😂.

Mine would be walking away from front doors being centimeters apart with no way of putting up a division.

Lived next door to a very nosy neighbour, where I had to time my comings and goings to avoid being pounced on by the door.
Never again!

Glossy floor tiles. looks like a Hotel reception
Stainless steel units in the kitchen, looks like a morgue...

The weirdest part is them encouraging us to carry on having a look! Honestly could not believe it.

Yours is even worse!

Open plan kitchen
Smelly - cigarettes, weed, mould, pets
Wooden panelling everywhere
Bedroom off another bedroom
Postage stamp gardeen/ all gravel or concrete garden
Noisy neighbours
Flags everywhere in the neighbourhood

Also dodgy looking extensions on neighbouring property encroaching on the property of interest

one yesterday - bungalow with massive side extension dormer and another property where you’d have to drive across a neighbouring property to access your driveway

St George’s flags and union jacks all over the lamp posts.

I walked out of a viewing after a few minutes as the smell of dog was simply overwhelming- we fed it back to the estate agent too as it was truly stifling

Blimey, we would never be able to sell our house looking at some of the replies on this thread!

We live in a Victorian terrace. Front door opens straight onto living room. Downstairs bathroom, no upstairs loo. Stairs to loft room from spare bedroom so reconfiguring and associated permissions needed if you wanted to make 3 separate bedrooms.conforming to current Building Regs.

We've got the original Victorian roof, oh and we've got Astroturf in the back garden. We back onto the railway and had 3 lots of new turf which was ruined by the crap coming off the railway before we bit the bullet and got it replaced.

We're on a main road through our village so permit street parking. Our permit does allow us to park in the car park in our road though.

So all in all a no-buyer for a lot of people, but we do have lovely neighbours in a friendly village with a train station giving us direct access to London/South Coast in about an hour, good local shops and a couple of restaurants and the size of the house suits us. Just had the house repainted and a new bathroom.

As someone who suffers crippling migraines what an odd thing to judge people for.

Oh gosh, I walked into a bathroom to find a woman in the bath, boobs above water and said hi. Quickly closed the door but was also encouraged to go in, which i refused.
The guy showing me around had already given me weird vibes, so not sure why i even went upstairs.

If thats in the UK then thats not legal so I would worry how bodged everything is.

Lots of people use to think you cant have bathrooms opening onto kitchens (2 door rules where spouted often, even by some builders) which isn't true but it does have to be sealed with at least 1 door (so 2 separate rooms) and have its own dedicated hand washing area.