If you're looking to buy, what would put you off the most?

[WhoNose88]

Neither buying nor selling for a year or two, but I'm looking around to keep an eye on things and idly curious about what would put other people off.

For me, it would be a garden with no plants (just decking or paving, or that horrible astroturf stuff) or a house with only a shower, no bath (the kids love their baths!).

What are things that would put you off?

No utility room/boot room. Much as I love DDog, I wouldn’t buy a house that didn’t have a room I could pop her in when non dog friendly visitors come over

Being able to hear a noisy motorway
Location being completely dependent on car
Having no pedestrian street life

Ana to me open plan means the kitchen and living areas being adjoined with no doors or even worse the walls knocked out.

I do prefer a kitchen/diner than a separate dining room but like to shut the door on it.

I wouldn't buy from smokers. I wouldn't hate to ask. You can smell it on clothes/furnishings a mile away.

No seller is ever going to say my neighbors an arsehole though are they.

Shared driveways
Bad neighbours
Only one toilet
No driveway

That's a relief MrsDean because we are looking at buying a house with big open plan kitchen/family room plus separate lounge/utility etc and that seemed like a good option but don't want to unwittingly choose house that is difficult to sell!

Scummy neighbours
Alley or space nearby where scummy people could congregate and shag/make noise at all hours
Being near a school-noise and traffic
Single glazing/mouldy etc.
Unsafe garden for dog

made if a seller has disputes with a neighbour, like solicitor letters or council complaints etc they legally have to declare it to a buyer, so yeah, and it would be the decent thing to do. I’m having to put my property up for sale soon because my neighbours are trash and I can’t live like this, but their landlord is removing them so I won’t be telling future viewers that I personally despise my neighbours.

Anything shared (drive/alleys etc) or a garden that the neighbours had a right of way over.

Damp
Lack of public transport connections
No garden (due to DDog)
Garden that looked like it was going to need a great deal of maintenance

Can I ask, assuming they cost the same or similar would six bedrooms actually put people off over four or five, assuming the extension was well-designed. On a semi not a mansion.

If a house had 6 bedrooms I would expect it to have equally large downstairs accommodation, I really dislike top heavy houses.

Well I would be put off by a garden anything like the one of Have now- on a steep hill and terraced with way too much concrete. I hate it.
In fact I hate living on the side of a hill fullstop and my next home (hopefully within 2-3 years) will be somewhere flat!

if a seller has disputes with a neighbour, like solicitor letters or council complaints etc they legally have to declare it to a buyer

Isn't that a ways down the process though - when offers have been accepted and the purchase is grinding its way through the conveyancing? It's not like you have to paint a red cross on your door to alert viewers from the start.

Although FWIW, I declared a previous dispute with a grim as all fuck scabby cow and just said it had been dealt with and the matter was closed. Still had 3 buyers to choose from.

Ana - completely open planned where you are living on top of one another.

Separate open- planned rooms are fine.

Neighbours, like a lot of things, are subjective. The previous owners of our house didn’t get on with the neighbours, and they warned us about them. Turned out the neighbours are lovely; it was our predecessors who were the arseholes.

We are going to be looking soon and the drive and secure garden are the key factors.

Bedrooms of a decent size not shoeboxes.

Decent size kitchen

Structurally sound. I don’t mind having to do a lot of decoration type work

No driveway, no garden, terraced house, lack of cupboards for storage, no downstairs loo.

Just moved from a house that had none of these things to all of them and it's 100x better.

We bought at, ahem, entry level, so we were very much having to look for the potential in houses. But our deal breaker was weird smells. You don't know what's causing them or how long it will take to sort out, and in the meantime you've moved in and now all your clothes smell.

I started off wanting a good garden and off road parking but compromised on both.

Also I'm not being snobby with the terraced house thing. First terraced house next door used to smoke and we could smell a lot it coming through the loft, as well as being really noisy.
Second house not too bad but on one side the woman was an alcoholic who used to have constant fights/loud sex with random men. She sorted it out by the time we moved and turned her life around which is great though.

Stairs into living room
No hallway
Small bedrooms that fit furniture and nothing else
Awkward layout eg walking through bedrooms to get to other bedrooms

Selling with purple bricks.

A trampoline in the back garden next door... it means noisy kids 🚩

After living in this place, lack of built in storage. I need airing cupboards, somewhere to put the mop, Hoover, ironing board and Christmas decorations.

Rooms shoe horned in to make the property more appealing to sellers. Usually utility and en suites, sometimes bedrooms.
Top heavy houses, six bedrooms and bathrooms but only two reception rooms and a tiny garden.