Would a camper home parked on the street put you off a house?

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There’s a motor/camper home that occasionally parks on my road, I’m not sure if they know the neighbours but it always parks in the same spot. I’ve seen the police have a word with them (guessing a neighbour called?) and it didn’t move so that’s that I guess.

My house is going on the market this week and I’m worried this will put people off?

Depends if it’s shabby or if it’s a nice well maintained one. If well maintained and clean then no.

No. . What on earth? Is there a part of this missing?

illegal in my neighborhood beyond 24hrs.
24 homes on our street and occasionally people visit and the neighbors will often get a heads up.
i would 100% not tolerate this.
but it depends on your price point for 2M i don't want a campervan on the street, for 250K i might have to put up with it as well as garbage cans being visible (ya not allowed those in view either except for a 12 hour window on garbage day).

Are you in the UK?

OP it’s perfectly normal in many streets for people to park their camper vans or work vans in their own driveways or on the road.

One wouldn’t bother me. Five in a row I’d start to have questions about whether it was a van life community and are there any issues with rubbish. But one I wouldn’t question it, would just assume a neighbour owned it.

Yes.

No it wouldn’t bother me at all.

What? Why would it put someone off?

I once didn't buy a house because the house opposite had someone living permanently in a caravan on the front drive, but an empty campervan on the highway wouldn't bother me at all.

I did find it annoying when I lived in a terrace with no front garden and a high-sided van was often right outside the window, but it was only due to light impact, if I had had a decent front garden it wouldn't have mattered.

@LightSwerve why would it put someone off? because it looks trashy and cluttered, blocks the view and take up multiple parking spots. where is the wastewater being discharged?

Presumably it isn't being lived in? In which case there is no waste water.

The OP said it was only there occasionally.

No. I am not Hyacinth Bucket.

That last rule seems terribly odd. Are the bins collected quite late where you are? Here the norm is to put them out the evening before, then the bin men take them early (7am ish), and people collect them up and put them away some time in the evening. So for about 24 hours one is playing ‘bin slalom’ on the pavements! Having to get up early to put them out that morning, and then potentially come home early from work in order to put them away no more than 12 hours after taking them out, would be dreadfully annoying! Is the 12 hour thing an actual Council rule in your Borough?

No, there are good people who, unfortunately, cannot buy a home, who are staying with a neighbour due to visiting or neighbours who are airing their camper.

Graffiti, abandoned old cars and bags of rubbish, unruly yards and hard rubbish on the nature strip would put me off.

Street parking, general tidiness, and how the neighbors maintain home exteriors are all going to factor heavily in a home purchase. Camper homes don’t belong in residential neighborhoods except for prep and loading and then unloading and cleanup at the end of a trip. If it is there for more than the occasional 24 hour reset, I would consider it a mark against buying the home.

If it's well kept then no. If it's not being used as a main home then no.

My camper is kept on the road. It’s used as my daily drive. It’s well maintained and clean.

Shrug. I really don’t care what my neighbours think. No different to my neighbours work van.

Is this a serious thread?

I think it is being lived in given the OP said the police had been and had a word with the 'then'

Not at all. Rather that than a penis extension car with no exhaust silencer🤣

Looks trashy ?!

so I can complain if I don't like someone's new front door and windows - the grey is so common ? And as for the gravel rather than a front garden - revolting

Most campers have a waste water tank and are not in the habit of letting soapy water run down the street ( although people who wash their cars every Sunday do so )

Why any one would want to camp by a snob o don't know - but I guess the neighbours are ok

Oh and campervan tends to be quite small - often no bigger than an suv

A motorhome can be much bigger of course

We’ve had a motor home in the past and when visiting our grown up daughter have parked outside her house for 24hrs -I think that’s reasonable. Obviously if it was left there and someone was sleeping in it that would be a problem, but visiting is fine I think 🤔

I'd walk past several times.
If I thought it was being lived in, yes it would put me off.
If it's someone vehicle, that they use to go on holiday, no it wouldn't put me off.

Depends really. If your house/ street has difficult or limited parking then it could put someone off. If you all have big double drives then probably not.

Think OP needs to clarify if this is a camper owned by a neighbour (who is parking it beside their house, as any normal person would - same as they do with their car) or a random 'traveller' type person who does not own a home on the street and who is parking up periodically because they permanently live in a camper and park around the area.

The former is fine, the latter would be off putting as I'm afraid you would have to assume a person living permanently in a camper this way has problems.

Would viewers see it though if it only parks periodically? You're under no obligation to tell prospective buyers about it, and while that might feel slightly immoral, you present a house for sale in its best light and its buyer beware.