Would a neighbours back garden full of rubbish put you off a house?

[getoveritit]

This morning I’ve looked out the window and I’ve seen the neighbours garden now has piles of trash covering it - literal junk.

Now it’s their garden and they can have whatever junk they want in it but I’m worried it’ll stop people from buying my house that goes on the market next week.

Sorry, yes it would

Can you have a polite word and ask them to clean it up??? Personally I would find it off-putting if I was looking at a house purchase

Yeah an untidy neighbours garden would put me off buying.

It might well, sorry. Would probably depend how much else was available in the area.

Unless it was very temporary from, say, building work, then yes it would put me off.

Yes. It attracts rats.

Yes I would be hugely put off. It makes you think you would have nuisance neighbours and possibly a rats problem in the future.

Yes.

Nobody wants to be next door to rat central.

Untidy neighbours would definitely put me off .

How long has it been there? If it is a recent thing they could just be renovating, I would just explain this to the estate agent/ prospective buyers as a temporary state. If it has been there a while you could offer to take some to the recycling centre. Say you are getting ready to sell and you are taking some of your own but happy to add theirs to the trip. Yes it is their responsibility but it might be quicker if you offer to take it.

Yes, not only the mess but I’d be worried that people with messy gardens might be nightmare neighbours in other ways.

Yep, I’d assume a hoarder or antisocial.

We had an elderly man next to us who couldn’t maintain the house and garden. It led to mice, damp, and damage to our soffits/gutters (terraced house, ours was attached to his so his leaking roof and falling-off gutters damaged ours). All improved when he died and it was sold to a couple who did it up.

If it looked like a build up of general rubbish and crap, as opposed to renovation type materials that you might hope are recent, then yes it would put me off.

Yes definitely.

I was interested in a property but the front garden next door was full of rubbish and old vehicles. I remember thinking, Well they might move out so maybe I could risk it. I still drive past the house occasionally and twenty years later there is still rubbish in the garden!

Yep. Rats. Sorry man.

A person on my street is a hoarder m. Garden a shit tip. Neighbours said to the other neighbour there goes £20,000 off the value of your property when you sell. The person is late 50s with a child. She finally sorted thi by s out when the company that owns the freehold got involved

Yes, firstly it's awful to look at and can attract pests

There's a house on my street up for sale, they are unfortunately next door to a property nicknamed Steptoe house by the rest of us. It has been on the market over a year whilst other properties on the street have sold within weeks, price has dropped by close to £15k and it was fully renovated before going on the market yet still no sale.

What are your neighbours like? Is this permanent or temporary? Are you on good terms with them?

But yes as a viewer who knew nothing else about the situation, I'd be put off by this: unless a skip out the front made it clear that this was temporary building work, or you'd told me that the elderly neighbour had only just gone into a care home or whatever.

Yes - this happened in a previous house I lived in, and there were rats. Luckily when the trees grew up you couldn’t see in to the garden. But I was glad to get away and took a lot of time to inspect the neighbouring gardens in my new house.

Yes it would put me off. It would look messy and attract rats. I'd also assume they were antisocial in other ways too.

Yes. Rats and imagine what the inside must be like. A fire risk too. Maybe generally difficult to live next door to?

This is exactly why it would put me off, @getoveritit - sorry.

When I was a student, I ended up renting next to a house with an awful lot of rubbish in the garden, and we did see rats. Luckily we complained to their landlord, and he cleared it up - but I wouldn’t risk buying next to a garden like that.

I would assume they were problematic, yes

It would me - sorry.

Not because I care what the neighbours do but because of the risk of vermin.