to ask neighbour to pick up dog poop?!

[Lollipop29]

There’s a house that’s come up, viewed a few times, very close to putting in an offer, one problem! we can see next door neighbours garden and there’s dog poo everywhere, all overgrown, just in a gerneral state really. I was going to go introduce myself to the neighbours and say that I might be buying the house, just go get a gerneral impression of how they are and what kind of people they are. AIBU, if I did buy the house, to ask them to pick up their dog poo?

Unless it is some sort of health hazard you can’t tell other people what to do with their property.

Just get a higher fence.

FWIW people who neglect their dog physically, by allowing it to live in its own faeces are likely to neglect his training too. I would say they have a poorly exercised barking dog (or two).

Yes, YWBU. Think hard about how much this would bother you before putting in an offer

You would be very unreasonable. As unpleasant as it is, it's their garden, their dog poo, so none of your business.

i'd say that you now know why the house is up for sale!

If they haven't done once, in this hot weather, for their neighbours who are selling and presumably want the neighbourhood to look nice and so would have asked, I doubt that they would do it as an ongoing favour to you all the time.

How much do you love the house, enough to put with what you see?

I ask because I very strongly suspect you're on a hiding to nothing with that plan. They've let it get like this, so it obviously doesn't bother them. A nice polite new neighbour won't make them change their ways in my opinion. People with gross habits like this tend to be rather stuck in their ways.