AIBU to buy a house with terrible parking?

[Seaandsand83]

We currently live in a 2 bed terraced and have found a fantastic 4 bed semi with big beautiful rooms, well within our price range. We'd have enough money to build an extension on the back for a really spacious Kitchen diner. However, the parking situation is terrible. There is only parking on one side of the road and it is always full. There are a few spaces about a 1 or 2 min walk way, round the corner. I know that doesn't sound far but if I have done a food shop it would mean a few trips back and forth

We are in a position to put an offer on but AIBU to buy a house which is perfect for us but with such bad parking?

We did it.

We appreciate that we wouldn’t have afforded this house if it had better parking.

My food for thought is the irony that we have space for guests but nowhere to park!

I purchased my dream hse but had only 1 parking space but I cld Park top of Rd. No bother I thought, but I hve just sold my hse as the parking situation is doing my head in. I hate it! Also visitors hve to park top of Rd it's such an inconvenience. It will bother you when the novelty of ur hse wears off. My advice don't buy hse.

Hard though it is, these kind of houses are affordable for a reason.You know the reason and there’s a good chance once you’ve settled in and the novelty has worn off you would start to regret your decision.Also you may eventually want to sell and the lack of parking would affect the value and desirability of the property.Frustrating I know but hang on in there a bit longer and a better buy( though maybe not as big) will come along

Sounds like a great find. We moved two years ago, my wife (she doesn’t drive) found all these lovely, spacious Victorian or Edwardian houses all within budget and all lovely inside with ultra modern interiors whilst still maintaining original features,

However absolutely no parking and most on busy roads or packed side roads

No parking is a huge no no for me but that’s the issue with older property

Such negativity. You might find the parking inconvenient but once you’re in and have closed your door you’ll be glad you went for a house you
Love. Go for it xx

It will grind you down, parking here is a bit hit and miss, then new people move it and you have to "train" them 🙄. I would ask the neighbours, your not going to get an honest answer off the vender.

No. I would definitely say don’t buy it.
You would only regret it.
Remember that there is always another house that will come up.

So @Seaandsand83. Think you said you were going to look at it again .....

Ive never lived anywhere with easy parking. Get your food delivered and stop being so car dependent. Besides 1 or 2 mins walk is nothing.

100% I wouldn't buy it unless you could add a drive or garage at the back? Imagine it peeing it down and you having to walk back and forth with the shopping....or could you not park up outside unload the bags and then go park?

could you not buy the house and convert it into a garage instead or something instead of a kitchen? or add a small driveway to it so you can park on your boundry and have a smaller kitchen? or have the front garden dug up and paved if it has one so you can park on the front of your house and have a kitchen also not sure if that would be too expensive but an idea so you could have the best of both worlds

I’d buy it if it was my forever home but if I knew I was going to sell one day then absolutely not.

Parking is very hard where I live and for most of the immediate area. We all cope somehow.

It does annoy me some days but I live in a spacious five bedroom house 5 minutes walk from the railway station and the city centre. If I wanted all that with parking I’d Have to add 300k onto the budget. It’s a compromise.

DD lived in a house with no parking and it really was a pain.

Just dont

Don't do it , I personally would never buy a house without a drive.

We currently rent and I'm not sure if I would buy this house if we had the money as parking here can be a nightmare as we are next to a school. If you need to put shopping in your house then you could park in the middle of the road with hazards on to get your shopping in then move your car.

Have lived without my own parking. Hated it. Find neighbours use of traffic cones infuriating but try to get council to do something- no chance. Own drive is a priority imo

I wouldn't do it. I used to live in a road with 20 houses with only parking on one side. There was a public car park opposite owned by the council but you had to pay to park day or night and it wasn't cheap, so you'd drive around for ages to find a space or have to pay £10 a day in the car park. Disabled people got free parking in the car park but instead 5 people got disabled bays drawn outside their houses (some because they had genuine disabilities, others because they were depressed, I know this is a disability but do you really need a parking space because of it?) the council marked these off outside their houses not leaving space for a car in between, you could fit a motorcycle there at most so we ended up having nowhere to park. It was the bane of my life, so frustrating. You'd be amazed how resentful it can make you.

I bought a house with a garage and a private car park after that. Best. Thing. Ever.

It comes down to what you want most. Your dream house or to be able to park you car right outside?
We had this exact thing 6 years ago. For our budget we could afford a bog standard 3 bed semi with a drive in our area. Viewed loads and found them depressing.
I then saw a 5 bedroom Georgian town house with a wine cellar and secluded south facing back garden surrounded by Bramley apple trees. I did worry about the fact it was in a conservation area so no parking along the road at all but the village pub is just 1 minute walk away and it has a large carpark to the side that can be used by anyone. Yes sometimes when its pissing it down with rain and iv got bags of shopping its a right pain in the arse but when i sit in my garden in the summer not overlooked by anyone else i know i made the right choice.
Like i said its what you want more. Your dream house or your car outside your front window

Have you asked the agents what the sellers do ?
Is one of the spaces taken actually the sellers car and the others are peoples car outside their house on the street.

To he honest it would annoy me if I had to lug my shopping in from around the corner and if I had young children getting them into the car every morning around the corner again would annoy me.

When we were buying we seen a house that had more space to extend but the parking was awkward in the street, so we left it.

Now the house we own has a house next door with more space to extend than ours but the parking is awful. The owner was constantly out moaning at others parking, our drive fits 3 cars but she would come out and moan if we had more visitors. Too much hassle I think.

Thousands of people manage to 'lug their shopping' with kids. I'm amazed at all the negativity. Its such a small thing to forgo for a lifetime living in a lovely home.

No way. I couldn’t just close my door and sit in my home not thinking about it. I’d be sitting there worried who was going to be trying to squeeze in behind me on the pavement and knock my car for the 3rd time in a month. When a space because free people would run out at 10pm and race each other to move their cars so that there wasn’t a long walk in the morning. It was the first road from the station that didn’t have permit only or restrictions so it was never ever empty. Annoying as when we bought it there was a residents car park that was later sold!

Carrying the children back, carrying the shopping, nipping back to get something (if you’d forgotten your purse or whatever), my mum is disabled and she couldn’t visit as it was back to back cars so the blue badge meant nothing and she couldn’t walk from the main road.

I think it depends on whether the parking situation is you can pull over for 2-3 mins to chuck shopping through your front door, and whether kids are old enough to go into the house themselves for 5 minutes and park, or whether it's literally you can't even stop for a couple of minutes.

If it is the former I'd consider it.

Also think about yours and dh personality, are you quite chilled, stoical people who just get on with it or are you more highly strung, angsty types? I'm the latter so I know I wouldn't be able to tolerate this,nut other people roll with the punches more than I do.

What would you have to do to get a driveway/hardstanding put in? Don’t know if you need planning permission for that and/or council permission to lower the curb. I’m assuming that a 4 bed house is big enough to have front garden you could use?