What puts you off buying a house?

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Other than structural things or location- which can't be changed, what are the seemingly little things that would put you off buying a house?
For me, seeing tumble dryer or vacuum in a random room screams not enough space/ storage. As well as loads of bathroom clutter.

AIBU to dismiss houses based on things like this?

Looking to sell soon so looking to avoid those mistakes!

Not enough plug sockets! We’re just about to move into our second house and it was a mistake we made in our current house. When we were looking now, if the property didn’t have a tonne of sockets then it was out of the running!

Bins stored out the front. Clutter and mess in neighbouring gardens. Dodgy parking.

Shiny floors.

Messy garden
Clutter anywhere
Fitted wardrobes
Signs of a smoker
Picture rails

Paved over garden. No garage. Main bathroom downstairs. Also agree tumble driers and even washing machines in odd places. Also tiny kitchens.

The smell of cigarette smoke. Or any indication of smoking in the past.

My main things are area, parking, wifi and neighbours!

After that it’s storage, storage storage! I hate not having enough cupboards to hide the rubbish we seem to accumulate

Plastic / upvc windows
Divan beds
Pelmets on windows

Oh yes, fitted wardrobes, fitted fridge, fitted deep freeze, fitted washing machine, fitted dishwasher. Hope Covid will makes these things less common.

People having not tidied up before the viewings- I always think if they’ve cut corners with the tidying what else have they not bothered doing to it! The neighbours not mowing their lawns- not something that can be helped but it puts me off if the neighbours let their gardens get messy.
Lots of stuff out on the sides in the kitchen, shows not a lot of kitchen space.

The streets where I live are terraced houses. Busy suburb of a large University city.
Little kitchens, no off road parking, small gardens but they sell within a week and are much sought after

Main thing IS location (and parking, and neighbours..).

Depends how the market is and what I am looking for. You can't be as choosy when there are 20 similar houses on the market or just 1.

A newly redecorated house with shiny new paint etc. worries me: what are they hiding! Even if I am not going for a project, I prefer somewhere that hasn't been touched in a little while, so no horrible surprise hiding.

Open plan "living"
No separate toilet
Kitchen extension with skylights or rooflight
pond
"fake" room - don't tell me it's a bedroom or a dining room when it's clearly just a big cupboard, I am not blind.

Dirt, smell, mess, carpets, lack of storage
Not fan of en-suite either.

@spanielsarepainless Why would covid make fitted appliances less common? I'm puzzled.

I don't have any fitted appliances so not really my thing.

Agree with you completely on smoking though.

Plastic windows, ugly boilers, lack of parking, room sizes, light.

The neighbours doing something antisocial during the viewing - smoking outside, yelling unreasonably at a crowd of children on a trampoline in their garden, loud music. Anything that would make me not want to live next door to them.

I don't want to be using appliances where someone else has had their sticky fingers. Irrational perhaps but no one said the reasons had to be reasonable. And fitted kitchen equipment is frequently poor quality and impossible to replace.

Ridiculous ideas but costly to put right.

A free standing bath in the bedroom for example.

Weird sofa arrangements eg. When there’s a line of too many sofas in a narrow living room.

A third bedroom that only fits a cot and not a bed. It isn’t a 3 bed of you can’t fit a bed in!!

Paved over garden

Fake grass

No off road parking

@Spanielsarepainless

Oh yes, fitted wardrobes, fitted fridge, fitted deep freeze, fitted washing machine, fitted dishwasher. Hope Covid will makes these things less common.

Also intrigued to know why Covid would make these less common. I am definitely missing something. Also is it because of the cost of replacing that puts you off 'fitted' appliances? We have a few but all modern - as well as a huge fitted wardrobe... ( agree old outdated is vile) but now dying to know if people will think our house is hideous!

Lots I agree with
Smell- smoke or dogs
Crazy parking
Loud neighbours
Muddles
Tidy rooms
Bathroom downstairs.

Thank goodness we don't have any of these issues and we have more plugs than you could possibly need!

Downstairs (only) bathroom.

I honestly don’t care about presentation at all. Location, the fabric of the building sound and off road parking are my concerns. Everything else I can fix.

Everything can be changed inside so long as it's not had too much altered already.
I wouldn't buy a house with any shared access or drive. Nothing near a railway line or busy road. Nothing with cladding of any description or too close to a river or the sea.

Bathrooms with no windows.
Paved back gardens.
Paved front gardens
Fireplaces ripped out.
Shiny modern kitchens.
Mad shit like coloured LED lights in skirting.
“Builder’s pox” spotlights everywhere.
Fitted bedroom furniture.
Hard-edged bathrooms tiled floor to ceiling in mottled beige or grey “dirty before it’s dirty” tiles but so expensively done you can’t justify ripping it out.
Kitchens with curved end cupboards.

Wallpaper - ghastly stuff hides so many things. Agree with appliances in the wrong rooms. Badly maintains outdoor space and sheds - screams to me that you will dump all your rubbish when you leave, for me to get rid off. Low fences - I don’t want to see your neighbours.
Things you can’t change - but would put me off - lack of car parking, and front doors straight into living rooms, anything shared with a neighbour.

some of these things about rubbish presentation might make me thing - great, the fussy people won't look at this house so I have more chance of having my offer accepted.

As long as the location & structure are sound & there is a garden, then that is good.