Would this put you off buying a house? (And what can I do about it)

[Cucucachu]

We are trying to sell our house. I think it has a lot going for it, we’ve worked really hard on it and it’s marketed as “immaculately presented”. There’s new extension, new boiler, new bathroom, new kitchen, in a desirable location. End of terrace.

Our neighbour is nice enough but smokes weed pretty constantly. Its stinks. He smokes mostly on his terrace behind so if any of the back windows are open, or being in the garden/on the street you can smell it a lot of the time.

if you came to a viewing and the neighbour was obviously smoking weed would it put you off in this case?

and WIBU for us to give him a heads up about when viewings are , maybe ask if he would mind not smoking it outside during that time?

he is generally very nice and we have no issues apart from this - I don’t want to piss him off by insinuating he stinks and might hold us back selling our house

That indicates she needs to sell to a pot head, which kind of narrows her market. She’s not asking if a fellow pot head would buy it.

I think the reason I even ask is because I’m so heartbroken about selling anyway, even though I know it’s the right thing for us.

and we’ve got used to it so I wanted an opinion on how it looks - I don’t know whether I just worry about it because I know.

like when you are looking for something you see it more if you see what I mean? And maybe it’s just that I’m hyper aware so I’m worried about it

YABVU to hide it. I'd be furious if i bought a house and the seller knew this. Sort the neighbours out then sell.

Yeah it would put me off but you might get lucky and the buyer might smoke weed and be like oooh yes I'm in luck

If you could tell me exactly how I’m supposed to “sort them out” that would be most helpful

She can't really sort them out! They aren't a pest control issue!

With weed smoking neighbours it would definitely put me off. I did lose my rag once when the entire house stank and daughter's uniform was drying on the line.

Visitors say you can smell it out the front too, but maybe I've just become immune to that.

Yes would put me off it’s the smell I can’t stand

Ideal scenario 😂😂

I managed to get my neighbours out because they smoked weed, we owned they were council tenants. Ever since I've been careful to check to see if neighbours smoked (even legal smoking)

No you're missing my point - there's plenty of people who don't care about the smell even if they themselves don't partake. My best friend's partner smokes and while I think he stinks, she genuinely isn't bothered by it!

Any chance you could describe it as being in a hipster liberal neighbourhood?

Op pot stinks, I’ve a few mates who do it, and you can smell it immediately, it’s way more acrid than just cigarettes.

on another note,I don’t get the house is special as the kids were born there, I see it a lot on here. My first house didn’t suddenly become special as my child was born there, so I do find it bewildering when folks feel that way, having my child never made my home more special.

Yes it would unfortunately

It would totally put me off.

It would put me off, I just hate the smell. But I think I would have had polite words with him anyway.
My old neighbours used to smoke weed, but indoors so I never noticed it. Some months after I moved I had a call from the agents because my buyer could smell it and she was furious I hadn’t told her…

Of course the irony is that he probably smokes it outside because he doesn't like the smell of it in his own house.

If he's an author/lecturer he sounds reasonably educated, and you seem to think this is the only problem with him. He's not an anti social dickhead in other ways.

I would go round and speak to him about it - tell him that your house frequently smells of his weed and its becoming a real problem. Is it possible that he could smoke INSIDE his own home with the windows closed - or doesn't he like the smell either? Could he perhaps smoke at the bottom of his garden.

Fwiw I think it's a vile smell, and it pisses me off that people seem to smoke it openly like they did cigarettes. It is illegal and the police should be doing something about it. I would not even view your house if I turned up and could smell weed from next door. It makes me feel ill.

I have come to the conclusion I am the only person in the universe who has no idea what weed smells like.

I am old though.

My oldest DC was born in my living room. For me, it adds to the sentiment. Is that such a crime? 🙄

Unfortunately, yes. I wouldn't be judging your neighbour or the area as its everywhere, but it makes me feel really sick so I wouldn't be able to stand it constantly.

The smell of weed wafting in wouldn’t bother me at all OP. Your neighbour sounds lovely. Just ask him not to smoke outside when you’ve got viewings and keep him posted when they are. Even if potential buyers noticed it. Which in unlikely. You’ve got pearl-clutchers United of Mumsnet on this thread.

We had a weed smoker move into the flat below us (many moons ago now) and it turned from smoking (smoke wafting up into our flat) to growing (constant smell, even worse at "harvest time") and then onto people ringing the bells at all times, appearing in our hallway, when some scaffolding was up even appearing g at our windows (5 storeys up!!). There also wound up a lot of random people hanging around outside the doors.

Obviously, it would be slightly less extreme in a terrace than a block of flats, but knowing how it progressed there, I wouldn't ever want to live next to it. And everytime we've moved to a new place, anywhere we were considering I went back at random times and wandered around to see what the feel was like, check the parking, see who was about etc. So even if you got him not to, people will find out.

Might be better to just be up front with people. He smokes, for the last x years we've lived next to him it's been going on, but nothing else untoward has ever happened and he's am excellent neighbour otherwise.

It would 100% put me off.

I was born in my mum's bedroom 51 years ago but I don't think the house held any special attachment to her. Probably an individual thing but that's not really your issue here.