Viewing a house, next door neighbours garden a tip

[Bunnyxo]

Currently looking at houses as hoping to buy soon

I went to view one in an area i love however the neighbours front garden (there’s no divide between the gardens in this street) is a mess with kids toys

I’ve noticed this house before as you can see it from the main road and have always thought what a mess 🙈

Am I being pedantic?

All the signs are to avoid.

This is exactly what lost us our sale ☹️

It was a nightmare to live next to - hence us trying to move!

No. They’re probably lazy and slovenly in other ways. If they even bothered t teach kids to put their stuff away I can only imagine the rest of the behaviours.

Definitely not being pedantic. I’ve been put off several houses by the state of the neighbour’s house. It’s a perfectly rational consideration when choosing where to live. I also look for points where there might be disputes - I’d never buy anywhere with a shared driveway or path, for example, or where I’d need access to the neighbour’s property to carry out work on my own.

Sorry I missed this bit, definitely no from me then especially with open plan front.

Are these toys just left out after being played with? Or is it pikes of broken and abandoned ones?

This is the front garden? Lots of houses have "open plan" front gardens, but you can get round it by careful planting of very prickly shrubs. Check the actual rules.

If this is an unfenced back garden and you are not allowed to fence it in , walk away!

friend bought a house where the back garden had to be reached via a path through the neighbours back garden, an overgrown jungle of weeds.

That neighbour moved after a couple of years. current neighbours have been there 6/7 years, their garden looks picturesque, possibly a bit overmanicured, could be a shot from a gardening magazine.

And they helped with her garden one year when she was in and out of hospital.

If it’s bothering you now then imagine how you’ll feel everyday if it’s your home!

Would you have any scope to put up a high, attractive divide? That is the o ly way I’d consider it but I’d still be concerned about wider issues.

I would not buy it and I am speaking from a personal past experience. We bought a place without really thinking much about the state of the next door neighbour’s garden (because our house was perfect and we fell in love with it) and now live next to a tip. We are talking fridge in the garden, scrap metal. The messiness spills out onto the road, empty coke cans and abandoned vehicles outside ours. No!!!

It comes down to this - do you love the house more than you hate the thought of living next door to that garden?

If yes, it’s not necessarily something to give up your dream home over. Someone else’s garden is something you can’t change, so there’s no point in stressing over it - if you love the house that much, it won’t matter, and you can’t do anything about it anyway.

On the other hand, if you just want a nice house, any nice house, on a smart road, you need to apply the same logic - “Someone else’s garden is something you can’t change“ - from the opposite perspective. No matter how nice you make your own house, you can’t control external factors. That’s why property experts advise you to buy the worst house on the best street rather than vice versa.

I don’t get the impression from your posts that this would be the dream house if only it wasn’t for next door. On that basis, I’d keep looking.

Front garden?

front garden that runs along a path/road?

privacy😂😂

I wouldn’t buy it. And it may be controversial but I’d be put off by trampolines and obvious signs of hot tub/tiki bars in any of the next door neighbours gardens too!

Wouldn't touch it.
Driving by at all different times, especially the weekend should give you an idea what they are like.
As is knocking on the door of nearby neighbours to ask have they noticed them be noisy.
How many children are there?
Small house with 3 or 4 children will be very noisy.
I rented years ago next to a house like this.
The people were lovely but such a racket they made in and out of the garden.

When we were looking, I peered over next doors fence and saw a hot tub. I didn't put an offer in.

I did buy a house where next door was a state!! Estate agent said they were doing building works. Nothing changed in the two years I owned the house. They were just lazy creatures, spent more time playing the fucking drums in a Terraced house. I did make 25k on the house and can laugh about it now.
I wouldn’t buy this house and next door will just annoy you daily.

If you do go ahead, you have to accept you have zero control or influence over how your neighbours have their gardens...

Personally, it really brought me down living next door to an awful building site of a back garden for 2 years. It really depressed me every time I had to see it while washing up...

We had this type of person move next door, it won't be just kids toys driving you mad! We ended up with them in our garden too as there was also no divide between our gardens. We ended up having to pay for fencing to be erected, higher fences at the back etc they were neighbours from hell, we ended up looking to move from our dream home because of them, thankfully they moved instead and became someone else's problem

I would feel the same!

As with a garden bar 😂

I’d avoid. The only time I may consider an overgrown garden is if I knew the owners were elderly and unable to care for it. However, unkempt family home, no!

Don’t touch with a bargepole. They will be nightmare neighbours.

My former home that I rent out has horrid neighbours. They aren’t noisy but treat their dogs appallingly and their garden is an overgrown dogshit rat fest. I rent it out as I moved away but I know they will impact the sale price when I come to sell up.

It was a lovely place to live otherwise but it would definitely put me off a future purchase.

Back garden obviously -duh, hedge or fence front garden.

Avoid

OP - this is all you need to know really.

I would go and have a look, but it would be really off-putting for me too.

I wouldn't move next to so,some who I was concerned I'd have issues with in advance, if you've always thought the place looks scruffy, it's going to remain that way