If buying a house, what would make you want to walk straight back out?

[JMSA]

I mean it lighthearted-ish, as we probably wouldn’t be quite so rude! But what is an absolute dealbreaker for you?
For me it would be the presence of a Saniflo/macerator toilet. Evil things.

We bought a stinky house once. Animals had been kept there and it was vile. The Estate Agent said she hated showing it to people. However it had potential… we bought and gutted it. Love it!

i did walk into a smoky house once and … walked out again.

Hoarding. We viewed a house owned by a hoarder and although it was potentially a lovely house, each room was filled to the rafters with boxes and newspapers and magazines. It stunk to high heaven of rot, damp and wee. The house was being sold as seen (the owner had passed away) and just the thought of tackling those mountains of rubbish was enough to put us both completely off the idea. It would have made a nice family house for someone though, 3 bedrooms, medium sized garden and sea views for the upstairs windows.
I still think the people who were selling it should have paid a house clearing company to empty it, and another team to deep clean it, then it would have been snapped up.

Saniflo toilet.
Noisy or student neighbours.
Wheelie bins that live permanently on the pavement.
On a very noisy road.
No loo upstairs.

Dirt and neighbour noise

I once walked out of a house viewing after only one room because it stank so badly of cigarettes. It was two parents plus two adult children living there so I think they maybe all smoked. i just felt like it would be steeped into the walls and carpet

Poor DIY.

Smell.

A bad smell.

Bouncy floors

That very pale, 2000s, cheap laminate flooring in every room. I'd be happy to rip it out, but I'd want to do it straight away because I hate it and couldn't live with it for a second, and it's such a big and expensive job.

A very recently fitted high gloss, modern kitchen, with marble worktops and built in spotlights at kickboard level. Because I HATE them, but couldn't rip out an almost new kitchen, and the owners would want to recoup their costs so would be expecting more for the house because of the kitchen, but id hate it every day!

Unless its been listed by the agent as a doer upper with matching pictures (which i have no issue with, my house needed work but it was made know from the outset), walking up to the front of the house to find it in a poor state (ie, front fence is rotten through and hanging on my a single nail/rubbish that hasn't been cleared etc that could easily be rectified by a couple of cheap panels from b&q and an hour to tidy the front), i wouldn't even go throigh the front door. It instantly makes me think, if they cant spend half a day and less than a £100 to present the house they want to sell, what else have they been neglecting.

Cigarette smoke
Anti social neighbours
Damp
Lack of natural light

Noel Edmonds

Oh and I’d never buy a house with astro turf. I know it can be removed but I just hate it. When I’m queen of the world (any day now) I shall ban it.

No bath

Smell - cigarettes, cats, damp, scented things

and yes I was rude enough to walk straight out once

My neighbour's house has just sold and it absolutely reeks of cigarettes, weed and grease. So much so that if they open the front door, we can smell it. I am interested to see Who has bought it because I wouldn't have been able to look around it, let alone buy it

Low ceilings
Poky rooms
Tiny/not enough windows
No outdoor space
Up a really steep hill
No shops within a five minute walk
Mouldy walls
Evidence of vermin
Very obviously hostile, criminal, prejudiced and noisy neighbours

Any bad smell, eg: cigarettes, wet dog, damp, food smells.

The smell of damp. MIL never ventilates her house and it smells damp. PIL looked after our DDs on the occasional afternoon before they started school and they always came back smelling of damp. Everything that comes out of the house smells damp. I have warned DH that if she ever decides to move, selling it is going to be an issue.

We once walked out of a house viewing because next door had a big dog that barked the whole time we were there. Fuck living next door to that.

Kitchen island. I hate them.

Terraced garden. I am dyspraxic so they are lethal to me.

Smell of fags.

Hot tub, although can they be moved?

Only things that I couldn’t change, like hideous neighbours or it definitely needed an extension but no chance of planning.
Nothing much else puts me off, I’ve bought some total shit pits 🤣🤣 Got some great bargains though. If you can (literally at times) hold your nose, it’s often worth it.

A massive barking dog in the neighbour’s garden.

We sat in the parking bays for hours when we bought our current house. We’d had a year of peace following the year from hell with a violent, druggy neighbour (who was fine til he lost his job). We wanted to be 100%.

So many nods on this thread-stinking of cigarettes would be a hard no (my mum’s place stinks, apparently several of her friends now refuse to visit), derelict cars-we saw a property recently which looked great until we visited the street-broken down vehicles, house next door in a state. No thanks.

Damp on the ceilings/walls/roof needing replacing unless the price was really good. Chicken farm nearby, once a month there’d be a lot of noise.

Minging beds and filthy rugs