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

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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.

Chip fat smell 🤣

North facing garden
I wouldn't even view

Astro Turf in back garden.
No place to eat in the kitchen.

Not as nasty as previous posts but its true!

The 60s kitchen. Unless I had the budget to completely rip it off before moving in.

Lots of the above but also fully ceramic tiled ground floor. Ugly and an expensive pain to change.

The neighbours.
Once went to have a quick drive by look at one I'd seen online that looked promising before booking in for a proper look round. Glad I did as next door was an absolute shit hole. They were detached, but the front "garden" was filled with rusting old cars, household rubbish, and the garage was open where two men were banging around with the music cranked up. Immediate no. Such a shame as the area was lovely, but I can't imagine how they ever shifted that house.
Also, lack of parking. Even with a driveway, crammed streets and people parked over dropped kerbs are a no for me. I'm not doing parking wars and inching through badly parked cars every day.

I viewed a property once which had a condom hanging up on a nail by the bed. No word of a lie. Handy for reuse?!

Any signs of damp or mould.

A massive hole opened up in the car park with some poor guy's mini sticking out of it at a 45 degree angle.

(Ongoing Cornish incident, IYKYK)

Astro Turf in back garden.

Yes they look like badly fitted green carpets....awful stuff

Dog rough neighbours.

I was about to say big England flag next door.

Damp.
Storage heaters
No hallway and front door opening into the shitting room.
No front garden and front door opening into the pavement.
Low ceilings.
No bath in any of the bathrooms, showers only.
A pylon in the garden.
Under a flight path.
Next door to a prison, abbatoir, brothel, massage parlour, pub, restaurant, cafe or takeaway or nightclub.

I moved house in September last year. These are the reasons houses got rejected:
1: Obviously the house of an old person who had passed. A bit run-down, the kitchen had had all the white goods ripped out very unsympathetically and was generally grubby. Looked nice in the estate agent photos, but not good IRL.
2: Wrong part of town, and required turning right onto a busy road every time you wanted to leave the estate. Nice house, just not the one.
3: An almost-new build. Garden was small, mostly on a slope and very overlooked. The main downstairs living space was very dark. Did almost put an offer in though, as location-wise it was perfect.
4: Much darker and smaller than it looked in the photos. Bathroom was downstairs, and as a frequent nighttime wee-er, that was a dead loss. A bit run down.
5: Kitchen was too small.

That's what I wanted to say, but was scared of getting piled on by the definitely-not-racists.

A Subaru on the neighbour's drive or a north-facing garden.

Astro turf. Cigarette smell.

No hallway and front door opening into the shitting room.

Ha ha are you talking about a bathroom or a hallway?!!😆Shitting room, love it!

The most important things are location, neighbours and potential for annoying neighbours (which is why I'm buying a tiny detached bungalow in a road with mature trees and other bungalows which likely contain old, quiet people!). Bit silly to focus on dog smells and things that are easy to sort out.

Also, as someone who'd been stuck in the conveyancing process for over 5 months and is half dead from stress, I would look for a probate sale and try to sell my house first.

Not that unusual in old terraced houses where the bathroom has been added on.

Location and house type. If the location was shit and/or it was an ugly house I would bother going to see it. If I’d liked it enough to view, there isn’t anything that would make me turn around, I may decide it’s not for me, but I wouldn’t abandon the viewing.

Dark wood all over the house , cigarette smell , a bathroom on 2 levels covered with green tiles and fluffy toilet seat and mats.
Wardrobes/ cupboards that go over the bed.
A bar in the lounge.
Garden with no grass and overlooked.
Pet snakes.

Ooo, I didn't think you were permitted to open peoples cupboards when going round with an estate agent

Any kind of strong smell. A garden full of dog shit- and I am a dog lover-

Appalling smell. I once looked at a house where the elderly owner had allowed her cats to use the dining room floor as a litter tray and years of cat urine had soaked into the floor boards. It stank so bad it made my eyes water.

Shared driveway
Concreted over garden
Bad area
No outside space at all
No natural sunlight - an ex boyfriend had a house completely surrounded by conifer trees. It was like being under water and was horribly claustrophobic.