Should you ever just say, "that's it, lets just buy the next house that is ok" after seeing 30 or more?

[LizziePizzie]

We had an offer on our house about 2 months ago and can't find anything that we both like. Its either got too few bedrooms, garden is too small, no parking, not great neighbourhood, etc etc and we go back on rightmove and keep looking. I don't hink our buyers are going anywhere but I am getting very frustrated that there is NOTHING we both agree on that fits 100% of our criteria.

We saw the perfect house at the weekend and if it weren't for the fact it was right on a main road, we would have put in an offer.

How picky should we be? How unreasonable are we being? Will we regret buying something if it is only 90% our dream home? Should we hold out for the perfect house? What are your deal breakers for buying a house?

Ted We have thought about it. I think in that scenario you go round cold-headedly making very cheeky offers on the not-quite-right houses, and see who bites. You're not going to be broken-hearted at getting turned down/outbid, and if it works you've made yourself another "pro" for that house IYSWIM. It's not perfect but at least it was a bargain.

Thanks Minipie and MadBusLady. I think what we are going to do is wait until end of September when all the new properties that the estate agents keep promising have materialised, and then if none of those grab us, we'll go back through the list of rejects and start making low offers. It would be great if we could exploit our chain free, cash in the bank status, as we've always fallen in love and overpaid in the past.