Thing that puts you off straightaway looking at a house?

[hugoagogo]

For me it's open plan type kitchen and living rooms. Like a bedsit!?

Main road
No garden
No garage
Only one bathroom

I get suspicious the moment I get a whiff of coffee or fresh bread; I automatically assume they’ve got aspirational ideas from home and living magazine and executed them using ‘DIY on a budget’ 🙈

No 'kerb appeal' - if they can't look after the outside, there's not much hope for the inside.

Rooms knocked through - makes you wonder if Planning Regs have been adhered to.

Only one loo.

A semi extended right up to the Building Line. so no access around to the back.

No garden, just paving stones.

Going through any other room to get to the kitchen.

No kerb appeal
No parking
Shared access of any kind

Front door that opens directly into the living room with no hallway. Main road. No parking. Downstairs bathroom.

Barking dog nearby, condition of houses/gardens on either side, being overlooked in garden.

Nowhere to park. Definite NO even if it ticked all the other boxes.

Road noise, windows that need replacing, a kitchen or main bathroom that's tiny with no scope to improve/extend.

No/very small garden, no parking, downstairs bathroom (as the only bathroom), everything open plan, I don't mind a separate kitchen and open dining living or open kitchen dining separate living room but when the downstairs of a house has no internal walls, just not my cup of tea.

Open plan kitchen/living room, no parking, ugly house.

Oh and being overlooked. Definitely need to be able to sit on a sofa without anyone being able to see me!

Open plan. I want rooms with doors on.
Grey flooring
Grey kitchen
black windows
garden orientation
leylandii in neighbouring gardens

Busy road, no off street parking, no garage, small kitchen, not enough toilets.

Oh pebbledash!

My expectations in London would vary vastly to a property outside of London.

For London - the street, the garden size.

Outside of London - off-street parking, the street, potential to extend.

Downstairs only bathroom was my only no - go when looking at small, 'affordable' houses in London.
And signs of rodents.

My budget will always be small enough that any house will have things I don't like. However, I'd exclude anything with an open plan living room and kitchen and I'd take some persuading to have another house where my living room was next to the neighbours stairs.

Corner plots where the garden is on the street side with no privacy.

Front doors that open into the living room.

Next time I will also avoid anything where neighbours have tall trees in their gardens right by the fence...

Stairs that go up from a room not from a hall.
And houses where the "last" bedroom - eg 3rd in a 3 bed house, is tiny.

Leylandii hedges next door, the potential of not being kept at a sensible height and shared driveways/ awkward parking. Each potential neighbour disputes.

• no parking
• thin walls/screaming children next door
• next to a pub
• busy road outside
• generally noisy neighbourhood
• early morning deliveries next door (a friend’s flat was next door to a waitrose and they deliver around 5am!)

We briefly rented for a few months whilst work was carried out on the house we'd bought.
It was open plan and I absolutely hated it.

Things that would put me off:
No garage
Small gardens
Living close to main roads or railway.
Low ceilings

• bathroom off kitchen- yuck!
• bedroom off a another bedroom
• the only bathroom off a bedroom

…in truth I have never owned a home and would actually be honoured/grateful/delighted to do so

From just the listing - garden with low walls/fence and so no privacy; open plan living/kitchen; permit parking

On the viewing - obvious damp; poor decoration (if they've been living with chipped flooring, broken radiators, badly painted rooms etc then what more important things haven't they maintained) ditto dirty houses...if they haven't cleaned for the viewings then I assume they don't take care of the house in general.