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!?

No off street parking
Busy main road (due to cats)
Only a downstairs bathroom
Paved over garden
Double glazing with anything other than white UPVC
3rd bedroom so small, it’s hard to get any more than a single bed in it
Tiled floors downstairs
See through staircases (don’t know the technical name)
Spiral staircase

We’re looking right now. Our list includes:

Must not be on a main road
No small garden
No staircases that go through the living room - staircase must be in an actual hallway
Decent sized kitchen - big enough to have a breakfast table that fits a family
No toilets / bathrooms attached to a kitchen

Genuinely there was a dead relative in the front room when we went to view. In a coffin I assume. We didn't wait to find out.

Genuinely there was a dead relative in the front room when we went to view. In a coffin I assume. We didn't wait to find out.

If you saw a house that was OK but kitchen really need updating, would you consider it? The price would obviously reflect this so it would just be the inconvenience of living with a kitchen replacement going on for a week or so? So as not to drip feed, it's my house and I'm not sure whether to market as is for a lower price.

Astroturf
No Drive
Open plan
Grey Kitchen units-like the ones in the wren kitchen ad currently on the right 😂I’ve done 2 kitchens so I want to be able to live with the next kitchen for a while & I couldn’t live with grey.

Funnily enough, my house is on the market and we've got a few viewings today.
First thing ds said this morning was he wanted to make cookies... so my house smells like chocolate cookies. Hopefully the viewers don't think it's a ploy 🤣

I think opinions would be very split on this.
it’s hassle redoing a kitchen but if you redo it, unless it’s very neutral, it could be off putting to people.

Downstairs bathroom would put me off. Steep garden/driveway. Long narrow rooms. No garage. Small kitchen.

Conservatory opening straight into the house. May as well just knock a massive hole in the wall and hand your life savings to up the electricity provider.

My house has plenty of the hates on here. It has a kitchen/diner/family room, which I love and where we spend a lot of time. There aren’t cooking smells with an efficient extraction system. The patio doors are often open anyway. We do have another separate living room, which we use daily. We also have bedrooms that all fit a bed in, a drive, garage, south facing garden, a hall bathrooms on both floors.

I don’t think that you can get rid of dog smells, even when the dog(s) are well looked after and that would put me off. The same with smoking smell too. Many things you can change, but you can’t change your neighbours and often, you don’t know what they’re like until it’s too late.

No parking/hard to park/permits
small garden
too overlooked
damp/mould smell

Too open plan.

Crowded.
Bedroom off another bedroom.
No garage.
Small garden.
Overlooked.

I would consider it much more than a house with a new shiny grey, floor to ceiling kitchen which I would want to rip out but it would have been advertised as a plus with the house and seem wasteful and expensive, I'm sure your kitchen would be usable in the short term anyway.

Open plan unless there is also a separate and large living room. I don't want to be in one room all the time.

Strong smells, constant factory hum, busy nearby road, awful neighbours.

Unpleasant Things I can't change, basically.

My house always has so many of other people's "nos" on these lists - no parking, thin walled terrace with noisy neighbours, paved courtyard "garden", overlooked on all sides, front door opens straight onto the living room, open plan kitchen-diner (that's been "knocked through", though definitely meets regulations), small third bedroom, only one bathroom...I love our house though!

My own "nos":

• suburban location; we are walking distance to the city centre which we love, and quiet suburban housing estates make me feel like I've died and gone to Purgatory.
• small kitchen. Ours was a galley kitchen before we had the extension done, but now it's my favourite room in the house, and I won't ever go back to a poky one again.
• houses with no character. Ours is a tiny Victorian terrace, with loads of original features; I'd hate a blank modern box.

I agree with downstairs bathroom if it's the only bathroom though.

@Applegreenb yes I agree, always find that suspicious, or even worse a photo taken at night with the lights on, what’s the point, so you know the house has lights or what! 😂 usually a Google maps street view tells you why.

Shared Drive
Shared party walls
No parking
Small garden
No room to extend
Busy road
Too overlooked at the back

Naff kitchen islands
Writing on the walls
Hot Tubs

There are a lot of quotes for "no bath".
When I had a new bathroom, we wanted a walk-in shower & not a bath (not big enough for both).
I asked my village EA about this, & he said it wasn't a problem. If everything else was right, buyers would know that a new bathroom was relatively cheap to install.

Must be detached, lived 20 years in detached properties, wouldn’t go back.

Shared drives.

No en-suite or no room to add one.

Overlooked garden.

Small rooms.

Could be because there are a lot of parents on here and they prefer to bathe little children.
I rent without a bath. I think I've missed it a couple of times in a few years...

Noisy children...we once tried to view a house with six children in it, they were so noisy and wouldn't leave us alone so it was impossible to look properly at the house.

Other than that, in a busy or noisy road, no dining room, tiny bedrooms and a conservatory would all be a show stopper.

Spiral staircase
Smell of damp
Not being able to turn car on driveway (only if on a busy road, if it's a quiet road then I can reverse onto the driveway from the road).
Upstairs in the eves, I find it claustrophobic and it gets way too hot.