If you view a house but see a hot tub next door...

[6poundshower]

Are you going to think twice about a purchase. Row of town houses, close together, small gardens. Massive hot tub just the other side in neighbours garden, clearly in regular use. Would it make you think twice about noise.

100% put off by hot tubs. Same for a basketball hoop in the driveway.

Not really. If you are looking at that type of house you can't really escape noise. What if the neighbours (with no hot tub) have kids or a dog. What if they are really sociable and have parties out the back a lot. You can never tell really until you are in.

One of our neighbour's had one (houses close together, you can hear someone fart three doors down). He was single and would bring groups of women back from nights out. You'd hear them all laughing (which is fine) and being obnoxious. What I didn't get is how they'd end up outside our house (a few houses on) at 6am swearing and talking loudly waiting for fuck knows what, maybe a taxi, a life?
Got tubs remind me of American porn films.
I wouldn't buy a house next door to one.

Yup it's actually not that expensive to run them, things like solar panels and converting it to a heat pump can be done to lower the costs. It wouldn't put me off as we would be having one delivered. I currently feel for our neighbours as we ran out of time doing our garden last year but by the time the summer comes we will have an outdoor kitchen/bar and hot tub in a relatively small garden. In the summer we live outside.

I always think if you want silence buy a house in land (our next move), I find trampolines with basketball nets more off putting (have one of them aswell) as balls flying and the squeak of trampoline springs drivers me bonkers if DS is out all day. We invested in the springless one....it still squeaks

We have a hot tub, trampoline, climing frame, swings, football goals and basketball hoop. We have 3 small kids, why on earth wouldn't we use our garden? They don't shout or scream in the garden, they play normally. Our hot tub is super quiet and doesn't smell. And we've never shagged in it, or anything close 😂

So no, none of this would bother me at all. A smoker, or someone with loud music playing, yes.

Yes. It would put me off.

Would definitely put me off buying.

I don’t think hot tubs or garden bars in gardens within close ear shot of neighbours are a signal of anything other than obliviously inconsiderate people. You get those in all walks of life so I don’t see how it’s snobbery.

I wouldn’t bother looking at the rest of a house if I saw the neighbour had a hot tub and/or a garden bar.

A trampoline wouldn’t bother me, I have no problem listening to kids play.

My neighbours have a hot tub and a bar, l live on my own and enjoy the peace, so they definitely got the better end of the deal noise wise, but l just stick my earphones on so l can still enjoy my garden. It's weird though, they are allowed to have parties etc yet should one of the other neighbours have a party they are up in arms. They start marching up and down the garden shouting at them to turn music down. It's like they are totally unaware of how much noise they create.

Yes! My colleague lives in a row of tiny terraces and has a blow up hot tub which they enjoy as a family with several adults whilst listening to music and drinking to excess. I can only imagine how horrendous it is for her neighbours, and as it isn't up all the time, anyone viewing a neighbouring house for sale wouldn't necessarily be forewarned!

I would wonder if the house is used as an Airbnb, or if the owner is the type to have frequent loud parties so it would put me off and would be enough for me not to consider the house.

Thank you everyone. I did wonder. We have a choice of houses, of similar sizes to answer a pp.

It would put me off massively 😬 I always have a good old look out of a top floor window, to check out the neighbours gardens.

Other things that put me off are:

Rubbish everywhere, old broken bikes, toys all over, unkempt and unloved lawns/shrubs etc. I know this wouldn't put some people off, which is fair enough, but it would me 🤷‍♀️ I've lived next door to a house where ALL of the above applied and quite honestly, it was hell! I've also just moved from next door to a 'hot tub house' and that, too, was unbearable! The couple would turn it on most days/evenings in the summer and often in the winter months too! Such a racket, both from the tub itself AND the overload volume of their bloody conversations - even worse when they invited friends over and alcohol was involved! 🤬🤬🤬

Avoid at all costs I'd say!

I would be planning to make friends so I could maybe use the hot tub.

My daughter bought a house with a hot tub in the garden next to fence (seller couldn't take it with them). My grandsons are 8 and 12 -- daughter tells me that when they use it neighbours slam the windows shut! From what I've seen it's bloody annoying and noisy.

I'd think there were some chavs living next door

Hot tubs are crimes on MN.

In the real world, if they are nice people, they are probably fine. If they are loud inconsiderate bastards, they are probably not fine.

It wouldn't bother me. Most of my neighbours use their gardens regularly in summer and we mostly pretend we can't hear each other.

I would not be impressed.

They are just noisy, the tub itself and it's human contents.

Trampolines as well

Modified wanker car in drive

St George's flag on display

Shit looking front garden

I wouldn't buy it. Our neighbours used to have a hot tub, it was so noisy. They'd be in it at night during the summer. I'd hear them late at night, as it was too warm to close the windows. Glad theirs broke 👏

Depends though I guess? How often do they use it and what are the neighbours actually like?

Obviously that is a question for you to ask the vendors - you could ask them what they’re like if they are around on viewings? My neighbour has one and no problems at all.

NDN's garden has a hot tub, a trampoline, a basketball hoop, massive BBQ for parties....we live with it. It's not ideal but they're nice people (just noisy!)

@Cornettoninja just a question in your view what are people allowed to do in their garden? In other countries it's normal to have outdoor kitchens and pools. Why is it so tacky to enjoy your garden in the UK!