Selling house: neighbours trampoline

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GianinaC · 07/09/2023 14:41

Hello,

I am in the process of selling my home. We live in quite a 'posh' area and the estate agent fed back that a couple of potential buyers have been put off by the neighbours ugly massive trampoline and goal posts.

You can see the children bouncing as they stare over at us as they can see into the back of our house. I find it annoying myself as its ruined my garden time, why anyone needs one so big I don't know.

There is a 6ft fence but their equipment is higher than that.

Are there any quick fixes to hide it from view? The fence is at the max legal height and I don't want to spend a fortune.

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Pista41 · 13/09/2023 11:56

But even for me it's ruined by screaming kids, balls smashing the fence etc until 10pm at night.

That’s too much and they shouldn’t do that - you’d be completely within your rights to complain to them - but I’ve never experienced that from a trampoline-owning family! I certainly don’t think a buyer would assume that. I have one and my son uses it for a few minutes perhaps twice a week.

Not everyone is going to like your house, and they will all have different (and sometimes quite odd) reasons. A family would probably be very pleased to have another family next door, do you not want to sell to a family? I live next door to a quiet old person but their overgrown garden is causing major damage to our fence and garden office.

There are loads of great properties sitting on the market right now, it’s a bad time to sell and August is always particularly quiet. I think you’re fixating on this too much, unless the EA is saying that this is coming from all or most viewers.

Aquanaut1 · 17/02/2024 20:15

Literally just viewing properties today. The only one I liked was beautiful. Then I saw the trampoline and jungle gym in the next doors garden. The trampoline was huge and right against the middle fence. My heart sank and it completely put me off making an offer. Can you imagine trying to relax in your garden in the summer.

monpetitlapin · 17/02/2024 20:26

Why are so many 5/6 month old threads getting resurrected tonight?

Papricat · 18/02/2024 00:39

I would throw buckets of ice
at the neighbour kids.

Brumhilda · 18/02/2024 05:25

DrySherry · 07/09/2023 16:24

I like hearing my neighbours kids playing on the trampoline, admittedly we can't actually see them. It's not like they do it all day, an hour or two here and there. Doesn't bother us at all.
On top of that trampoline age hardly lasts forever.

You just haven't had the right people interested yet - and as someone else also suggested - it's probably price if you are not getting any offers. Halifax reported a 1.9% decline for August against July. That's massive. On a posh house (say £800k if your outside London) that's the equivalent of the property loosing 16k in a month ! Frightening really - it seems falls are accelerating which will really start to spook even posh territory buyers...

Yep I think it will take a year for prices to get real and bottom out.

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