I would NEVER buy a house with…

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• solar panels

• a ‘garden house’ IE a lockdown special outdoor wooden shed dressed up as an office - usually taking up half the garden and completely pointless

• a neighbour who has a load of cars / shit in their yard - hoarder vibes

who’s next? 3 things that would make you not buy a house…

There is no such thing as a fancy caravan. They just get tackier ;)

Solar panels and a lockdown garden room are a yes for me.
I would never buy a house with a tiny yard for a garden, or a 1960s style house. Or a house with a railroad at the end of the garden.

• with just one loo
• without a garden
• in a neighbourhood we didn’t like (or next to a busy road, train tracks etc.)

Totally agree - that is literally the only thing about my house that I hate.

Luckily we have a great relationship with the neighbours but they do have a habit of hogging the driveway and do expect us to move instantly if they want to get back on after being out anywhere, even if my husband is working on the car.

Also makes it hard if I want to get my car out of the garage and my neighbour is obsessive about washing his car and it creates an ice-rink in colder months and we suspect the detergent he uses is responsible for the sudden allergies on our dog's paws.

If we were ever to move (which hopefully we never do as we love our house), a shared driveway would be a definite no-go.

Same. If the yard was large enough for a lockdown house / shed.

I don't disagree with you however I've often heard it referred to as the "landlord special" often used to cut corners and hide problems.

A few friends have been stung when buying properties with this exact problem.

We lived in a village with private roads, the potholes where insane, several feet deep. Everyone just threw rubble/solid rubbish in when having building work or digging up paving slabs etc... to try and fill them back up.

It was a poor area so no one could really afford to fix it really and whose responsibility is it to organize? ever tried to get 40 houses on board to agree on something and then hand over cash?

Yes, exactly to London compromises. We were perfectly happy in our tiny zone 2 flat with no outdoor space, because London was on the doorstep with all its riches, and there was a big park across the street which the entire neighbourhood treated as a communal garden in summer, eating dinner, reading a book, meeting friends, doing yoga etc. When we moved to a village in the midlands with a baby, the house had to work a lot harder, as we were in it more, and people lived much more ‘privately’, driving home, going into the house, and not leaving it again until they drove somewhere else.

Never buy a house with just a shower, artificial grass, parking actually I can think of loads, must be overly picky..

Good call, I wouldn't want a house on the railway line. We looked at one once and it was an instant nope.

In our case based on our current figures (usage, purchased energy and sold energy) it will be 7-8 years on current energy tariffs. The system has a 25 year warranty on the panels, inverters and optimisers. We have no plans to move hence the reason for installing now.

Im still struggling to see my gullibility?

The things I really like about my house are that it's in a quiet cul-de-sac, has offroad parking, is walking distance from school and a short bike ride to my office. I'd struggle to compromise on any of those.
Things like decor and fake grass wouldn't stop me as I'd immediately rip it out.

• A living room/diner rather than a kitchen/diner
• no downstairs loo
• no hallway- front door j

ust opens straight into living room

• artex anywhere

-no driveway

Oh, I love the sound of trains, it's white noise to me. I would rather this with a nice high fence, than being overlooked by neighbours. I wouldn't want noisy ones though!

Any form of shared access!

Plastic grass never ever ever.
I’d also struggle massively to accept white PVC windows but in the UK there’s not that much choice! I’d have to have them painted or changed though asap after purchase.

This thread is mad!

We have a very undesirable house haha

New build
downstairs is all open plan
no garage
north facing garden
private road

ooooooo the horror!! None of these thing bothered me before now, maybe this will after reading this thread

Fake grass.
Plastic windows and doors.
Noisy neighbours.
Limited natural light.
En suites that mean the bedrooms are tiny.

No plans to sell though definitely not devalued based on neighbouring houses selling with similar systems where it has had a positive impact on price. Caveat to say in Ireland so the housing market is crazy and in my county houses on average are selling for 75-100K more than asking.

Definitely more to life but in a world where the COL is increasing day by day we’re trying to be mindful and cut costs where we can. In our case wasn’t a snap decision, it’s something we thought about for approx 2 years with lots of research and thought into the whole thing.

And absolutely no compromise to the house or roof. It helps when your husbands background is construction. We did use a highly reputable recommended company though

The presence of mould is a sign of cheap panels and/or poor fitting.

Shared drive, any other property attached..no parking on site.noisy area busy road,near a school
.I do have solar panels,2 batteries,2 years ago my bills were £150 per month, they are now £20.30 south facing front garden and roof,been making 30kw a day exporting 20. Payback expected to be around 5 years..I also have a north facing garden, but because it's almost 200 ft long,there is always sun.. also got a conservatory, because it's a detached bungalow, sunny or light all year
.I would have liked a bigger kitchen, but it's what we could afford,so you make the best of it.

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What’s wrong with solar panels?

Ugly af!

Active substance

On a main road

Bad neighbours

I'm game for most other stuff if the house meets my requirements. But I only ever buy serious fixer-uppers.

Don't worry. They're all stereotypical hates on MN. I'm surprised that hot tubs, eg, "cest pits," haven't come up yet! 😂 FWIW I dislike tiny enclosed rooms, I prefer space, and the house to flow. A small enclosed kitchen and dining room next door would be a no for me, I'd be knocking walls down. 😂MIL got her kitchen done, and left the dining room separate and it just looked awful, two small little rooms sandwiched nxt to each other. The new owners came in, knocked the wall through, bricked up a door, and it looks amazing with much more space, they have also extended out back to include a sofa area, and still plenty garden left.