I would NEVER buy a house with…

[Wyr]

• 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…

I hope they at least know about the drive and the dog, they are pretty obvious!!

Stairs in the living room
if there’s no downstairs toilet
no off road parking

shared drive
any right of way across my land
artificial grass - awful!!!

A circular staircase

I'm in no position to be fussy but I wouldn't want to live right opposite a bus stop with all the strangers loitering outside my house day and night. I would also hate to live on a ground floor flat with a communal bin hub right outside my kitchen window.

• No outdoor garden area
• Signs of problem neighbours
• Which is too big / has too many bathrooms - life is too short to be cleaning a too big house.

I wouldn’t buy a house Near an electricity plylon or near a 5g mast.
Also non negotiables for my next house would be a shared driveway and a garden that’s really overlooked

Trampoline in next door neighbour’s garden!

Grey decor (very dreary)
Fake grass
On street parking - must have off street parking

• No mains sewerage. Current house has a shared private cesspit for the development - so expensive and neighbours don’t bother maintaining their pipes so we get their sh*t overflowing on our garden all winter 🤢 Never ever ever again!
• No garden
• No green spaces in walking distance for the dogs

Not too fussed about the inside of the house 😂

No bath, or no capacity to put one in.
downstairs bathroom.
lots of separate rooms, has to be open plan .
north facing garden.
loads of rubbish in the neighbours garden.

Near my MIL

Where I live we aren't allowed to have the wheelie bins outside the front of the houses, except for bin day.
I wouldn't want to be wheeling bins through the house.

I’ve learned from my current house never to consider:

More bathrooms than bedrooms. (Hours of cleaning).

Adjacent to a massive duck pond. (They shit everywhere, eat all my plants, the drakes are v rapey and I must have taken 20 lost/injured ducklings to the animal sanctuary).

Unfortunately I’m never moving house again so I have to suck it up!

I’ve a few hates in my house according to this.

Both bedrooms upstairs have en-suites
Conservatory - love it, it’s wonderful to sit in.
Stairs in the lounge.
Summer house in garden.
Not at all open plan - however conservatory leads on from kitchen and has dining table in and comfy sofa.
West facing garden.
Plenty of dogs around.

No hallway.

Yeah this is a bit of a wanky thread considering how many homeless people, and people struggling there are. Some of the reasons are just daft.

I will never be able to afford to buy a house but if my lottery numbers did come up and I had enough for a normal sized house, my number one no would be somewhere liable to flooding.
Things I am not keen on but could change;
Open plan - not for me , I would be putting back walls/doors
Artificial grass - just don't like it.
Downstairs bathroom/no downstairs toilet - at an age where I need a wee in the night and DH needs a toilet on the same floor as he is on.
Inconsiderate neighbors.

I wouldn’t want to live somewhere where people store their wheelie bins at the front of the houses. That would seriously be a deal breaker.

I am also confused as to why people hate solar panels. And also en suites! Why?

Yeah, I was offered Blenheim Palace for twelve quid. Then I had a look, saw there was some artificial grass, about 20 yards square of it, in one of the kitchen gardens. Walked away.

A white kitchen sink.
No drive way.
no garden

Without a bath
Without a decent local pub
Without a garden

Artificial grass is gross, but it can be got rid of fairly easily.

OMG, I don't know whether to feel horrified, or impressed! 😆 I think it would so cool to have a massive swimming pool in the garden, but not at the expense of having a garden - like no flowers, or flower beds, or lawn, or planters, or patio, or benches, or swings and slides for the kids, or anything. Just water. 😆 And as has been said, whilst a garden swimming pool sounds like a cool thing to have, they are high maintenance!

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As much as I love the look of them, I will also add:

• A thatched roof - friends have awful issues with getting house insurance and have had to raise the height of their chimney multiple times (even though they don’t use the fireplace) as regs have changed over the years to qualify for insurance.
• Wisteria, ivy or any other plants up the house - damage to the building and a climbing frame for rodents to access the loft!