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…

@Wyr why no solar panels?

A white kitchen sink? What’s this now? 🥴

What would you prefer?

…a flat roof.

Well, I used to say that until I bought one. Here I am, standing in the back bedroom of my old terraced, looking down to the old kitchen extension’s flat roof.

This!! Hahaha!

please do move along if you are triggered :) thanks!

Ugly as sin

Another shout for artificial grass
White kitchen
Hot tub
uPVC windows in an old house
Shared drive or right of way across property
Only one bathroom

Wisteria, ivy or any other plants up the house

Our house had wisteria all over the front. Passers-by take photos of it. Someone set up
an easel outside and painted it! I’m now worried the attention is because it’s so undesirable 😮😆

Yeah, there are some tiny 2 bed terraced houses in a town 7 miles from me, (built around 2010,) with teeny tiny front gardens, (like around 5-6 feet from the front door to the public footpath,) and no access to the back. For some of them, they have to walk like 3-4 minutes to get round to the back gate. (Terrible design!)

Most people can't be faffed to walk around, and they don't want to drag the wheelie bin(s) through their house, so many of them have their wheelie bins in the front. Right by the front (lounge) window! 😖

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Nope recent studies show wisteria can add £20,000 to a house price
people love them

A downstairs bathroom.
upvc windows and doors
a very small/galley kitchen

Well I can't disagree there. Most solar panels don't look great. They rarely improve the look of a house!

A shared driveway, path, or back access

A garage that isn’t attached to the house or at the back of the house and it’s in a block somewhere at the back

one where the back access have those huge gates that you have to open and close every time you want to drive around the back of your house

no driveway

Solar panels

conservatory

all electric

Aren't most kitchen sinks stainless steel?

Solar panels don't look so ugly when you have no electricity bills! (Mine are not on my house though but in the garden).

They definitely still do 😆

A lot of people have white ceramic sinks farmhouse kinda style

My cousin lives on a pretty little road with Edwardian terraces. They have alley ways between every 2 or so houses, yet 99% of the residents have their ugly wheelie bins at the front of their houses (no front gardens; they’re on the stone sett footpath). It’s such an ugly sight on a lovely road just because people are too lazy to wheel the bins in and out once a fortnight.

A busy road or a motorway within a mile
Under the flight path for an airport
No parking
No garden
No chimney

our house has solar panels on it. The control panel for controlling them is broken and no electrician will touch them. We can’t take them off cause they’re constantly ‘on’ so can’t be isolated and safe to work on. I’d never buy a house with them on again!

Also conservatories. We’ve got a south facing one and it’s bloody awful can’t wait to save up the £70k needed to knock down and rebuild as an extension!

I can’t think of anyone I know that has a stainless steel sink. We had one in our kitchen when we moved in, but was a it was a 1980s style kitchen.

Honestly I’ve just always known I’d loathe inheriting someone’s solar panels
Could be most amazing house on the planet I’ll be scrolling on by any with a solar panel or 10 attached to it

Curious @Wyrwhy you’d not buy a house with solar panels?

In a previous place we rented, the houses had no wheelie bins, so you were just supposed to leave your rubbish in bags on the street. Some people put them out early and the rats got to them, it was grim. Also you either had to keep rubbish inside or put it outside then drag it through. The upstairs flats had no choice but to keep a weeks rubbish inside.

They’re pretty standard
I believe ikea is one of most popular kitchens in UK and they have plenty of stainless steel sinks
stainless steel is very popular in cheaper kitchens and very sanitary