Unrealistic to think a house will come up that don't have pets?

[CactusFlr]

I'm not a pet owner and I'm adamant I don't want to buy a house that has pets but am I being unrealistic? Most of my family have or have had dogs. An EA mentioned it's about 70%. Is that really true, it's seems high to me?

Firstly, you can’t put this restriction when it’s not even you buying

secondly, yes new carpets could be expensive plus a professional cleaning but buying a house is also expensive! Perhaps you need to save up so you can pay for the clean if you are the one with the issue

@CactusFlr for goodness sake! pets are not sold with the house! they go with the owners!! stop being pathetic!

Well that’s just ridiculous then. Advising other people that they should buy a house on the very random criteria of no pets is just silly. And naive and immature. You might as well say that they should only buy one with a red front door or chrome light switches. Those things just don’t matter when you are buying a house.

That is why the TV programme is called ‘location location location’ and not ‘no pets no pets no pets’.

Oh that's interesting - I know he apparently 'grew out' of it a bit so I wonder if there was some exposure involved!

You can't control the house that your parents are buying. You are being massively unreasonable to try and put those restrictions on them.

😂imagine if they didn't.

I'm with you. Life is a nightmare when my allergies are out of control. When buying a house, I want to be able to live in it. I would anyway be pulling up all carpets though to make it easier to clean dust.

Except it's not even her buying the house

That’s so irrational! Next door but one to me doesn’t have pets, the only one I know of that doesn’t, but it’s a dossy share house so will cost a lot more to put right vs. next door on the other side where they do have a dog but also they’ve done it up no expense spared and have a cleaner twice a week. Also are you also going to rule out young kids because potty training probably means a lot more pee and poop on the floors than you’d get from your typical litter trained cat…?

If it’s your parents house then it’s not really your place but if they were willing then your best is to hold back a few hundred quick for a professional move out clean including the carpets.

Sounds like a new build might suit you best @CactusFlr ?

All clean - no previous owners with pets.

Buy a new build, sorted.

When we moved last year the only sign the previous owners had a dog was the neighbours telling us when we moved in. No sign when we viewed and no smell. We did replace the carpets but we'd've done that anyway.

Even if the current owner is pet free now, they may have in the past, or previous owners. Buy a new build

Thanks for that, that's not a bad price.
Also I can't demand no, but they are taking my concerns into consideration. Their answer is as mentioned on here to change the carpets and have the house cleaned before we move in.

I suppose it’s not dissimilar to objecting to the smell of cigarette smoke in a house or car. It seems to be almost impossible to remove that smell, no matter how much you clean, decorate and replace things.

DH found a second hand car he really liked, but didn’t buy it because, although it had been cleaned extensively, the smell was in the fabric of the roof lining and the seats and plastics. We viewed a house years ago and I couldn't look round it because of the smell. Perhaps the OP feels like that.

Honestly OP, your options are deep cleaning/replacing carpeting, or buy a new build. Even if the current owners of a property don't have pets, it's entirely possible that the people who owned it before them did, you're not going to get the whole pet-owning history of a house when you buy unless it's brand new.

I’d just pay for a professional clean inc having the carpets shampooed.

So in my little group of 4 houses. 3 currently have pets, 1 doesn’t. But the 1 that doesn’t their dog died last year, but if their house was on the market you wouldn’t know there had previously been a dog? Are you going to ask everyone about the animal history?

The previous owners also smoked in the house and honestly... That plus the dogs means the house smells no matter what I do 🤢😆 I'm really hoping that replacing the carpets will solve it?!

A home with pets and fastidious owners might be much cleaner than one with no pets and a vacuum that merely gathers dust.

I think, before the carpets are replaced, scrub the floorboards, or whatever the floor is composed of.

@SeaAndStars people without pets can be fastidious too. It’s not either or.

Oh, OP…. GET A BLOODY GRIP!

Plenty of cleaning companies or just cleaners will do a full house clean. Probably a separate company to shampoo carpets. That relies on you having time on completion before you move in as most house sales are move out and in on the same day unless first time buyers.
Lots of pet owners think their house doesn't smell but to someone who doesn't have pets they really do. If you ask someone whether your house smells they are not going to say yes.

If you aren't actually paying for any of the house then i don't think you get a say on the previous pet thing. Surely you are just thankful that your DP continue to accommodate you?

It’s quite weird…