Crazy things that put you off buying a house

[Pip in a Poke]

What's yours? I'm so fussy, there are certain things I just can't see past.

I have a friend who can walk into a hovel and vizualise exactly how it'll look once she's worked her magic.

I only have to see an artex ceiling and I'm out.

But the thing that really gets me (and yes, I know it's completely irrational) is to walk into an otherwise flawless property to find that it's inhabited by a mad cat woman.

I don't know if it's the bowls of kit-e-kat and trays of cat litter in the bedrooms, just the idea of cats in themselves (they are evil), or the nutty cows that own them.

I mean, it's only a short step from mad catwomanness to witchcraft & I don't want to live in a house that's cursed.

So, I always ask the agent first before I go to view.

Anyone got any weird property foibles?

[woohoo]

I hate the noise of kids playing, so if I go to see a house say in a cul-de-sac and there are toys about or a set of goal posts out in the road then I'm out.

[PurpleGorilla]

Price - I take one look and it freaks the hell out of me - how little you get for a whole life of servitude is bloody scary.

[Pip in a Poke]

I hate the noise of kids playing, so if I go to see a house say in a cul-de-sac and there are toys about or a set of goal posts out in the road then I'm out.

Or the ubiquitous trampolines!

[Pip in a Poke]

Price - I take one look and it freaks the hell out of me - how little you get for a whole life of servitude is bloody scary.

That's why I'm considering overseas...

[Chuck]

I hate the noise of kids playing, so if I go to see a house say in a cul-de-sac and there are toys about or a set of goal posts out in the road then I'm out.

I bought my house in London in a very quiet close. Not a child in sight. Lovely.

Now all the old buggers are dying off though, and their houses are being bought by young families.

[SimonMac]

What's yours? I'm so fussy, there are certain things I just can't see past.

I have a friend who can walk into a hovel and vizualise exactly how it'll look once she's worked her magic.

I only have to see an artex ceiling and I'm out.

But the thing that really gets me (and yes, I know it's completely irrational) is to walk into an otherwise flawless property to find that it's inhabited by a mad cat woman.

I don't know if it's the bowls of kit-e-kat and trays of cat litter in the bedrooms, just the idea of cats in themselves (they are evil), or the nutty cows that own them.

I mean, it's only a short step from mad catwomanness to witchcraft & I don't want to live in a house that's cursed.

So, I always ask the agent first before I go to view.

Anyone got any weird property foibles?

Location, everything else can be changed (at a price)

[Major Hassle]

Drunks walking past at night, move out of town or buy a gun - decided to move

[ladymuck]

Having gone back into rented after deciding home ownership was too much of a faff, I will refuse to view properties that don't have a gas hob and detest kitchens that are in the living room. Open plan is not for me (although my current flat is slightly open plan but it can be separated off); I see no benefit in having the cooker located directly behind my sofa. Closing a kitchen door has always been the quickest way to stop the smoke detectors...

[VectraMan]

Last time I was looking at buying a house the thing that put me off was the realisation that I'd need to work like a dog until my 60s just to get something with loud children/drunks/cursed by a cat-lady witch/artex ceilings/site of a series of notorious murders / about to be washed into the North Sea / built on an ancient Indian burial ground..