House Facing an Intersection

[Anonymous]

I’m interested in a house is that is right at an intersection and wondering if this makes a house less valuable and harder to sell down the road. If you think of a T the house is where the left to right line intersects and meets in the center of the vertices line. Across the street is the parallel street where the stop sign is right at the corner. When you are stopped there the house is directly in front of you. Do you think it’s dangerous to live at an intersection like that? I really want to see the house but concerned a car might loose control and wind up in the center hall of the home if someone lost control of their car. It happened nearby and there was no house straight ahead. There are some shrubs that are at the foot of the path which could cushion a hit just not sure they would. Anybody have experience with this?
Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Like if you don’t stop, you run up into the house’s lawn?

I don’t think there’s any danger,
My parents have been in that setup for decades with no accident issues, but it’s horrifically bad feng shui. Maybe that’s why they have a terrible marriage.

[Anonymous]

How busy is the street? I live in a house on a corner - it's not quite a T like you describe, but it's close. When you are driving up the street towards my house, the street bends a little and if you don't stop at the stop sign and keep coming straight instead of turning, you could end up in my living room. However, we are in a neighborhood. It is not a busy street. And we have a curb and sidewalk, so you'd hit the curb before you'd reach my yard. I've lived in this house for 25 years and never had anyone come up into my yard.

[Anonymous]

How busy is this perpendicular road where cars are at the stop sign?

Once it's dark, you have will car lights beaming at your house, in your windows, and the red blinker lights. Not for me.

[Anonymous]

it's bad feng shui, so you are much less likely to get an all-cash chinese buyer.

childhood friend lived at a poorly-lit T intersection in the country and ended up with a car in their living room a few times until they bought some big boulders and installed them in the front yard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it's bad feng shui, so you are much less likely to get an all-cash chinese buyer.

childhood friend lived at a poorly-lit T intersection in the country and ended up with a car in their living room a few times until they bought some big boulders and installed them in the front yard.

Haha, this maybe true. But I don't think there is as much danger of damage, the worst is probably having the lights of the cars shine into your windows more often than in some other location. I definitely would not put a bedroom facing the street if you are early or light sleeper. Planting shrubs and thicker living fence type of thing should take care of this problem, so can blackout curtains to some extent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How busy is this perpendicular road where cars are at the stop sign?

Once it's dark, you have will car lights beaming at your house, in your windows, and the red blinker lights. Not for me.

Yes, this is probably the extent of the problems she is likely to experience. It may bother some and not others, and also depends on the internal layout, plus can be mitigated to a good extent by shrubbery and curtains. I personally wouldn't like it if this is a busy road, every time cars shine their lights into our windows it startles me, I suppose you can get used to it, we are in a cul-de-sac, so it's very infrequent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it's bad feng shui, so you are much less likely to get an all-cash chinese buyer.

childhood friend lived at a poorly-lit T intersection in the country and ended up with a car in their living room a few times until they bought some big boulders and installed them in the front yard.

How is it bad feng shui? Like there are rules about a house (in 2024 vs. a rural chinese village) that should not be on a t- or an a cross roads? What about stoplights or stop signs? What if the T is a cul de sac on each side?

[Anonymous]

3 things I dislike the most about it: car noise, street parking (party & friend's visit), and leaving the driveway (backing out).

[Anonymous]

I just moved out of a house like this. We were basically at the top of a 3-way stop. It never occurred to me that someone would drive into our house (but they couldn't have, because our yard was very steep). What did bother me was the noise -- cars slow down doing their stupid rolling stop thing (it seems like almost no one actually stops), then rev up and drive off. Lots of cars play loud music, and you get more than the average dose of that as well as they slow down at the intersection. But my street was a metro cut through, so more than an average amount of traffic. I do know of two neighbors right by me who moved because of it -- one because they were worried about their small children and had safety concerns, and one because they just grew to really hate the noise/traffic.

But I don't think it would have been as big of a deal if my street weren't a metro traffic cut through. I can confidently say I wouldn't buy a house at an intersection like that again. But when we bought that house, I don't think we gave the fact that it was on top of a 3-way stop a second thought.

[Anonymous]

Yes, possibly dangerous and bad juju. We passed on a house like this.

[Anonymous]

feng shui so passe

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:it's bad feng shui, so you are much less likely to get an all-cash chinese buyer.

childhood friend lived at a poorly-lit T intersection in the country and ended up with a car in their living room a few times until they bought some big boulders and installed them in the front yard.

How is it bad feng shui? Like there are rules about a house (in 2024 vs. a rural chinese village) that should not be on a t- or an a cross roads? What about stoplights or stop signs? What if the T is a cul de sac on each side?

Depends on how much traffic goes through the area and if there are stop lights/signs. cul-de-sacs tend to have very few cars and no lights/stop signs usually, but yeah, every car that enters cul-de-sac in the evening would shine their lights into your window. But if you only have a few cars per day doing this and like 2-3 cars per night it's really NBD. Feng-shui thing is tricky and there are so many rules, if you want to follow them all you'd have to turn down a lot of houses most people would find desirable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:feng shui so passe

Do you follow all feng shui rules? If you do you may never be able to buy a house. This is just one of them, there are many more and if you want to do this properly you have invite a specialist with a compass I'd say it's not an issue if it's not a busy intersection and there is a way to plant a living fence and internal layout takes positioning of the house into consideration.

[Anonymous]

Houses are all about trade offs. Nobody gets the perfect house. That said some things are changeable. Some are impractically changeable and some are impossible to change. This is impossible to change but given that you are considering it, I think it is safe to assume that it has other benefits that might make it worth it.