House Facing an Intersection

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Thank you! My question was serious so I appreciate your answer!

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Agree it depends on the intersection, but it can be very dangerous. I've seen a car go through a large hedge and the front door of the house behind it.

[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 was coming to say this. I grew up in a house like this. No issues with safety bc cars were not going very fast, but always with the headlights beaming in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

You'll get lots of light and not share walls with many neighbors. You can add barriers to stop cars from hitting the house, which is unlikely to happen anyways.

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I love corner units.

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You can get blackout blinds but imagine daylight in winter and rainy days when it gets dark and gloomy, you can just raise blinds and let light shine.

[Anonymous]

Most corner units have more curb appeal than other homes.

[Anonymous]

It’s a very very bad choice.

[Anonymous]

Iron fence

[Anonymous]

Bad idea. Lights at night and additional noise from vehicles stopping and getting going again. While the chances of a car driving up your lawn into your house may be small, any future potential buyer with children probably won't want them playing in the front yard; there's a non-zero chance of somebody juimping the curb, even if not making it all the way to the house.

It's an incurable defect which will be obvious to future buyers; you'll limit your pool of potential buyers with home sited like that. There is truth in the adage that with real estate location is everything, and here the location is poor. Why buy such a house when plenty offer mnore favorable lots.