What's an absolute "No" in your house search?

[Anonymous]

Loundon County, as the school board conspired to hide the series of rapes in the high school and junior high restrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loundon County, as the school board conspired to hide the series of rapes in the high school and junior high restrooms.

Seems like you’re posting in a bunch of threads. This isn’t the Virginia school forum

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Family room where the only place to put a TV is over the fireplace.

Hold on - THAT ^^^ is a deal breaker for you?

PP isn't the only one! I HATE TVs over the fireplace. And we watch enough TV that not having someplace else to put it would make this if not a dealbreaker, a real downside.

Lack of sidewalks and/or not walkable would be an actual dealbreaker for me. Walking is my main form of exercise and it's how I decompress, and not being able to step out my door and walk would make me miserable.

+1 hate it! You have to look up so high, it’s uncomfortable. And the TV has to be really small. Plus it looks so tacky.

No it doesn’t. It’s 2021. Ppl watch TV. Big deal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Busy road (aka Connecticut Avenue)

Split levels

Low ceilings

No basement

Hardscrabble lot (where the ground looks very hard and the grass is spare and you can tell it's difficult to have landscaping)

Unkempt neighbors

Too many political/social justice signs

Front door right into the staircase

Only one bathroom

Cramped rooms

Why?

[Anonymous]

Potential for flooding

[Anonymous]

Moldy basement
No off street parking
Yard sloping towards house

[Anonymous]

Any neighborhood with Del or Ray, or Del Ray, in the name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Busy road (aka Connecticut Avenue)

Split levels

Low ceilings

No basement

Hardscrabble lot (where the ground looks very hard and the grass is spare and you can tell it's difficult to have landscaping)

Unkempt neighbors

Too many political/social justice signs

Front door right into the staircase

Only one bathroom

Cramped rooms

Why?

Virtue signaling. And it's a way of telling people with different views they aren't welcome.

I like neighborhoods with very few signs because it tells me people mind their own business and aren't judgmental and don't wear politics on their sleeves. I don't need to see/ know your politics every time I step out of my house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Busy road (aka Connecticut Avenue)

Split levels

Low ceilings

No basement

Hardscrabble lot (where the ground looks very hard and the grass is spare and you can tell it's difficult to have landscaping)

Unkempt neighbors

Too many political/social justice signs

Front door right into the staircase

Only one bathroom

Cramped rooms

Why?

Virtue signaling. And it's a way of telling people with different views they aren't welcome.

I like neighborhoods with very few signs because it tells me people mind their own business and aren't judgmental and don't wear politics on their sleeves. I don't need to see/ know your politics every time I step out of my house.

Because you're so totally nonjudgmental yourself, right?

[Anonymous]

If a house doesn’t have 3 decent sized bedrooms and 2 full bathrooms on the second floor it was a deal breaker for me when we were house hunting. Some houses were listed as 3 bedrooms but one would be the size of a small closet and could maybe be a small office at best. I also didn’t want to share a bathroom with my kids.

A busy street with a lot of traffic is always a dealbreaker, especially if the house is close to the road.

When my kids were young and before they could swim, a pool was a deal breaker but it isn’t anymore.

A house that needs a gut job or a ton of work.

No backyard whatsoever.

Attached houses.

A house with brutal murders that occurred there.

[Anonymous]

Anywhere with an HOA. We rented in Reston to get a feel for the NoVA scene when we first moved to this state, and loved it - but also watched our landlord and neighbours deal with the HOA. We didn't buy there, and didn't even look for homes there because we realized HOA was a deal breaker for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Busy road (aka Connecticut Avenue)

Split levels

Low ceilings

No basement

Hardscrabble lot (where the ground looks very hard and the grass is spare and you can tell it's difficult to have landscaping)

Unkempt neighbors

Too many political/social justice signs

Front door right into the staircase

Only one bathroom

Cramped rooms

Why?

Virtue signaling. And it's a way of telling people with different views they aren't welcome.

I like neighborhoods with very few signs because it tells me people mind their own business and aren't judgmental and don't wear politics on their sleeves. I don't need to see/ know your politics every time I step out of my house.

Because you're so totally nonjudgmental yourself, right?

Cool. You get your Takoma Park, I get my low key, friendly neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Loundon County, as the school board conspired to hide the series of rapes in the high school and junior high restrooms.

JFC. At least try to spell Loudoun correctly, troll.

[Anonymous]

kitchen island
front door opening directly onto the living room
lvt plank floors
any renovated house that's had all the interior walls in the communal living space "blown out"
open kitchen
no sidewalks (we own a house now in a neighborhood with no sidewalks and it bugs me even more than I thought it would)
A renovation with a lot of brown and gray tile in the bathrooms
Hoa
exurb
Pacific Northwest location

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Family room where the only place to put a TV is over the fireplace.

Hold on - THAT ^^^ is a deal breaker for you?

PP isn't the only one! I HATE TVs over the fireplace. And we watch enough TV that not having someplace else to put it would make this if not a dealbreaker, a real downside.

Lack of sidewalks and/or not walkable would be an actual dealbreaker for me. Walking is my main form of exercise and it's how I decompress, and not being able to step out my door and walk would make me miserable.

+1 hate it! You have to look up so high, it’s uncomfortable. And the TV has to be really small. Plus it looks so tacky.

Depends how big fireplace is and how big room is. I have it in Den and have a 55 inch tv and watch it from 20 feet back

I am one of the PPs - and I am open to the idea that in some situations a TV over the fireplace might be ok. All the TVs I've ever seen hanging over fireplaces have looked awkward and ugly to me, and like I would not that layout.