What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
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Anonymous
I'm with you, we're about to move, and hope it's the last I ever own a gas stove. Induction is great, island or no. |
Anonymous
| Owned by someone who posts here. |
Anonymous
| Things that are fixable are not deal breakers for me, so long as it's my budget to fix over time. Location can't be changed - so for me it's a thoroughfare. But even more important that that is living on toxic land - I'm talking about you Spring Valley. I used to own a home there (18 years ago), and to this day it's one of my biggest regrets. Yes we made a killing when we sold, but I also have a DS with significant learning challenges that I relate directly back to living in that house, on that land and drinking that water when he was an infant. I also developed two random autoimmune conditions right after we moved. Could they all be coincidental? Yes I suppose so, but I also believe strongly that there's a link. |
Anonymous
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is it so dangerous? |
Anonymous
+1 This is us too. We just built new after living in a fixer upper for ~10 years. We looked at a couple of houses before we decided to build and I realized I have zero appetite for any sort of renovation anymore. Location was also important - we did not want a pipe stem. |
Anonymous
| I wanted to be in a neighborhood, not a main road or middle of nowhere. We have dogs so wanted either a fenced yard or the ability to fence the yard. We looked at one SFH that backed to a golf course and had an open back yard that we would not have been able to fence per the HOA |
Anonymous
Uhmmm....what 
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Anonymous
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No carport
No street parking only (i.e. I need a driveway and garage) No HOA No dirty, dank basement. No sloped un-usable yard No bamboo |
Anonymous
wow. i was thinking about Mantua but I guess that's a hard no. |
Anonymous
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no garage, no basement, no main floor powder room. the rest is negotiable.
I love my pipestem but I understand it's neighbor dependent. We have great neighbors and make sure to keep that relationship healthy. |
Anonymous
DP but we have sunken living room in NWDC and it just means we can have a taller Christmas tree. But we don't have an "open" layout where it would be plausible to extend furniture into other rooms anyway, so there's no real downside. My dealbreaker was no powder room on the ground floor. It actually cut a lot of houses in our price range but I'm still fine with it. |
Anonymous
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+1 to backing up in a busy road. I could never. Also foundation issues.
But since location, bedrooms, and price were our primary factors, I was willing to compromise on a lot. |
Anonymous
Slope up, slope down, or both? |
Anonymous
Since two negatives = a positive you're essentially saying you must have an HOA, a dirty dank basement, a sloped unusable yard, AND bamboo? shouldn't be too hard to find at a great price no doubt. |
Anonymous
Not any more, work from home taught many to love walls. |