What's your real estate pet peeve?

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Anonymous wrote:Vinyl plank flooring

+ infinity.

I don't even want to look at the house when I see that it has "luxury" vinyl floors.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re condo shopping right now. A bunch of my peeves have already been mentioned, including the lack of floors plans. My new gripes are:
- being too cheap for a matterport 3d tour on expensive listings
- photos of random filler crap, like old town views, del ray, the nearby metro. One condo even showed the little chair and table area by the elevators which seemed like an attempt to pretend the condo had an extra den
- using the fake AI remodel as if it’s an actual photo, including one time as the main listing photo

This irritates me too! I know how important location, location, location is, but unless the scene is the view out a window of the house, I don't need to see it in the listing.

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Anonymous wrote:I say this every time so I will say it again: when you open the front door and the staircase is RIGHT in front of you. It feels confrontational to me.

For anyone tired of hearing me say that, here's another one: when the side of the bathroom vanity/sink is not flush against the wall, leaving a half inch gap where things can fall down but you'll never be able to get them. I've been seeing that more and more.

Lastly, I hate pedestal sinks. Have since the first time I saw one as a child.

This is so funny to me. I know you’ve been here forever and shared this before and I think of you sometimes when I look at houses lol. But a staircase in the entry is one of the most classic, traditional elements in homes. My parents have a Victorian house and both front doors open to a foyer that is alllll about the staircase. What era of home doesn’t have a staircase in the entry? A ranch?

+1

I think of staircase PP, too, weirdly enough. She started a movement.

LOL I think of her too! I laugh because the stairs were right in front of the front door in our Victorian rowhouse and I loved it.

We bought a house last year and the front doors open into a foyer with a wall in front of the doors. The stairs are at the left part of the foyer. One architect suggested that we move the stairs so they're not in the foyer at all. That was such a weird idea to us. Why would we want to have to do extra walking every time we come and go? Plus putting us in the foyer puts us in the center of the house so it's quicker to get anywhere rather than if the stairs were off to one side of the house.

I thought of the confrontational stairs pp and how she would have moved the stairs so she wouldn't have to look at them, the same way I place my bra and underwear under my clothes when I have to wear an exam gown. Dirty stairs lol.

I do this too!

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Realtors.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I say this every time so I will say it again: when you open the front door and the staircase is RIGHT in front of you. It feels confrontational to me.

For anyone tired of hearing me say that, here's another one: when the side of the bathroom vanity/sink is not flush against the wall, leaving a half inch gap where things can fall down but you'll never be able to get them. I've been seeing that more and more.

Lastly, I hate pedestal sinks. Have since the first time I saw one as a child.

This is so funny to me. I know you’ve been here forever and shared this before and I think of you sometimes when I look at houses lol. But a staircase in the entry is one of the most classic, traditional elements in homes. My parents have a Victorian house and both front doors open to a foyer that is alllll about the staircase. What era of home doesn’t have a staircase in the entry? A ranch?

+ 100

I’ve always thought the posters who post this have never owned or shopped for a multi level home.

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Anonymous wrote:I hate when developers don’t account for each townhouse / condo having two or three cars plus a need for visitor parking. I live next to a high density building and it’s a big issue.

You can blame lefty government for this one. It's called "transit-oriented development" and the developers get grant money for NOT putting in enough parking spaces to encourage "walking, cycling and transit use" and discourage car ownership. As far as I have seen it doesn't work and the tenants just park all over the neighborhood.

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At todays interest rates putting less than 20 percent down is a massive mortgage payment.

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Cheap appliances

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Low ceilings.

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The hvac is noisy

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House smells like they just cooked dinner.

Declutter! Throw away or donate.

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Properties that first show in the mls and are already sold.

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Two story great rooms. Why?

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Anonymous wrote:Nonfunctional design. I want a place (preferably a closet) to put costs and shoes by the door. I want to be able to stand at the sink and load the dishwasher. I want a wall for a TV in the living room and some cabinets without glass doors to store packaged food.

YES - as the victim of two corner sinks over the years I heartily endorse this!

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Cigarette smoke, Indian food, kimchi, pet smells.

Clutter!

In this market, buyers Notice all these things but it will sell anyways. It’s too hot in the DC area. Buyers will have to fumigate at house and pull carpet, etc.