Anonymous
10/12/2021 14:18
Subject: Re:What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote:Open first floor. I need rooms to retreat to, and I want my kitchen apart from the living room. I know I'm in the minority here.
Not any more, work from home taught many to love walls.
Anonymous
10/12/2021 14:16
Subject: Re:What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote: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
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
10/12/2021 14:10
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote:No garage
Slope toward back of house
Slope up, slope down, or both?
Anonymous
10/12/2021 14:00
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
+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.
But since location, bedrooms, and price were our primary factors, I was willing to compromise on a lot.
Anonymous
10/12/2021 14:00
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote:Where are you finding sunken living rooms? I’m with you on the pipe stem thing. And backing up to a major road. Those were dealbreakers for us.
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
10/12/2021 14:00
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
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.
I love my pipestem but I understand it's neighbor dependent. We have great neighbors and make sure to keep that relationship healthy.
Anonymous
10/12/2021 13:59
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote: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.
wow. i was thinking about Mantua but I guess that's a hard no.
Anonymous
10/12/2021 13:58
Subject: Re:What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
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
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
10/12/2021 13:56
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If I'm not looking to renovate; a cooktop in an island is a hard no.
Same here. I don’t understand why they do that. It is so dangerous.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is it so dangerous?
Uhmmm....what
Anonymous
10/12/2021 13:51
Subject: Re:What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
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
10/12/2021 13:50
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote:Fixer uppers. We know ourselves and know it's not for us. We got a newish build 5 years ago and have had blissfully few repairs or issues to deal with.
+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
10/12/2021 13:46
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If I'm not looking to renovate; a cooktop in an island is a hard no.
Same here. I don’t understand why they do that. It is so dangerous.
Maybe I'm missing something, but why is it so dangerous?
Anonymous
10/12/2021 13:45
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
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
10/12/2021 13:43
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Owned by someone who posts here.
Anonymous
10/12/2021 13:40
Subject: What's an absolute "No" in your house search?
Anonymous wrote:Just a note for the "no gas" and "island cooktop" people... I used to have those same hard NOs. And then I bought a house with an induction cooktop on the island. It was AMAZING. I thought I would hate it, but I loved it. And now I have gas again and really miss my induction.
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.