Things that set alarm bells ringing when buying a house

[greenlake]

Things that set alarm bells ringing when buying a house

The imposing looking properties at numbers 23 & 24 are false façades, with thin air behind the 5 feet (1.5 m) thick walls – look closely and you’ll see that the windows are in fact just painted on, and the doors have no letter boxes.

The fake houses at 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, London W2

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The fake houses at 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens, Bayswater, London W2

I think thats cos there is a Metropolitan(?) Railway cutting behind and the then local when it was built didn't want a gap.....

[northernladuk]

Moving next to a school and being surprised that it would be busy with people dropping their kids off by car. Pretty dim. Best solution; move somewhere else.

+1 to that. Sometimes you just have to apply a bit of common sense to a situation.

[northernladuk]

I really wanted this lovely House but was put off buying the House because it had a big tree 3 ft from the front door and you could tell the roots were under the foundations.

5 bedroom detached house for sale in Langdon Hills, Essex, SS16, SS16

Hmmm, that would have been worth a more detailed look IMO. All though it's fairly tall it doesn't have a thick trunk so doesn't look to be very mature and certainly isn't older than the house. They would have flattened the plot before building on it. Also it would depend on the type of tree, not all of them spread horizontally as much as others.

If there was an issue then that is grounds to have it felled. Not sure it's old enough to have a preservation order on it but the area might have one. Either way you can get around that if it is indeed causing or going to cause damage.

With a bit of careful investigation you might have been able to knock some money of that, get it felled and bob's your uncle.

I just don't understand why people plant trees infront of the windows of their house. Must block all the light out making it gloomy inside.

[TheCyclingProgrammer]

I really wanted this lovely House but was put off buying the House because it had a big tree 3 ft from the front door and you could tell the roots were under the foundations.

5 bedroom detached house for sale in Langdon Hills, Essex, SS16, SS16

Plus...it's in Basildon.