What are your dealbreakers in home/apartment? (fireplace, sand, kitchen)

[Oreo's Mom]

If I couldn't change anything in the place, my deal breakers would would be
1. Location
2. Carpet on the bathroom
3. Crazy neighbors
4. No central air or heat, especially in Texas

[eggalegga]

Location deal breakers
Noise: airplane, train tracks, fire station, PD, schools, busy street, traffic congestion
Smell: water treatment or poulty processing plant, horse/cow pastures
North facing driveway

Architectural/layout dealbreakers
split entry floorplan
no attached garage
small master
small master bath

[scorpioqueen]

These are current and in the apartment as of now:
Maintanance and management are aware of the problem but could care less

-Sagging ceiling due to possible water damage

-Leaking ceiling every time it rains

-Unchanged carpet

-Dishwasher not up to par

-Roaches, no matter how much you clean and maintain this

cars approach (even though there is plenty of room on the tennis court and a designated play area)

-Noisy neighbors (constant arguing and fighting peak time is 5a-7a)

-Filthy neighbors littering leaving trash around the units as well as in the middle of the street

-Mold

-Neighbors (loud) and their guests loitering outside in the common areas all hours of the day and night (previous apartment)

Also, if this was not in place it would be a dealbreaker, no central a/c.

[scorpioqueen]

Originally Posted by confusedasusual

Let's say theoretically you were not able to change anything about a space and had to move in as is.

What are your dealbreakers? Here are mine:

WtW Carpet
Kitchens/bathrooms with no windows
Shallow bathtubs
Shower only bathrooms

I would definitely walk away from those. Personally, I think more places (I am speaking about apartments) should offer garden bathtubs (huge sunken ones), I saw those when we were apartments hunting outside of our area.

[scorpioqueen]

Originally Posted by eggalegga

Location deal breakers
Noise: airplane, train tracks, fire station, PD, schools, busy street, traffic congestion
Smell: water treatment or poulty processing plant, horse/cow pastures
North facing driveway

Architectural/layout dealbreakers
split entry floorplan
no attached garage
small master
small master bath

What is that? Is it those standard vertical driveways on the side of houses?

[scorpioqueen]

Originally Posted by HWTechGuy

Window A/C units
Overbearing HOA
Postage-stamp size lot
No garage

It should take about 5-10 minutes to cut the grass, my dad and his wife have half of this, more like a landing strip, but the house is 6000 sq ft.

[Ohiogirl81]

Originally Posted by scorpioqueen

Personally, I think more places (I speaking about apartments) should offer garden bathtubs (huge sunken ones)

I don't think I've taken a bath in 20 years. No doubt I'm not alone; many people tend to prefer showers.

Most of the people I know who have big garden tubs say they rarely use them.

[scorpioqueen]

Originally Posted by Delahanty

For me it would be sliding glass doors, which I think are extremely unsafe.

Yea there were alot of break-ins at my old apartment complex through those doors. I never felt safe, they were townhomes, I just knew someone would kick them in one day, thankfully they did not.

[scorpioqueen]

Originally Posted by Ohiogirl81

I don't think I've taken a bath in 20 years. No doubt I'm not alone; many people tend to prefer showers.

Most of the people I know who have big garden tubs say they rarely use them.

I usually take showers too, especially after exercising. But I love taking baths and relaxing. I hate the standard bathtubs you can't stretch out without your legs hanging out of the other side.

[eggalegga]

Originally Posted by eggalegga

Location deal breakers
Noise: airplane, train tracks, fire station, PD, schools, busy street, traffic congestion
Smell: water treatment or poulty processing plant, horse/cow pastures
North facing driveway

Architectural/layout dealbreakers
split entry floorplan
no attached garage
small master
small master bath

Originally Posted by scorpioqueen

What is that? Is it those standard vertical driveways on the side of houses?

A driveway on the north side of the house. During the winter, snow/ice take longer to melt off north facing surfaces. Makes for quite the shoveling/snow throwing effort compared with neighbors without a north facing driveway. Also, the snow/ice lingering longer lends itself to the possibilty of guests falling when approaching the front door.