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Correct. It's about the smells generated in the immediate neighborhood and/or near by houses. Yes areas have smells from nearby industry, restaurants etc this is most not all but mostly about the immediate neighborhood and adjacent houses.
To me if I have to close my windows because of a smell that's enough not to buy.
Also when many people drive theses days they either have the AC or heat cranking with winodws closed. When house shopping I'd take some slow rides through the area around dinner time, rush hour and weekends for a whole host of reasons but literally take in the area when it comes to smells.
Unfortunately, if people are buying in an area they are new to and the smells are intermittent, they may not notice them when viewing the house. I once warned a co-worker off buying a house in a new development close to the county's huge waste disposal site. The site wasn't visible from the road or the development, but locals knew that when the humidity level was high it tended to give off methane. The only thing worse than the methane was when the site managers sprayed tangerine fragrance to try and mask the odor - the combination was truly nauseating.
Colors wouldn't really bother me, but extreme smells would. And this is regardless of whether the smells are "good" vs. "bad." While I could deal with the smell from a bakery more than the smell coming from a sanitation facility, I would prefer something more neutral (nature, the trees, etc.).
When I lived in Honolulu, there was a sanitation facility that you passed by while driving on the interstate. It was horrible and I always rolled up my windows and/or turned off the AC when passing that area. There was also a bakery in that area, which when the sanitation facility was not conducting ops (and you really couldn't smell rotting trash) smelled absolutely wonderful. But I still wouldn't want to live with those smells constantly either.
If they are good cooking smells then awesome, if you get on well with your neighbours you may end up getting some nice food from them.
I dream of having a nice Indian or Thai family next door that would let me sample some of their delicious food. I'm lucky enough to be married to a foreign woman who has an aunt with a restaurant - yeehaaaa! Just have to be careful not to milk it too much.
I came close to buying a great house right on the water - but the smell from a chemical plant 500ft away was bad M-F when operating, the small group of about 20 homes were about half the price of others nearby - the smell is now gone and that house is over $2M.
Absolutely, yes. I have a very keen sense of smell and there are some odors that would chase me away. Aside from the chemical stuff, I would pass on a house if I knew that there would likely be frequent activities that would generate particulate matter next door.
But that would be a smell you'd smell when actually IN the house, correct? I understood the question to be more about smells in the neighborhood.
Both in and out. They offered to redo the floors but wouldn't have gotten rid of the outside smell.
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