Advise those who want to buy the first floor with a yard friends, think twice before acting, talk about my views, I hope to help you!
Buying a house is a major life event, you must know how to weigh the pros and cons, comparison shopping, now a set of houses can easily hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars, for the young people just graduated from the workforce is a heavy burden, even if you can buy, but also to empty the parents' savings, even for the middle-aged people who have a successful career, the change of the house can not be impulse, every time you buy a house to consider the environment of the community, the surrounding The first thing that you need to do is to consider the neighborhood environment, the surrounding facilities and services, the children have to consider going to school, the elderly have to consider the hospital and the food market, so the more the location of the house, the higher the price is also higher!
Tell me about my home buying experience, are experience and lessons learned
After I graduated from college and worked for five years, only to save up a sum of money, coupled with the help of my parents, only to scrape together enough money for the down payment of a set of 33-story penthouses, the reason why I chose the penthouses, because there is no choice, the idea was that the area should be large, the price should be low, and to choose the school district housing, the shyness of the I can only live in with my daughter-in-law, and I have to live in, the first thing I want to do is to make sure that I have a good home, but I don't know what to do. I did not expect to live in the top floor of the time ate all the pain, and finally sold at a reduced price lost a lot to change hands, in my purchase of the second house, did enough homework, this time vowed to choose a low-rise homes, the sales office of my friends told me:
They have a set of hands with a garden on the first floor of the type of garden, the garden is free of charge, you can build a sunroom or small gardens, very suitable for the home has the elderly and the children live! I'm not sure if you're going to be able to do that!
I compared the pros and cons of a penthouse and a first-floor home. I have a large family, and my relatives often come and go, and my parents are farmers who came to the city to help us bring up our children, so I'm not used to the high-rise buildings, but if I live in a first-floor home with a small garden, I can let my parents grow some vegetables, build a pavilion, and raise pets. These are the reasons why I chose this house with a yard on the first floor!
Some of my friends said, "If you're poor, don't buy a house with a yard on the first floor!
In fact, this sentence is also relative, not absolute, the first floor with a yard house type is very popular in the hearts of some friends, but in the eyes of some friends do not like, many people when they first buy this type of house are running to be able to have an independent space, travel is more convenient, more yearning for freedom, but the first floor with a yard house really has many problems, if you can solve these problems. Or do not care about these problems, then you can boldly choose, below, we discuss together!
The following represents only personal opinion, the north and south are different, the neighborhood environment is different, the quality of the residents is different, please friends distinguish!
Problem 1: living on the first floor is difficult to ensure privacy
In the dense traffic in the neighborhood, the first floor tenants face the biggest problem is privacy, a lot of people will unconsciously to the first floor tenants of the home to look at the two eyes, intentionally or unintentionally, always let a person have a feeling of being peeped at, even with a small garden, the limited distance is also made to feel that it is not enough to protect the privacy of the people, so when we After moving into the first floor, then in the living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom are installed curtains or frosted cellophane, do so many protective measures, or very necessary!
I remember one time, the sun was shining, I had nothing to do, I moved to a chair in the garden tanning, only half an hour, I heard the phone has been ringing, my daughter-in-law called to reprimand me, how do I sunbathe on their own can not do? Later, my daughter-in-law said that I was photographed by the neighbors, sent to the community owners group, I was collectively denounced, alas, really bad luck!
I rushed to take a look at the cell phone, sure enough, the group said I have what, some people say I really bold, angry I decided to quit the owners group!
After this incident also reminded me, even in my own home garden, still do not get a guarantee of privacy, fortunately I am men, if it is a daughter-in-law in this sunbathing can be a problem, but also need to be on guard at all times to be intentional people take pictures, there is no way, I will be removed from the original pavilion, planted some vegetables, paved tiles, and spent a lot of money!
When I lived on the first floor, I had to pull the curtains at night, my daughter-in-law checked very carefully for fear of someone, and I was even more afraid when I took a bath, and the frosted wallpaper was plastered tightly, and my heart was always unsettled!
Problem two: planting plants and flowers, summer feels like "animal world"
My home is in the north, I do not know if my friends in the south have encountered such a problem. Summer time, because I planted some vegetables in the small garden, weeds grow very lush, in front of the front in addition to a few grass, and then simply do not care, in August, when the grass is the most dense, mosquitoes, especially more mosquitoes, mosquitoes attached to the glass at night, looking at the densely populated is very scary, as long as the house a light, not a moment later, there are a lot of mosquitoes fly to.
Sometimes, from the outside into the house, a little careless, will put in a few mosquitoes, to the small garden of the door, the night time simply do not dare to open, for fear of inviting in mosquitoes, for this reason, I had to re-customize the screen, as long as the mosquitoes come in, this night do not want to sleep well!
In order to run this small garden, from cultivating the land, turning the soil, rows of ridges, sowing seeds, weeding, every link is our family personally, what vegetables on the market do not have? What kind of vegetables can we find in the market? Do we have to go through all this trouble? In the small garden gardening, seems to be very idyllic and beautiful, in fact, the disadvantages outweigh the advantages, waste of time and energy, we work is not at home, only the parents more labor!
A friend from the south told me that living in the south of the first floor need to face the animal world is more spectacular, rats, cockroaches also appear, especially rainy and humid weather, in the bathroom can often see cockroaches, this insect day and night, contaminated food, think of it is very scary!
Problem 3: rainy and humid days, the siding back to water and mold
I live in this neighborhood belongs to the townhouse, a ****7 floors, the facilities are still good, and it is in the north, at best, it is July-August when the rainy season will be a little humid, but the overall wet phenomenon is not serious, but one of my friends in the south said he lived on the first floor when he was faced with a very serious problem of humidity!
Particularly in the south of the return to the south, indoor decoration if it is scraping the form of white, it will only be a piece of falling wallpaper, indoor decoration if it is the form of wall tiles, the surface will form a layer of water droplets, drying clothes for half a month can not be dry, sleep at night when the quilt is wet feeling!
Problem four: the first floor of the street, the driveway affects the normal work and rest
My family's townhouse on the first floor with a small yard is the street type, the daytime when the cars come and go, to the evening around 7:00 p.m. vehicles can be a little less, and occasionally sleep late at night time, but also outside the sudden sound of the honking horns woke up, the parents are older, can not stand the shock, live in a room that is the furthest away from the street of the second bedroom, and the street is the most important thing to do. Even so, it is not as quiet as the countryside, and after half a year has passed, they are clamoring to go home!
In the morning, there are many walks, morning exercise, square dance crowd, the quality of these people is uneven, if it is a quiet walk through it, even if, I'm afraid of the kind of riding a car horn on the loud music playing people, really noisy we can not sleep!
Problem five: insufficient indoor light, decoration style to bright system-based
In our north, winter time darkness is relatively early, about 5 pm or so will be dark, back home from work need to turn on the lights, because it is on the first floor, the lighting is not very good than the upper floors, indoor cooking, rest need to turn on the lights, and we are in order to protect the privacy and to prevent mosquitoes from biting, special change of the sealing We have changed the sealing windows and curtains to protect privacy and prevent mosquito bites, which further leads to dim light!
I remember one weekend, when I was planning to take a nap at noon, I woke up in a daze and found that the indoor light was very dark, and I came to the living room and felt that it was cloudy, and I looked at my cell phone and saw that it was only 3:00 p.m., but I was given a feeling that it was already late in the evening! Children and the elderly living in this light, whether it is cooking or writing homework, will be affected, a long time to turn on the lights, and will be a waste of electricity, can not afford to turn on the lights, it will have an impact on eyesight!
Issue 6: anti-theft security, can not be ignored
Living on the first floor or not, the second floor or not, regardless of whether there is a small garden, anti-theft security can not be ignored, and can not be taken with a grain of salt, if the entire community of first-floor tenants have installed anti-theft windows, only you do not have the installation of this one, if an accident occurs, too late to regret! Especially if you are often out of the house, but not at home, it is important to pay attention to anti-theft security!
Of course, anti-theft security is also related to the community's facilities, community property is responsible for, morning and evening are patrolling, the camera is also more, if it is the kind of old neighborhoods, or along the street, the chances of being stolen to be a little bigger, so, think about everything in the front, the crisis will be intercepted in the nip in the bud!
Many people say, I do not install security windows, simply too ugly, people live in it, there is no freedom, this matter should be viewed separately, indeed, in order to consider the aesthetics, who do not want to install security windows, but for security, security windows are still very necessary!
Problem 7: the occurrence of overhead throwing, the need to pay attention to safety, but also regularly clean up the health
Some upstairs neighbors have low quality, often intentional or unintentional to the downstairs to throw things, small garbage bags, bottles of mineral water, large tables, chairs and benches are possible, every year there will be an overhead throwing injuries occurred in the news, so the construction of the sunroom, can have a shelter is still very important!
And the other thing is that the sunroom is not a shelter for the people!
In addition, my family's first-floor garden is along the street, every day, cars come and go, dust, especially in spring and autumn, the north of the less rain, dust will be the garden vegetation and masonry, wooden fences are muddy, which requires regular cleaning to clean, in addition, if the upstairs neighbors are always dropping things, but also to collect the garbage once a regular basis!
Some first-floor residents like to raise some poultry in the yard, it looks quite a living atmosphere, but over time, poultry excrement produced by the dirty environment and smell, will inevitably cause the surrounding neighbors disgust, and even complaints to the property, on the one hand, need to resolve neighborhood disputes, on the one hand, but also to solve the environmental damage caused by the garden of the family's own poultry, for the sake of this bite of meat, it is really not worth it. It's not worth it, you might as well go to the food market and buy ready-made ones!
The above is my experience when I live on the first floor, the beginning of the time really happy, still fantasizing about the summer when you can sit in the small courtyard under the gazebo drinking tea and chatting and watching the stars, in fact, the number of times really limited from the vegetable garden converted into a gazebo, and then changed into a sunroom, during the period of time each time to change a lot of money, although I said so many drawbacks, but live on the first floor of the room with a garden, and is not Nothing, the following to see live in a house with a garden on the first floor, what are the benefits, so that the advantages and disadvantages of a comparison, and then make a decision:
Advantages of one: travel is more convenient, the space is more free
My parents are accustomed to living in a bungalow of the authentic farmers, the beginning of the first time I bought a high-level, so that my parents come to help me with the children, really a hundred reluctance to come! After the building is really very uncomfortable, neighbors do not know, in addition to buying food is a snail at home, go too far for fear of losing, and then moved to the first floor of the situation has changed, there is a small courtyard, the area has increased a lot of parents can be free to go in and out of the house, smiles a lot more, but also made a lot of old friends living in the lower floors of the tenants, we are about to go to the dance together, together to go for a walk in the first floor to live in a cottage with the countryside is almost the same! The first floor is similar to a bungalow in the countryside!
Advantage 2: no need to squeeze the elevator
When I used to live on the 33rd floor, I needed to squeeze the elevator with everyone at work every day, and when I encountered a large number of people, I was really exhausted and wasted my time on the road for nothing, and I even faced a situation where the elevator was out of service, so I had to either wait for the elevator, or climb up the stairs to go home, and for the elderly parents, it was actually uncomfortable to sit in the elevator, and I didn't know how to press the buttons in the beginning, and then I was taught step by step to take the elevator. Later, step by step, they were taught to ride the elevator!
But even after learning how to ride the elevator, my parents were afraid of heights, perhaps because they were used to living in a bungalow, and had a fear of elevators that went up and down!
When you come to live on the first floor, you don't have to worry about the fear of heights and the problem of crowding the elevator anymore, you can come and go as you please, and you don't have to pay the elevator fee, so you can save the money!
Advantages three: free small garden
Different developers, different neighborhood environment, the first floor of the complimentary garden area is also different, some small garden is a dozen square feet, dozens of square feet, some of the larger ones can reach 100 square feet, if you like to grow vegetables, raise some flowers and plants, or cats and dogs pets, in the case of the garden area is large enough, you can play to their heart's content, but also to build a pond! Raise fish, in the big city, can have a separate space, this is how many people dream of the existence of ah!
The above three points are
But if the supporting facilities can't keep up, and face problems of privacy, security, hygiene, noise, light, humidity and so on, then the living experience will be as bad as, like me, lived for three years, regretted for three years!
Written in the end
Some people say: no more poor do not buy a floor with a yard room! In fact, this sentence is not absolute, different climates in the north and south, housing experience is different, because the north is mostly geothermal and heating, warm in winter and cool in summer, dry and less rain, living in the north of the first floor with a garden housing type is still more enjoyable, but if you are in the south of the rainy, mosquitoes and insects in the city, living in the first floor with a yard house, the problems encountered will be more!
Everything is not absolute, I am in the district facilities on the general, the quality of the neighborhood is also general, in the first floor with a garden in the house to live in the past few years, really can not talk about enjoy the word!
Now I put the listing on the agent for a few months and no one asked for it. I didn't realize that it would be so difficult to sell a house with a small garden on the first floor!
If it does change hands, next time I'm going to buy a walk-up 3-5th floor and never touch the first floor again!