COOP PLACEMENT - Very important

When thinking about where to put your coop - think about the following:

1. Does it get mucky when it rains? (that's a no no)
2. Is there a lot of hot afternoon sun in the summer? (that's a no no)
3. Is it close to your house so that you aren't trekking a distance to feed/collect eggs, etc.? You'll want it close to your most used door.
4. Can you see the coop from the house so you can make quick inspections without trudging outside?
5. Is it an eye-sore for your neighbors (do not underestimate an angry neighbor and the city council)?
6. Speaking of city council - did you get approved? (I did not, but all my neighbors approved and I chose to just not tell the city because we are rural - on three acres, live near farms and it makes absolutely no sense to me that I can have dogs that could bite, rabbits, cats that stray but not chickens and I'm too lazy to fight it at city hall.
7. Is the coop in the path of northern winter winds?
8. Will it shed rain water towards your garage? (see picture - oops)
9. Will your mother-in-law have to look at it every time she stops by and be reminded that her grandchildren may die of salmonella poisoning or is it nicely set aside so as not to be too conspicuous?
10. Is it in an area where your teenage boys like to throw their baseballs, footballs and hockey pucks and sometimes miss and hit the coop, scaring the chickens half to death and denting the very expensive chicken hardware cloth that took you hours to install correctly?
11. Is it near standing water where mosquitoes thrive, making the cleaning and checking an annoyingly loathsome chore?  You won't want to be spraying pesticides around your chickens if you plan on eating those eggs - or perhaps that's just my opinion.
12. Add your own here..... or in the comments below and I'll add them in.