Advice for housing muppet, please

hev_2

I am not very good at this.

When we bought our house, it was a lovely four house street with all owner occupiers. It is a back to back, which means that our back wall is the back wall of the house behind, if you knock a hole in our DS's bedroom back wall you would end up in their living room IYSWIM.

Now, over ten years later, we are surrounded by BTLs. The landlord does not repair his tenant's roofs. We have had drug dealers, thugs, neighbours from hell, the works.

We now want to move, because basically I cannot take much more.

Our house is showing signs of being damp that may be due to now-cleared backed up drains, faulty damp proof, next door's roof (actually all the other roofs in the row, and there is a suspicion that there is rot in the joists at the other end of the row). Or the damp may just be condensation settling down from new windows. There was no damp when we moved in.

So, how the heck to we sell this? That is, for enough to buy more than a dog kennel with subsidence?

Any advice for someone who really does not know what they are doing gratefully received.

Hev

hev_2

Sorry, I thought that this was the best place to ask for advice about selling my house.

Apologies

Hev

amcluesent

> So, how the heck to we sell this?<

Auction. Another BTL mug will snap it up.

hev_2

Sorry, we didn't BTL, we live here.

Thank you for your posts.

Hev

honeypop

wecanhelpu wrote: »

I don't mean to be rude but what the f*ck are you on about?

Don't be put off Hev, someone will be able to help you out, just ignore that one.

CB1979_2

well the old saying of it's only worth what someone will pay for it.

so get it on the market for what it's worth realistically, rather than what YOU need to sell it for.

you may want to buy a better house and try and sell it for £150k, but in reality it's only worth £120k.

unfortunately all these problems will come up in viewings & by the surveyor.

why did you not move earlier?

I'm assuming these undesirables didn't just show up overnight??

strange

hev_2

Actually, I would settle for a house that had less bedrooms/needed more doing/less fixtures.

The neighbours we have now are absolutely wonderful. We have, in the last few years, gone through bereavements, redundancy and then I fell pregnant (and wouldn't trade DS for the world).

With the nice neighbours going, finding out about next doors leaking roof last week, finding out about potentially rotten joists yesterday and MIL's funeral last month, it has finally brought matters to a head. We had kept hanging on in the hope that things would get better because we could really only afford to buy a house for what we sold this for. With new DS that is more true than ever. Put it this way, I have been looking into rental, because I am not sure we will make enough to buy anywhere.

I would just really appreciate advice on how to sell the property, to get anything for it.

Thank you.

Hev

wecanhelpu

Sorry about my earlier post, but yours was a bit strange before you edited it.

What sort of money are we talking about?

CB1979_2

well estate agents/auction/housenetwork.com (to sve on EA fees)

can we have more details area, price you need and what others are selling for?

type of property, etc etc

hev_2

No problem wecanhelpu - the cat got at the keyboard

Well, I think the house may go for 80k, it has four beds and new windows. It was bought 44k in 1990s, after the bust, so we should not lose equity. Is auction the best way to go? Or should we try one of the quick sale agents?

Basically, the closer someone looks, the lower the price. I cannot imagine an owner/occupier wanting to live here now. It is such a shame, because it was so nice when we moved here.

That is the property market, I guess. Whatever happens, we will be moving into rental first, and then buying if we can afford to.

Thank you

Hev

CB1979_2

£80k? wow didn't realise there was still places that cheap (obviously depends on area)

what area are we talking about, how does yours compare with other properties on rightmove, etc?

but if it's priced right it'll sell.

if it's priced at £80k, and you get offered it, just be prepared to get money knocked off once the survey comes back.

if as you say BTL are there now, then no doubt others will want in as well.

you could try contacting the Landlords of the other properties in your street and mentioning to them you're thinking of selling.