Sad about selling up

propertyhunter

It is sad selling up. It really hits me when the place is empty and becomes an echo chamber, like the life has already left it. 

I take the fond memories with me, and try to focus on the reasons why I had to make the next step. 

JGB1955

I come from a 'service' family so my childhood was spent moving house every 3 years (if you were lucky) or 12 months (more likely).  We are now in house #3.  We've been in house #3 for 36 years.  I don't hate it, but I certainly don't love it.  It's served its purpose as a family home and, if my husband was to die before me, I'd be off to one of those swanky flats in the nearby docks in a minute.  He really doesn't get it... but 'hey-ho'!

Flick85

My therapist likes to say that all change, even change that is ultimately for the better, comes with a loss of something.

I’m really sad about leaving the flat I’ve lived in for 12 years. But, am also excited for what’s to come.

bexybest

My last house I was very sad to leave as it held so many memories, but it just wasn't big enough.

However the house before that I was desperate to sell, due to bad neighbours.

In hindsight I much much preferred the feeling of the former.

Slinky

propertyhunter said:

It is sad selling up. It really hits me when the place is empty and becomes an echo chamber, like the life has already left it. 

I take the fond memories with me, and try to focus on the reasons why I had to make the next step. 

It was very sad for me leaving our previous home. On the Friday before, I attended the funeral of a dear friend, taken way too young. On the Tuesday we moved I said goodbye to a neighbour who had become a very good friend, a substitute mother, who died unexpectedly from cancer only 6 months later and I never saw her again after the day we moved. I can still picture her waving me off. Didn't realise then I'd never see her again.

newsgroupmonkey_

Quite honestly, right at this moment, ours is being valued ready to put up for sale.

I'm gutted. But at the same time, it enables us to move to another area, nearer the coast.

I'm convincing myself it's the right move (and definitely the right move for the wife), but there's this nagging doubt....

My neighbours are great, we have a drive with parking.

In fact, the only downside is that the neighbours family keep blocking my drive, because they don't like parking more than 10m away and a guy who lives a couple of streets away blocks the cul-de-sac parking with his truck.

AskAsk

i always feel sad when i sell a property, even if i have never lived in it, let alone one that i had lived in!

scottishblondie

I felt very sad selling our last house!  It was the first place my husband and I lived together, where we brought our first child home to.  It had a lot of happy memories attached to it.  But the time was right to move on.

bargainbetty

When I put my old flat on the market, I felt weird for a while. It only really stopped when I agreed a sale with a young couple who were going to live there as their first home, rather than to someone who just wanted to slap magnolia paint everywhere and rent it to the first person with a deposit. 

It was knowing that it would still be a home and was an investment in their future that made it easier to close the door behind me. 

newsgroupmonkey_

bargainbetty said:

When I put my old flat on the market, I felt weird for a while. It only really stopped when I agreed a sale with a young couple who were going to live there as their first home, rather than to someone who just wanted to slap magnolia paint everywhere and rent it to the first person with a deposit. 

It was knowing that it would still be a home and was an investment in their future that made it easier to close the door behind me. 

As someone who rented for a long time, just because somewhere is being rented out doesn't stop it a home.