I would really like some help and advice on what to do about my current property.
Background: It's a 4 bed property, worth about £550K. In the area we live you don't get much back for doing up a house so any improvements we make would be for us, and we would hope to break evenish but will probably make a loss. When we bought it, we were looking for absolutely ages...around a year. We needed somewhere with more space and where my husband and son could commute from. Also wanted somewhere away from motorway noise as it drives me mad (bit of a problem in the area where we were looking). Found this place and we had looked at many other on the same road, ticked a lot of boxes, we liked the house, and no motorway noise....or so we thought!
Anyway, since moving in about 4/5 yrs ago, there is motorway noise which has got much worse since some bugger illegally cut down a load of trees. Somedays it's not there, some days its loud enough to hear in the house with the windows shut. It's there most days. I am desperately trying to live with it but not sure I am succeeding.
In addition to road noise, husband has massive commute so basically don't see him in the week. I am not well, so out of action a lot of the time and have also taken on a new job (doing something I've always wanted to do) which is good but another pressure as I am training, and trying to learn while feeling unwell. Oh and I haven't mentioned the biggy which is that house is falling apart/like a building site!
We had decided to try to sell it and move up the train line to somewhere hopefully quieter and nearer to DH's work. This would be somewhere smaller. However, in the 8 months I've been looking at properties (just online), only ONE has come up that we would consider/could afford and looks to be far enough away from roads/train lines etc to get rid of that issue, but near enough to a train station that DH's commute would reduced. Also, house needs a lot of work just to get it to saleable. We have a leaking roof, that two tradesman and DH cannot seem to fix, bathroom needs redoing, bathroom window needs replacing. Downstairs loo had a leak (floor and toilet need replacing), and basin is coming off wall. Kitchen is on its last legs and if we are here even another year, it will need redoing. Once we start redoing all this, we will need to level the uneven floors. House is freezing in winter so DH has said if we are here another winter he wants to put it a couple of new rads and a woodburner and replace at least some of the windows. Work needs doing on staircase....the list goes on and on.
So, it will cost thousands to get the place saleable and keep it liveable while we do all of that, and then thousands to sell up and move.
OR, do we just say we are staying, put up with the commute and the road noise, and do the place up as we want it which would include extending (so more money but not sure that much more than all of the above).
I keep wavering and driving DH mad. He doesn't notice the road noise and would put up with the commute although he is exhausted most of the time.
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MiniMum97 · 24/07/2017 17:03
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