DH inherited a house. We rented it out for a year and now we want to sell to buy a bigger place (it's far too small for our family to live in and way too far away from kids schools).
We just had to pay a few thousand for a new boiler and some general repairs.
And we are paying a fortune in council tax for it (no discounts etc).
We have maxed our overdrafts, and now needing to consider yet another loan to cover the council tax and general fees for overdrafts etc.
That was fine because the cash buyer who's offer we accepted (45k less than the asking price because we are desperate and we think it was slightly over valued anyway) 2 months ago was just days away from exchanging.
Now she found out that all the changes she wanted to make she has to get permission from the council and she isn't happy.
She's pulled out.
We are financially panicking. DH was shaking yesterday and I've never seen him like that.
He's talking to the bank about a loan to consolidate debts (we were fine before this!!!) and have excess to pay the extortionate council tax.
It's back on the market for 50k less than it was originally on for.
Is there any way of pushing this through ASAP??
It's bleeding us dry and we also don't want to lose the place we had put an offer on (and paid out for searches etc).
Help!
((We realise we shouldn't have paid for searches yet but we were about to exchange, searches take an age here and we are renting so all the money is being eaten up by that so we need to reduce the time as much as possible)