We own our lovely home in an area where unemployment is high. DH has always been self employed and has always had enough work to keep us going although we are in a fair amount of unsecured debt due to him having an accident a few years ago and not being able to work.
Thing is now work has dried up for him. Over the last few months he's earnt hardly anything and we've had to sell stuff to get by. I work but don't earn much at all, I am looking for something else but jobs here are hard to come by. We are really starting to panic. We haven't missed a payment on our mortgage yet and have about £50k equity in our home. DH wants to try and sell and move somewhere where employment prospects for him will be better and he can get a regular job instead of self employment. He's a qualified HGV driver but work for that profession where we are is non existent. We would clear our debt, have money left and hopefully be somewhere where we could earn again but would have to rent as credit rating means we wouldn't get a mortgage. Problem is my dcs love their home, school and friends. I know a house is only bricks and mortar but they are so settled and happy and have lived here all their lives. We couldn't keep this place and rent it as we wouldn't have enough funds to move. I really don't know how much longer we can go on living week by week without enough work. The house also needs some minor repairs which we can't afford. We have nothing left to sell.....except the house 