Try to keep this short; for context: I am a single parent, 2 children, youngest is disabled. I bought a house October 2023 in an area we don't know, 15 minutes away from the village my children grew up in (I still drive there each day for school/friends) - we were homeless beforehand and this was a house I could afford using a government shared equity scheme (I own 100%, I owe gov 40% share of equity on selling). It meant the boys could stay at the same school, and honestly I had no idea what I was looking at.
We cannot settle. The road is very busy, the house needs so much more work than I had ever imagined, the garden has a long stretch of dangerous crumbling wall, I have to drive to walk the dog, someone came into the back garden last week whilst I was WFH and would not leave and kept knocking on the window (they were very clearly under the influence of something, thank god I was home alone). My eldest who is a teenager and incredibly critical constantly complains about the house. I don't have the thousands needed to totally renovate.
My question is, do I spend anymore money on this place (already 12k of borrowed family money that i have no idea how ill pay back) or do I leave it, save as much as I can and hope the market picks up in a couple of years? I don't even know how to cope with property, I don't know anyone in a similar situation. Has anyone sold and managed to move after using a government scheme to buy? What do need to be mindful of? I don't know who to talk to. Thank you