I thought that even in this markett any property would sell if at thw right price.

[twinsetandpearls]

We have just phoned the estate agent to drop our price again to lower than we paid for it but I thought if that is what has to be done that is what we will do and just tighten our belts a bit further to save whatever we loose. {although the belt is pinching already.

We were advised to put the house on at 155 ( up north) we put it on at 145 to sell, we have dropped anad dropped and were at 129,500 and wanted to go down to 124.500.

The estate agent has done it but his parting words were
"Your house is worth more than that, we sold an identical one recently for 150K, you are pricing yourself too low for your target market and the problem, isnt the price but that no one wants to buy"

I am sure there is some truth in that as we know other people trying to sell who are not even getting viewings, we are getting those at least but the feedback is lovely house but we are unsure of buying or we need to sell ours.

So what do we do? Our savings have all gone, we tried renting it out but
1 it wont cover the mortgage anyway,
2 last time we did this we were rippped of big style and had top redecorate top repair the damage
3 The renting market is flooded
4All that means is delaying while prices drop further
5 we need to buy in a falling market as we are buying up.

God twinset - your sister really is a complete pain in the arse! I can't believe what she has done to you.

Really hope you manage to sell.

I agree buda she sounds a real nightmare and should offer to put it right but families often write their own rule books!

It gets worse, just spoke to my mum who said "By the way the sofas are still there and your sister does not want them" She has some old stained sofas in my front room and has left them there along with lots of boxes. Spoke to sister and said we have a viewing sat you need to get your stuff out. She said I cant do it by Sat, may have time sunday

You are probably right noddy I just know it is not going to go down well with the neighbours.

On the plus side, if the viewer is a serious investor, he/she will be able to see beyond a couple of mouldy sofas but cannot believe that your sister is able to behave like this.

The sofas will be gone as will everything else. But I cant believe it either.

Can someone get the sofas outside and call the council to collect them - most will for a small fee. tbh I'd be inclined to put boxes outside, do you have a shed, or if not one room and tell her collect by a specific time. How does she still have keys if she isn't paying rent ? You need to be careful for insurance purposes as to who has access. I know you want to keep things on a nice footing but she isn't cooperating and needs must.

She had a specific time, she moved out on the 16th feb and had until 16 march to empty her things out.

sorry , no idea how the emoticon got in there . So she has already forfeited her right to retrieving the stuff. If you feel the need tell her she has until Friday night to make good (surely she can go of an evening ) if not, dump it.

You poor thing.

Your sister sounds like a selfish bitch. I know that's not what you want to hear, but maybe it's what you need to hear to begin to deal with her in a way that she needs to be dealt with.

Your mum seems quite keen on helping her out, and letting her not take responsibility for her own actions, maybe your mum would like to remove the scabby sofas and to decorate the house to return it to how it looked when the pictures were taken. Show your sister those pictures and ask her if she thinks it looks like that now. You did say to her that after she painted "if it was not acceptable they would have to paint it back at their own cost."

I'd actually go as far as issuing a small claims court against her, it'll cost you £30, I doubt you'll need to go through with it but show her what would have happened if she'd done that to anybody else's property.

Hear hear to what Justabout said. Wish I could offer practical help. Am so very sorry you're in this dreadful pickle. The rubbish housing market is depressing enough but you must also feel terribly hurt and betrayed by your sister (let alone hopping mad with her) and I really do feel for you, twinset.

We have sold our house for 20% less than the original asking price (June last year). We accepted the price as we had a good offer accepted on our onward purchase. That has fallen through (long story) and now we're worried that we accepted too low a price.

However the fact is that the value is what someone is prepared to pay for it. It's no use saying it's worth more if it stays on the market for 12 months because no one is buying,

I say cut your losses.

Twinset, sorry to hear about your sister, I think she needs to learn a lesson and not get away from it. We have a shortlist of houses in Oxford but they are really uninspiring and we had to compromise on several aspects, including north facing gardens and less bedrooms we wanted, are there any houses for sale in Oxford up to 400k with south facing gardens? It just feels like the worst houses are on the market now while anything half decent is close to 1 million pounds. My DP watched an online auction and a flat in Fulham (quite pricey area of London) that was worth 380 in 2007 sold to 220K, 2001 prices. And the irony is that there were lots of bidders for it.

That is what we are doing fruitstick we have viewing on Sat and according to the estate agent he did not view the house before because he thought there was something wrong with it because it was so cheap so we must be undercutting people.

Thankyou everyone else for your support.