ImLivingTheDream

No I'm sure that chairs have energy! I also believe that Elvis is alive and well and living with the 3 legged poisoness gnomes.

sans

are you serious

Judy in Calgary

A few months ago my husband and I watched an old black and white movie about Lourdes. For those who don't know, that is the place in France where Bernadette Soubirous reported that she'd seen Mary who, in turn, is reputed to be the mother of Jesus Christ who, in turn, is reputed to be ....... Well, you probably get the point.

At the time, I was struck by something one of the characters in the movie said. I forget the exact words, but it was something along the lines of, "For those who believe, no proof is required. For those who doubt, no proof is enough."

I'm sure the people on either side of this discussion will never convince each other.

It's okay, Tones. You can let your kids make a right mess. It won't make any difference to your efforts to sell your house.

And what were those Britons on about when they coined the phrase, Cleanliness is next to godliness?

dingbat

Absolutely. Of course. You know me.

sans

Mmmmmmmm i thought i did

Paradisefound

The science of Feng Shui is thousands of years old. Looking at a few pictures and making some common sense comments, is just that, but definitely not Feng Shui. It would take a site visit numerous calculations and hours of analysis to give a complete Feng Shui Report of any property. After years of study and practice and being sought out for advice on millions of pounds of property investments, I thought I was qualified to make a few hopefully helpful comments, especially after most of the usual steps had been tried over a period of 2 years on my partners property resulting in NO SALE.
I sold the property during the same (January - March) time of year you are looking at now.
Unfortunately without any accurate direction measurements and build date for the property, one cannot help further.

"If a doctor makes a wrong diagnosis of a patient, he effects one person. If a Feng Shui Consultant makes a wrong diagnosis of a property he effects all it's inhabitants"

D15NEY

Hi everyone ,

I'm Mrs.Tones btw .


Thanks fgor all your great suggestions. Those of you that have been in our position know how frustrating it can be .

We have removed the extremely large tv from the lounge and put a much more 'homely' sized tv in its place, much to o/h annoyance .

We have also taken down the trampoline. Tbh in my pots outside the front of the house there are flowers but not winter ones , so on your good advice I shall go and purchase some pansies etc to brighten up the front abit. Its hard trying to make the garden look appealing in winter because everything is dead .

Its funny how when we purchased our house it was everything too us, it was where we were going to live forever and we put blood,sweat & tears into it.The lounge (fireplace & reclaimed floor), new kitchen etc etc but now its just a mill-stone around our necks.

vicky

Coffeepot

fantastic pics, house looks staged already, there is another option all be it not brill,
Google, House for cash, theres lots of companies willing to get a bargain, see what they can do as you say you are already dropping the price anything is worth a try and if you count what it will cost and the stress caused by living apart maybe worth the loss ?

hope Ebay goes well very good presentation with floor layout etc

I have an Estate agent coming at 11 so will be in your shoes pretty soon, will ask him what ways we can market anymore tips will pass on

all the best sue

the_tones_guy

Hiya - we did this already, we were offered what we paid for it 5 years ago, made me feel like going round there and giving him a slap.:curse:

Interestingly, I planted the seed with my new boss in Canada to buy it and he actually made me an offer for it yesterday, it was to low though so we are currently negotiating right now.

Fingers crossed for everyone in our situation!!

Cx

mandymoochops

Hello Mrs T, I know exactly what you mean, our house is a converted coach house, blood, sweat, tears and tantrums ensued with that one I can assure you!

Now we just want it gone and I know that dropping the price further (already down by £50k) will attract buyers, but we also don't want to give it away.

So we are going to keep it as is until spring when the market in 'sunny' Wells Next The Sea picks up with the London folk wanting a quaint getaway for the weekend (yep the market is that specialised ) and see what happens.

I see it as all part of the adventure and the old saying "when the time is right" will happen for all in our position.

here's a link to ours again for all those who haven't seen it before!!!

http://www.beltonduffey.com/444.html

Of course its now empty (might get the estate agent round to take some pics of it being empty it might look bigger as it is rather small )

Coffeepot

What a pretty coach house, i love the gazeebo out back, can't believe you haven't sold it yet ?

D15NEY

, ooh, I like it!

Its gorgeous, I know Wells quite well(excuse the pun!) as I come from Norfolk originally.

Gorleston never had quite the same appeal as Wells did though

Good luck with your sale as well

Alison33

Just a thought, have you checked out this site

"How to sell property with or without an estate agent. Everything you need to know about property lawyers, hips, avoiding house repossession, cash homebuyers ..."

www.theadvisory.co.uk

We found them very helpful and chap even gave us a call back to talk us through what we had and hadn't tried - no charge! They can also help with arranging for another agent in your area to come and revalue - this would normally be an agent in your area that is performing better than the rest.

Sometimes you need to take time to look around you and see what other folk with similar properties are selling for and make yours look even better value for money. We had trouble getting the viewings with lots of similar ish houses around us in the same situation although ours is alot bigger. We reduced ours well below any of the others and in so doing new agent managed to get us 8 viewings in just under a week and a half. We set the price as a guide price and were told that this would hopefully create lots of offers (although not guaranteed in this current market). We did get 4 offers after the 1st week and some were appalling but you have to try and live in hope that may cause sealed bids and you can then choose who you want to buy.

We sold a week before xmas and decided although the price was way under what we wanted, the buyers were in a very small chain with 1st timers buying their propery.

Ours is a large semi-det 5 bed with double garage and we sold for £205 - yes it is pretty horrible I know but after watching Tonight with Trevor last night probably glad we did! Nasty bloke on there reckons market could spiral downwards as much as 30% over the next 3 yrs.

Fingers crossed for you. BTW House looks great!

Atlantic Xpat

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I stopped in Wells on a round britain powerboat raid a few years back. The evening was memorable for the very decent beer at the yacht club and the lock in at the pub we were staying at but mainly because the owner of the boat I was on, fell over in said pub and broke his arm that night which left me in charge for the rest of the trip!

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Nice house btw. I imagine it would sell as a holiday home with no problems.

DI5NEY: Gorleston certainly lacks the appeal of Wells. (I grew up near Beccles.)

walkerv05

its suprising how many peaple are i the same boat as you, we have had our house on the market from June 07 , dropped it 7K, changed estate agents, prayed, but still no outcome, my OH may have to sign it over to me if he gets the call to go and ill just have to stay here till it goes
oh well positive thoughts, got a viewing tommorow !