incognito13

Whatever

dunroving

I wasn't trying to make light of whatever your situation was/is, just trying to wheedle some more details out of you.

Obviously, you don't need to tell your story if you don't want to, but take a look at the Over 40's thread and you'll see a community of old farts who have shared all sorts of experiences of moving back (or wanting to). It makes the experience of being a BE-er more meaningful.

Mummy in the foothills

You don't need to be nearly 70 to feel that way. I was physically ill getting it all done too and lost a load of weight from the stress, we had a 45 day escrow and really didn't know what was happening till the last two weeks. Then it was all go.

feelbritish

Well you are lucky you have lost weight, I am putting it on and on with the stress! It seems our house is overpriced and prices are falling some more so we are very worried! Absolutely no interest at all whatsoever and it is looking so beautiful at the moment! As we are retiring what we get for the house plays a huge roll on our future!

between two worlds

Oh dear, good luck feelbritish! Do hope some eager buyer appears soon.

Editha

I hope you find a buyer soon. Last year ours was on the market for several weeks before we got a buyer. But, although we did not get the asking price, we hadn't expected to and we were content with the price we did get. So hopefully you'll have a buyer soon.

michali

Good luck with the sale!

feelbritish

Thanks for the wishes, we are just going to sit it out for the summer, working our jobs and keeping it all ship shape! All it takes is one person to buy it

sallysimmons

Please don't take this the wrong way, but reduce the house price now! If you know it's over-priced, it will never sell.

Much better to ask a realistic price and get a sale, than to ask for too much and still be there in a year.

I do understand about needing as much money as possible to have a good life here, but if the house is over-priced, it will never sell and you won't have anything.

I had this exact conversation with someone here the other day - her house has been up for sale for 2 years and she refuses to drop the price, even though she knows it's too high. I just don't understand it.

fulwood

Yes the market is going to dictate price and what sellers will pay. About 7 years at height of housing madness I had my house at 235k. I had only one offer of 185k. Stupid me turned it down. And you know what I would have cleared 80k profit...dumb dumb dumb. houses were overpriced at time and so was mine. fast forward to 2012 when sold within 4 days but different market different times. House up for sale at 127k and got offer close to that. I took it like a shot. I made a profit of about 11k. So price it to sell. It's just a house. Millions more on the market.

dunroving

Yes, a house is only worth what someone will pay for it. Simple principle but people tend to lose sight of it.

feelbritish

Thanks Sally for your thoughts. This was our idea too and when we had the feedback last week from other realtors we immediately dropped the price and also requested a sign which we did not have. Now we wait and see!

feelbritish

Fulwood, we are nervous also about low ball offers but we have spoken to quite a few people who have said that often the first offer is the best offer! We are not desperate though but once you make your mind up to go you just want to get on with it!

sallysimmons

We put our house up for less than the realtor said it was worth, and then we got an offer a bit lower than that on the first day. We pushed back and they added a few thousand but they were at their limit. They seemed like nice people, so we said yes, but further viewings took place while they were having surveys done.

20 people came through - not one offer!

Luckily the surveys were fine and the buyers went ahead. Now that we look back on it, I think 'could we have got $20,000 more?' I have no idea, but I know that we're happy here and I'm glad we didn't hang around.

As an aside, the buyers are coming to visit Yorkshire and Cumbria next week and they're staying with us for the evening! How odd is that?

Editha

I've always put my house on the market with the assumption that I'll be accepting an offer below the asking price. Usually I'll go with up to 10% below.
My experience is that it doesn't pay to hold out for the highest price you think you can get.