The good news is, the real estate lady thinks that we can ask 180k over what we paid for this house based on the increase in the market and (far more so), the work we've done on it. V pleased about this.
There will be a number of things needing to be done in order to make it sellable - alot of painting, alot of finishing of jobs that are not done, some re-carpeting, a massive amount of de-cluttering, and a huge overhall of the garden. While we can do most of this ourselves, I think realistically we'd have to get someone in to do some of it so there'd be immediate cost implications.
The sticking point for me is that in order to get the most out of the market we would need to list this place basically at the same time that the baby comes which is obviously not going to be easy, to say the least. It'd mean having this place completely immaculate, no clutter, no mess, not one hair out of place..... with guests staying. Which I don't think is particularly viable, really. So I guess we'd have to aim to do it at the beginning of June..... or mid July (by which point the market will have slowed).
I dunno if I need the stress along with a new baby.
But the houses are so very tempting. And staying in this house another year is so not very tempting.
Posted by katie at March 10, 2007 10:00 PM