Heartbreak home: One woman's blow by blow account of what it's like trying to sell a house in the credit crunch

yes folks read it and weep...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... runch.html

Some funny bits throughout. Article is repetitive, bloated and whiny.

That's terrible. "The housing market's weakness is preventing me living way beyond my means". Poor wee lamb.

*dabs eyes*

I can't believe that she is struggling to sell her £550k house. She only wants to buy one worth £400k for goodness sake. What is wrong with this country?? Why isn't Gordon Brown personally doing something to help her? And those poor children, in their private school and with their extra music lessons. Oh won't someone think of the children.

Who would have thought it would be expensive to take kids on a 50-mile round trip to school every day in a BMW X3?



'It's so baffling that other people can't afford to buy a house I can't afford! Surely everyone has £575k kicking around under their mattress?'

The whole article feels like 'look! The economy is so bad that the middle classes are having to deal slightly more with the problems other people face!'. Normal people have to deal with things like trying to buy a house near enough to their kids' school so it doesn't cost them shitloads in petrol, and sometimes have to sell their houses when their relative income goes down. I don't doubt that it's a pain in the arse for her, but ultimately she's finding that, hey, she can't afford to keep a massive house and send her kids to private school on a receptionist's wages, and she's gonna have to move to a slightly less massive house that's still gonna be worth considerably more than what average people live in.

She made silly financial choices, her buyer was a twat and now she's in difficulty. Well, take responsibility, it's surely not nice to be in that situation but it is of your own making. Bet she got a nice payout from the paper and all.

Maybe the mail could give her one of the million 'dream cottages' they seem to own?

Whiney middle-upper class cunt.

Sorry, I think my bitterness at unemployment is impacting upon my socialism gland, making me want to hang whiney bitches who cry about not being able to sell a house, while sending their kids to a private school and having enough spare time to spend down the gym, or crying to the Mail. Never mind those who wont be able to afford food or heating come the winter, when they get "downsized" as basic costs of living rise, oh no...

Come the revolution....

Yeah much agreed with all the sentiments.

Music lessons are a commodity.....Ok it would be great for him to play Cello or violin but why is he doing that, why not guitar or Keyboard why not something that kids use.

Ok Violin can come in handy in bands now but he or she is probably of a better standard that most that play in bands.

But as i said it's all a commodity, they don't need it and i applaud her for downsizing that's a good idea but fuck me the way she moans is so annoying.

Hope her kids disown her when she's older.

I have sympathy and that, I really do. Losing a husband and a father is traumatic.

But doesn't she think that living in a house that big and that expensive while earning £1,500 a month would eventually catch up with her? And at the same time sending your kids to a private school whose feels exceed your entire income for the year? Financial stupidity of the highest order.

It would have been traumatic to make the kids leave their expensive school when their father died, definitely, but eight years down the line? It's not an excuse any more.

Simple, get a better job (astonishingly, there are jobs out there that pay better than £18,000 a year), send the kids to one of those terrible state schools the Mail is always scaremongering about, flog the beamer. Instant savings right there, even if you can't sell the house.

I'm not sure she really deserves much of our sympathy.[/i]

I didn't even notice the '£1,500 a month' stuff at first, that's roughly what I earn and even getting on the housing ladder is a fucking pipe dream at the minute. How she should expect to earn that and live in a £500,000-odd house and send her kids to private school is beyond me.

Whats betting she has a bloody 4 x 4 as well