She's trying to force the price down, surely?
Thats why the FGT's plan is so effective. No shed, no boat, undercuts her plan.
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Help! This house is a millstone round my neck.
(12 Posts)Will your husband sell?
You say it is in his name.
Do you have financial Power of Attorney set up, in view of his cognitive impairment?
You could phone the local sailing club for advise on selling the boat.
The first thing I would do would be to get in touch with the solicitor who dealt with the purchase of the house as you need to be sure about the shed before you go ahead with any sale of the house.
I would ignore what the mother is saying as she is probably trying to find a way to negotiate on the selling price.
I know what it is like owing a HH but our management co. were very good and always made sure that the house was ready to let at any time. Cost a lot of money when anything did go wrong and we never made a penny out of the lets but we did have lots of wonderful holidays there.
See your solicitor that’s my advise and don’t listen to the mother. I’m sorry you had to sell your dream home.
Sorry, I know this is serious CoolMaximus but yearsxago I read “One of the happiest days of your life is when you buy a boat - only bested by the day you sell it!” 😁
Safer to dismantle the shed and have it removed so there can be no protracted legal goings ons.
Try and sell the boat through the nearest Irish boatyard?
The shed was put up by DH after we bought the house. We have the plans which are never very precise re boundaries, but to all intents and purposes the shed is our side of the boundary- there is a demarcation line down the drive, but no fence.
We have a solicitor and estate agent, though I don’t know much about how to go about selling a boat. I’m doing my best to get out of it all but it looks to me as if she’s trying to jeopardise our potential sale.
I agree. Get out of it. Everything has a price and money is only form of currency. Peace of mind, freedom, no more hassle..it's all worth paying.
Good luck x
What a predicament. I agree with FGT.
cut your losses and make it happen. You’ll feel so much better when that weight has been lifted. Good luck.
The first thing I would do is get onto the solicitor who managed the purchase (and presumably holds the deeds). They should be able to tell you what's what, in my experience.
It’s good to vent sometimes CoolMaximus and I’m sorry for your troubles.
You want out and I don’t blame you.
Cut your losses to make it happen asap. I would.
Dismantle the shed.
Sell the boat.
See a solicitor.
Then an estate agent.
Is my advice for what it’s with.
It’s what I would do anyway.
The meddlesome mother who is also the Director of the Management Company sounds a right piece of work.
Take the wind out of her sails and crack on. Be determined that you are doing everything you possibly can to facilitate a sale of this White Elephant and get your money back in a bank.
Good luck!
I may not get any sympathy here because the house in question is a holiday home. In my defence I used an inheritance from my DF to buy a cottage in North Yorkshire with DH about 20 years ago. At that time DH had his own business and couldn’t take much holiday so it was a way for us to have short breaks only an hour from home.
I loved it and considered moving there for retirement, but after DH sold his business shortly before lockdown he seemed to have a personality change. He said he felt he didn’t fit in there and started obsessing about buying a property on the lake back in Northern Ireland where he comes from, and where he could sail.
At the time things were bad and I thought we might break up and even if not I welcomed the idea of him being away from the family home if he was in Ireland sailing.
We sold the cottage in Yorkshire and as prices are a lot lower in Northern Ireland we used the money to buy a large house overlooking a lake on a holiday complex in Fermanagh. I also had enough money to put in a new kitchen and renovate the family home. The house in Northern Ireland was put in to DH’s name for tax purposes as we thought we might rent it out.
Things haven’t worked out though. DH has been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment which might explain his personality change. It may or may not develop into dementia but at present he is functional but has not wanted to come to Northern Ireland without me, and the boat he bought remains unused. Our children don’t want to holiday there unless I pay for their travel because it is a long, expensive journey and the weather is often poor.
It costs us several thousand pounds in bills and site maintenance every year. Every time we come there is an issue - last year there was a leak, this time the boiler broke down. I have now got him to agree to sell it, but everything moves at a snail’s pace here and it’s all down to me to sort out.
We thought we had a perfect solution in that the daughter of one of the people who runs the management company wanted to buy it but it turned out after stringing us on for a month she couldn’t raise the money. Someone else may be interested but this morning the mother of the girl who wanted to buy it came round. She is also a director of the management company. She raised an issue about boundary lines and whether our shed was on next door’s land. I am enraged - now we know there may be an issue it could jeopardise any possible sale and I can’t understand her motive- is she trying to delay everything until her daughter can raise the money? I said that as far as I was concerned the shed was on our land. She said she would get a surveyor to look into it. WHY?- what business is it of hers, the house next door was sold last year and presumably if it was a problem it would have come up then.
The worse thing is that DH doesn’t understand the issue, he keeps repeating that she gave him permission to put up the shed. It will be down to me to sort out, I’m fed up, I didn’t want this house and it was bought with my money from my inheritance.
I think I just have to suck it up - has anyone got any advice?
Good just to vent though.
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