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Help with preparing to move home after 25 years

Julia

Hi everyone,

I'm feeling very unsettled at the moment after a month of knowing that the house I've lived in for 25 years is being sold. I'm in a studio flat (so combined bedroom, living room and kitchen).

It has been only my second place to live since leaving home in my 20's (because my parents needed to move) - my first place was a bedsit.

I've viewed a place that I like and waiting to hear if I've been shortlisted.

Yesterday was an emotionally, as well as physically, exhausting day for me as I did lots of preparation for the estate agents to photograph my flat - only to have them refuse to take the phones I would be comfortable with having on public. The ones they took were of my belongings which I don't want on display as it's an invasion of my privacy.

Any advise on how to cope with the coming few days - as things could move quickly and I need to be ready.

On the other hand, in a few days, I may not be successful and I will have to deal with another anti-climax of staying where I am with visitors coming to see my flat during the week.

Julia

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  • moving is impossible these days.... not sure where you live, but im from north west england and im trying to move from my parents house ive lived in for 32 years and i cant... all the houses are taken by landlords or investment companies as soon as they are listed so you cant get a house as they get taken before your enforced viewing and you get out offered anyway... then by desperation i try to look at rental market that i swore id never do and never rent, only to find its impossible to get a rental place because none are listed they are all taken too leaving only the 1200 per month rent places, which is too expensive as minimum wage only gets me like 1300 per month lol

    social housing? tried before  never got anywhere with that for years and they fixed my need for housing by kicking me off the list by force and ignoring me and pretending my case was solved lol

    housing is impossible here in north west england.... if you are to lose a flat and need one quick then i dont see how its possible as theres literally nowhere to move to and nothing available at all. 

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  • moving is impossible these days.... not sure where you live, but im from north west england and im trying to move from my parents house ive lived in for 32 years and i cant... all the houses are taken by landlords or investment companies as soon as they are listed so you cant get a house as they get taken before your enforced viewing and you get out offered anyway... then by desperation i try to look at rental market that i swore id never do and never rent, only to find its impossible to get a rental place because none are listed they are all taken too leaving only the 1200 per month rent places, which is too expensive as minimum wage only gets me like 1300 per month lol

    social housing? tried before  never got anywhere with that for years and they fixed my need for housing by kicking me off the list by force and ignoring me and pretending my case was solved lol

    housing is impossible here in north west england.... if you are to lose a flat and need one quick then i dont see how its possible as theres literally nowhere to move to and nothing available at all. 

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  • in reply to Caelus

    i also tried to look for canal boats as alternate housing, which wont be ideal as i wont have a fixed address and thus will likely lose any future pension or human rights without a address maybe even my job and bank account.... but yeah, cant even get a canal boat, everyone brought them up and moved them way down south to london leaving none in the north for me to buy, and the ones down south they list at like 200k now when they was only meant to be 10k lol londoners ruin everything too