Facebook or eBay?

So how has the first week gone with attempting to sell my house in a pretty lacklustre market gone? Two viewings booked in and featured property on rightmove can't be bad can it? It feels like things are going well, the phrase 'a well oiled machine' springs to mind. House Revolution seem to be working hard for us and have already come up trumps with arranging the two viewings. Very impressive.

The House Revolution website has become my favourite lunchtime website read. No need to check the latest football news anymore when I can log into my account and view a host of stats on how things are going with the house sale. Brilliant. These checks have now become an obsession for my wife, and I am not exaggerating here, as she checks at least once an hour.  

The team at House Revolution have continued to impress, and have offered plenty of support. Even giving us tips on how best to deal with viewings to ensure we show the house off in its best light. My ‘old school' thinking was that baking some bread and having a pot of coffee on the go would help, but apparently people aren't so easily swayed by such things. Unbelievable.

That's enough on the selling front, how is the buying going? Well the reason for putting the house on the market in the first place was because we had already found the ‘family home' we wanted. The kind of home we could see ourselves having plenty of Christmas' and birthdays in. It is a proper grown up home rather than something that could be rented out to students.  We viewed this house at the weekend and like a couple of exited children:

• We put an offer in under the asking price - Not accepted, strike one.  
• We worked out our max bid and swiftly tried again. Not accepted, strike two.
• We haven't had a  - strike three, you're out - yet as we want to wait to go back with a final enhanced offer. An offer that requires our current home to be ‘under offer'.

In the meantime alternatives are being sourced, which is difficult when your heart has already settled on a house. Got to be sensible about these things. The pearls of wisdom from the Stones "you can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes you might find you get what you need" come to mind. Maybe we shouldn't be so fussy and consider houses that don't tick all of the wish list boxes.

So, off we went to viewings of houses in an area that is not our first choice. One houses was nice enough but didn't spark any kind of fondness for it. The second, goodness me what a cracker. Alas not for any good reasons. It was like stepping back in time 40 years,  the place was in desperate need of modernising. A definite no to that.

So not much success with buying, still hoping the first house will come through, just need to get some offers to come in for the current house. Buy hey it is only the first week, fingers crossed the viewings keep happening and the offers start to flow in.

My final thoughts this week, can I sell my house on Facebook and/or eBay? Hmm interesting.