We have spent most of the day at our holiday flat in Birsay because there was a man coming to value it.
Yes, I have finally decided to sell it. It's been quite fun running it as a holiday let, but it has got to the stage now where I would like the opportunity to go away in the summer if I'd like to and only have the cats to worry about. We'd like our weekends back too; it would be nice to spend sunny Saturdays doing nice stuff together, rather than doing a flat turnaround. And really although 99% of our visitors have been at the least fine, and mostly very nice indeed, and some have been lovely people that I would even have liked to befriend in real life, the other 1% have become much less bearable.
It's a ground floor flat in a 3 storey house and the people who own the top two floors have expressed a vague interest in buying it so that they will then own the whole building. I very much hope that they will buy it privately as that will make the whole thing a lot easier all round, but they wanted a professional valuation on which to base any offer they might make, so that's why we had the man in.
So it's a case of wait and see what happens; if they don't want it, it's going on the open market regardless. I have no sense of current property values in Orkney so I'll be interested to see what the valuer says - here's hoping it's more than we paid for it.
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