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My partner (common law) and I are seniors, gta. He’s 75, I’m 60. He has two grown kids from a previous marriage, I don’t have any kids. His kids don’t really have much of a relationship with me. They’re not kind people. I try to be polite and cordial but keep my distance.
I think a lot about my future as I get older. If my partner goes first I’ll be all alone in life. I’ll grow old alone and will likely die alone. I’ve been financially secure. House paid off, and I likely won’t be able to spend all my money in my lifetime. I don’t have anyone to leave my estate to. And I think about the possibility of later in life having a young couple who don’t own a home, move in with me as renters, and I’d pay them to take care of me and my property. And if it all worked out and we all grew to love each other I’d leave my estate to them.
It would be my way of giving a young couple a good start in life. They’d learn compassion and respect for the elderly. I’d get the safe care I need. And I’d feel good that the person who was there for me at the most vulnerable time in my life inherited my estate.

Now to my question. If you’re a young person, could you see yourself doing something like that? What would be your concerns?

If you’re not a young person, what advice would you have for me or a young person considering such a scenario.

I’m just playing this out in my head to see if it would be a rational thing to consider later in life.

Is anyone else getting virtually no viewings when trying to sell a condo in Seattle? We have dropped our price 75k a 100k less than what we bought it for in 2019 easily one of the best priced units in the city and just shocked that no one has even come to look at it let alone give an offer. Wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing the same?

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Our single family home went on market two weeks ago with only 10 showings (weekend 1). Our realtor wanted to start at a high number (500,000), but we've had no offers or showings this past week. We lowered price 15k to see if market would respond, still no offers.

Plot twist, our neighbors across the street just came on the market only they listed 40k lower than ours (445k). Their blueprint is almost identical. Main differences --A house (ours) has larger yard, extra full bath; B house (neighbor's) has renovated kitchen, small bump out with heated floors, slightly larger square footage (100sq ft more). B house open house is Friday.

Advice needed here --> what should our strategy be? We were hoping to move states by June/July 2026. Our current realtor doesn't seem to have any strategy and isn't giving us any helpful advice or insight, just following our lead. Should we stay firm and hope B house escalates, or do we go low to get into a competitive range (drop 20 or 30k down to 465k/455k)? Will we be risking sitting and looking overpriced and stale if we do not lower before this coming Friday morning? This is our first house sale, so any advice or similar experience would be helpful to us

Extra context: market dipped weekend after we went live. Most houses in our surrounding neighborhoods price dropped after first weekend when we lowered ours 15k.

We have good relationship with our neighbors so we don't want to be jerks, but we do want to sell sooner rather than later.

Thanks in advance!

Edit: First, thank you for all the advice. We’ve clearly made mistakes and trying to learn from it. Adding some info:

House A 3Bd/2.5bath 1900sqft (also has screened in porch ~100sqft)

House B 3Bd/1.5bath 2000sqft

Before we went to market, our initial list price was a little above the estimates online and comps. Recent comps now are around 455-470 (with an outlier at 494) and were all on market less than 2 weeks.

In addition to undercutting us, we do think house B expects a bidding war.

Our agent has not received any valuable feedback from any of the showings.