well, I had to contact him today about the house. He sent me a text complaining about how much every thing is costing him.

What I really wanted to say was...

"you should have thought about all this before you walked away and made promises you couldn't keep..."

but I refrained from doing so on this occasion. He was very sharp when he called me (a phone call in reply to a text, resulting in a voice mail message and a second call back) however I was calm and civil and he became somewhat pleasanter. Even got a take care when we finished the call.

Selling houses in the US I believe is somewhat different to the UK. And we are selling in an area that is no where near economic recovery and prices are not improving. There are properties near us that have been on the market 2/3 times longer than ours one has just sold that was on the market when we bought ours 6 years ago - it has been empty and unsold all that time.