Time to say goodbye

Lately I have been struggling with my motivation to continue with Canalside Homes, and I have been increasingly despondent about making it flourish.

I tried placing some ads on Facebook, but I received quite a bit of backlash and no new subscribers. Then last night someone commented, "Website is a con. Nothing different to what I can find on Rightmove." It was the final straw.

I have now made the difficult decision to close Canalside Homes down. This is undoubtedly the best time to do it, because I have had a lot of cancellations over the last few weeks anyway, as people have paused their house hunting for the winter. I am working just as hard, for less money.

Today I have blocked new subscriptions on the website, and in a moment I will cancel all subscription renewals. I will then need to decide whether to:

• continue for a few more weeks until most/all subscriptions have lapsed, or
• or stop altogether and make automatic pro-rata refunds

Thank you all for your amazing support, I wouldn't have got this far without you.

And I wish you well with your future house hunting.