Jennie Bailey’s friends thought she was “bonkers” when she told them she was raffling her family’s £325,000 home for £5 a ticket.
Her family has lived in what was originally their holiday home for two-and-a-half years after deciding to swap their lives in Manchester for the “slower pace” of the seaside village of Rhoscolyn on Anglesey.
But the two-bedroom flat is becoming a bit of a squeeze for Jennie, her husband John, 45, their sons Harry, 11, and Sebastian, nine, and cocker spaniel Dylan.
With the boys “craving their own space” and, after 12 months of having the property on the market and dropping the original £365,000 asking price by £40,000, the family decided they could no longer sit and wait for it to sell.
“I was getting a bit stressed about it,” said Jennie, 43.
“I thought ‘let’s think outside the box and try something a bit different’.”