You need a better real estate agent. If you're getting no offers, and you're past the average days on the market, your price is too high. Also, "most people are scraping by" is largely due to the fact that "most people" have no sense of personal finance, don't have a monthly budget, buy a house with a mortgage or rent one with a monthly payment that's more than 25% of their gross income, and buy a bunch of toys on credit instead of saving up to buy them.