This may seem like an insurmountable problem, della, but things may be better than you think!
Because of generous tax breaks and incentives for first-time homebuyers, modest houses such as yours are enjoying more popularity than before. Also, you may be able to get help from HUD, the department of housing, or Habitat for Humanity, or other agencies. I just sold a house last fall that was in terrible disrepair. In fact, I regarded it as uninhabitable. I consulted a good realtor who told me not to do anything to the house but to sell it as-is. I put it on the market at a low price and had lots of people interested in viewing it. In just a day or two, there was a handful of interested buyers who bid up the price amongst themselves. Within the month, the house was sold. Although I ended up losing about $20,000 over the investment's lifetime, I would have lost that in the stock market crash anyway. And I didn't have to spend countless hours arranging for all sorts of repairs to be done. It felt so good to be walking away from that money pit for the last time! And buyers, who are generally young families, single people, gays who are legendary in their home improvement skills, and people buying houses for investment and renting purposes, are happy to take on your headaches and get them off your shoulders!
BTW, the couple who bought this house had an FHA loan. There's a myth out there that you can't buy a house "as-is" with an FHA loan, but I found out that's not true!