We consider the ordinary differential equationwith a ∈ R, b ∈ R, c > 0 and the singular initial condition u(0) = 0, which in financial economics describes optimal disposal of an asset in a market with liquidity effects. It is shown in the paper that if a + b < 0 then no continuous solutions exist, whereas if a + b > 0 then there are infinitely many continuous solutions with indistinguishable asymptotics near 0. Moreover, it is proved that in the latter case there is precisely one solution u corresponding to the choice x 0 = ∞ which is such that 0 ≤ u(x) ≤ x for all x > 0, and that this solution is strictly increasing and concave.