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Is anyone better at working out these things than me? I’d really appreciate any advice. We require a mortgage of £180000. Best rate we can find is 3.85% with no fee and £250 cashback. We will have roughly £60000 left over once purchasing. We want to keep this aside in case we want to send our children to private…
Hi! I unfortunately have around £10,000 debt that I’ve been burying my head in the sand about for a few years.. - £1195 Old Santander overdraft, which has been passed to Cabot and they're chasing me up - recently sent an Orbit agent to ‘get me in touch with them’ though I wasn’t in just got a slip through the letterbox. I…
I have an old bungalow which has artex in a wall in the kitchen which ive been told may have asbestos fibres within it. Problem is ive recently had a rewire so part of the chasing was done in that wall before the cables were run through and then finally re-plastered. So, the asbestos, if its there, will have been disturbed…
Hello Fellow MSErs (and parking experts). So, I fell foul of MET's scam car park in Stansted (quelle surprise). The car was alleged to be there in January 2024, and I was the RK of the car and received the NTK over 14 days after the alleged infringement (of leaving the car and the occupants walking to McDonalds, parked in…
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It's also been confirmed that you'll be able to get automatic compensation from your energy supplier for certain smart meter problems.
The Bank of England said there had been "substantial disinflation over the past two and a half years". It's the third time the base rate has been cut this year.
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