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Re: My 5 year goal!
So CC debt now out of the 6s and into the 5s! Hammering it down. Work is still so overwhelming and tiring, trying to give myself me time with sewing and running so basically not having time to spend …3 -
Re: How Do You Rebuild Financially After Losing Your Home While Trying to Save Your Marriage?
This, they are married, there are no his and hers assets, they are all shared marital assets, not individual.2 -
Re: How do I calculate my gas meter readings to kWh?
OFGEM issued a letter to suppliers in 2014 clarifying how the regulations were to be interpreted and it stated that the truncated average over the billing period was to be used. One particular suppli…2 -
Re: Hopefully debt free before Mortgage renewal in June 2026
Thanks for the messages of support everyone. It probably wasnt for me anyway. I will look for alternative options. Most likely after the xmas period now as its not the best time to find full time pos…2 -
Re: Tragic... Sounds real bad. Endowment mortgages :(
We took out our mortgage in 1994. The advisor (Lloyds) mentioned endowments, but recommended that we go for a repayment, as he could no longer say with any confidence that an endowment would make eno…1 -
Re: How Do You Rebuild Financially After Losing Your Home While Trying to Save Your Marriage?
I’m struggling to reconcile the various versions of this. In the original post you describe being blindsided by severe financial problems and repossession, but your earlier thread apparently showed t…2 -
Re: Tragic... Sounds real bad. Endowment mortgages :(
It's not even clear what the problem is, he mentions endowment mortgages and acknowledges they wrote to him to tell him it wouldn't clear the loan. He then mentions about being mis-sold a m…1 -
Re: Warning about a new ANPR TOLL on Warburton Bridge over Manchester Ship Canal managed by Excel
They've seen a long list of MPs and local councillors. They're very good at pulling the wool over their eyes. It seems they've recruited Brenda over to the dark side as well. She'…4 -
Re: Can you complain above POPLA?
There isn't a further appeal above POPLA on the merits, which is the frustrating part — but a couple of distinctions that may help: 1. A POPLA refusal isn't binding on you. A POPLA decision…4 -
Re: Warning about a new ANPR TOLL on Warburton Bridge over Manchester Ship Canal managed by Excel
Nice one. The FOI team are actually pretty helpful (maybe suspiciously so 😉 )4
