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My Community Bank Loan
Hello everyone, I got a fairly hefty loan from My Community Bank and I pay approx £550/m. I'm now in a position that I can make over payments but I've noticed that the over payments are reducing the term of the loan but are still being split between principle and interest. I phoned them today to ask if my over payments…
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Wedding/Engagement Rings in Pawnbroker Help Needed
My first post. I am new to the forum, hoping I have this in the right place. I am here to help a family member who has been victim to a huge trust fraud online. It's having some pretty far reaching effects on the family and though I work in finance, some of this stuff is very new to me. One of those new things, is Pawn…
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Old Style Student Loans Help Please
Hello, I am wondering if anyone can offer me any advice. I have read through many other posts regarding these loans but i'm still unsure where I stand. I have 3 student loans originally taken out with Student Loans Company in 96,97,98. In 2008 2 of the loans were taken over by Thesis Servicing Ltd. every year deferment…
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Cheap Loan deal - not so much
Just tried to apply for the current best offer for a £15k loan from Finble advertised as 2.7%. Got accepted for the load but the APR is now 8.7%. Has this happened to anyone else? Is this common across other providers?
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Credit union loans
Hi, Can anyone who has ever worked or volunteered in a credit union please explain the way the loan process works and how long it can take to find out the decision? Thanks in advance 😀
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Student Loan, not taking full amount
My daughter has been offered the full maintenance amount but has also had a relative offer to pay the accommodation fees for them as a gift. So they are in the very fortunate position of not needing the full student loan offered. Is there a method of taking a lesser amount from the loan company and is that worth doing ?…
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LoanBNPL Options
Hello All, Long time stalker, first time poster. I want to purchase a lot of home computing items (e.g. two in one laptop and tablet, printer, printer ink, printer paper, speakers etc) over the next few months and the cost could come around to around £800-£1.2k (depending on models etc). My current laptop is too slow and…
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Lender not honouring better rate
Recently took out a loan for home improvement. Needed funds quickly, shopped around and waited for as long as possible before applying through Clearecore to Ratesetter. I was 100% eligible and received 10.9% apr. I’m within the 14day cooling off period and I had an inkling that my offers might have slightly improved so I…
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Loans and esw1
Hello peeps not sure if this is the correct thread but.. can you get a secured loan against a property with no ESW1? I need to borrow 40k but I’m trapped in a 700k property that has the value of £0 due to cladding. there has to be a way, any idea? tia
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Creditor ignored Statute Barred Letter
Hi. Looking for some advice. I am being pursued for a debt to CapQuest, who are using Moorcroft as the DCA. I last made a payment on 2nd June 2014. I have only had phone contact once, where I refused to acknowledge the debt and asked them to prove it. No further communication happened until last week. I have sent a statute…
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Loan request after mortgage
Hi everyone! My house purchase is due to complete tomorrow, and the property needs a little TLC. I have some funds, but was hoping to apply for a top-up to a loan I already have to finance some additional work. I will still be living in my current rented property until early September, so was wondering: when applying for a…
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Tappily stopping lending...
Anyone else unfortunately with Tappily? Now stopped all lending as per the below: "Tappily has in recent weeks been paying close attention to the significant changes we have seen in customer behaviour as a result of the current cost of living crisis. As a result of this and following engagement with the FCA we have…
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Interest with Very.
So I'm coming to the end of a 12m 'buy now pay later' period with Very. I still owe £730 and the bnpl runs out on 15th August. I've attached the info on my account. What I want to know, if I didn't pay any of the £730 before then, would the amount I owe them now include the full £397.51 meaning I owe them £1127.51?
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Bridging Loan
My husband bought a van on HP to start a new business venture being a delivery driver. All was going well for the first 10 months. Then it all went down hill. The cost of fuel has made his job impossible. Anyway, we are now stuck with a van costing over £700 a month for the HP agreement and no money coming in to cover it.…
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Provident reclaim interest
Hi has anyone had any information from provident after using their portal for reclaiming interest from loans taken out and classed as unaffordable I have about £5000 in total of fully repaid loans. I was on ESA benefit only at the time and struggling financially when I took out the first loan and the agent and manager were…
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Debt consolidation loan a good or bad idea?
I have nearly £9,000 on 2 credit cards. I often make overpayments but it's taking too long for the balance to go down. I'm thinking of getting a loan to clear the debt as the interest is so much lower and by paying the equivalent of the current minimum payments (plus a £100 per month overpayment), I would pay off the loan…
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Help,Creditspring Scam?
Hello, advice needed please: I recently received numerous text messages from a company called CreditSpring claiming I was behind on my "membership" payments to them and they would report this to Equifax and Experian. I checked my credit report and indeed this company are on my credit file and had taken payments from my…
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Student Loans Company
Hi, I was wondering if a default on your credit file would affect your ability to get a student loan? I can't find any information online. Thanks.
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Personal Loan repayment thoughts
Transferring personal loan to credit card So I just took out a personal loan of 12000 at 11.3%. The first payment is not due until July 30th. A credit card that I have has just offered me a balance transfer of 5.8% and that rate stays until the balance is paid off. Meaning there is no time limit to have it paid. The fee is…
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Loan taken out then used for other purposes
Any thoughts or ideas please Ladies and Gentlemen. If, a person, took a loan out with a bank, being a Unsecured Loan, with the express reason for being for "Home Improvements", and then, being approved, moved those funds, through their bank accounts, and then, they used the full amount of the loan to purchase a fixed asset…
