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Never a good time but here goes..
Having lurked on and off for a while, it was about time to commit. I’m 38 and about 7 months pregnant so instead of traditional nesting in the form of cleaning, I seem to have resorted to financial nesting instead. My mortgage was originally for 25 years - fixed for 4 then reduced by 3 years when I switched to a new deal.…
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Saving, Living, and Ditching the Mortgage
Hey everyone! Long time lurker. At my lowest I was here reading the SLLM posts hoping one day I will have my own mortgage and staying strong letting money sit and grow. These days I have my own mortgage on a lovely flat in a lovely city, almost half way through my 5yr fix now. Want to tackle the mortgage but hardly have…
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Our Journey to Mortgage Freedom by 2030 🏡💪
Hi everyone, I’ve been reading lots of inspiring posts here and thought it was time to start my own little diary to keep myself accountable (and hopefully help others who are on the same path!). A bit of background: * We bought our house in 2022, borrowing just over £400k on a 5-year fix at 2.4%. * We originally wanted…
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ok lets start this mortgage free journey Continued
Hello everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. I lost the login details for my previous account, but I’ve opened a new one so I can continue my journey. COVID was a tough setback, but I’m ready to move forward and keep working toward a mortgage-free life! old thread ok lets start this mortgage free journey —…
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Lumiona's MFW Diary
As a forum lurker, I'm not a threadstarter but I figured like many of you that a diary is a good accountability method. Ok so here goes: Backstory, we moved to our current house in 2006, bought for £178k mortgaged at £130k for 30yrs. Interest rates were high monthly payment about £750, went up to nearly £900 at one stage.…
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Future Proofing my life: Deposit saving then MFW journey in under 13 years
I have been reading lots of these MFW diaries over the last few weeks, some 300 odd pages long and tracking a decade or more of life. They have been fascinating, very inspirational and given me some great ideas. I am looking to buy within the next year, and then get MFW and o/p as soon as I can. My savings rate, income…
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Halving our income and still aiming for mortgage free!
Hi everyone, A long time lurker of DFW forum, and then here. Finally starting my own diary as I feel it will help keep me on track! As the title suggests we are halving our income as I have resigned my job in order to keep sane and support DD with home educating for the next year. The last two years we have managed to…
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Project Mortgage Neutral Begins
Hi. We have just remortgaged on our larger product and while mortgage freedom is still the ultimate goal I am working on the smaller challenge of mortgage neutral first. We have a smaller mortgage that we transferred when we moved 5 years ago and a larger mortgage that topped it up. Mortgage 1 Total £32097.21 Interest…
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FtbDreaming wants to clear £69,700 before Im 40 (2027)
Hello!!! Well I joined MSE in 2016 in the DFW forums and I’ve finally progressed through to my ultimate goal as a Mortgage Free Wannabe! My house purchase has gone through today and the £69,700 is showing up in my online banking so a good motivation to get it paid off. Ive bought the house I currently live in from the…
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New mortgage, are we mad!!
My husband and I are just about to embark on a new mortgage journey as we move to a detached home nearer to family and my employer. Its been a hard road to get here and we're both thrilled that we have this opportunity. We paid off our first mortgage on our first owned property in 2023. This time it's a smaller mortgage of…
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Bricks Not Books
The first day of a New Year seems like the best time to start this diary! I was on this board under another name for a number of years, but I felt like a change of name as well as a change of diary, so here I am! Completed on new home with OH in December, we haven't even owned it for a month yet. But we have a mortgage of…
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Mortgage
Hi i have and outstanding mortgage with 1year left, due to having to give up work to look after wife, I have been on benefits, and only paid the interest on the mortgage, I have PPension with a fund in excess of what I owe dan I use it and what are my pitfalls. Thanks
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At a crossroads
Hi all. Ive been an avid reader and sometimes contributer to the debt free wannabe pages for some time although not so much in the past year. Ive got to the point in life where excluding the mortgage, ive managed to pay off all debt. No loans, credit cards, student debt, hire purchase. Nothing. Its all gone and i must say…
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Lolu's Mortgage Free odyssey
Hello guys and welcome to my mortgage-free wannabe diary! I wanted to start one of these ever since my offer was accepted on a lovely two-bed property in Kent but I thought maybe it was slightly too early. I've always been fiercely independent and want to finally move out of my parents' house where I was paying…
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The Mortgage Free in Three - Take 7 challenge (MFiT-T7)
A three-year challenge for all of those who are want to pay down their mortgage (or save for house-related expenses) over a longer time period than MFW. First of all, a huge thank you to trix-a-belle who ran the 4 and 5 iterations of this challenge, inspiring many of us to stay on track (and becoming mortgage-free…
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I dream of a MF home for my plants
I’m starting myself a diary here after spending the last few days reading and lurking on the site. I used to have a diary over on debt free wannabe many years ago that was super helpful in getting my debt paid off. I can’t remember my old log in so am starting afresh. I have 12.5 years left on the mortgage - it’s split…
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CAPITAL GAINS TAX ON BUILDING PLOT SALE
Our main residence is a small cottage which is surrounded by 3 acres of land. We have secured planning permission on a part of the garden and will be selling the land to a builder. The proceeds from the sale will be roughly 2/3rds of our existing outstanding mortgage, and we will pay the full sum, less costs of selling,…
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My mortgage clobbering post
Putting this here because I'm an enthusiastic mortgage over payer and I have no one in real life to tell! Single parent for 15 years, left in £35,000 of debt by ex husband. (Paid off over 6 years). No maintenance paid in 15 years. Unable to pay capital for many years as I had to use the old endowment policy to pay off my…
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Z's MFW journey
As I've been watching the MFW forum for a while, I thought it would be good to start my own thread. We bought our current house in summer 2022 and owe £126,000 on the mortgage. Hoping to pay this off before 2028 as we'll be 40 then. We're on a 2 year fixed deal until Sept 2024 at 2.64% on a 30 year term. Obviously a bit of…
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I think overpaying the mortgage from the get go is worth it for my mental well being.
My interest rate is 4% fixed for 5 years, it's a 30 year mortgage and a lot can happen in 30 years. I work in an industry that is renowned for layoffs, cutting overtime, cutting hours etc. I know full well that I should take the excess money I have and invest it in the stock market but I know I will have constant worry,…
