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Financial advice/Mathematician needed

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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    mewbie wrote: »
    Bit too subterranean for a sea view though. Unless you stood on a box.
    I usually do. I'm diminutive.

    In my last house I had all the windows replaced ... didn't think it through. I stood with the window man and said "I want the windows split in the middle, top half all openers". Great, lovely windows installed. Huge 6' high, 8' wide bay window ... stand in the bay window to look out and enjoy the view ... uh-ho ... that middle bit - the horizontal uPVC bit ... right at eye height :(
  • LizzieS_2
    LizzieS_2 Posts: 2,948 Forumite
    Personally I would go for option B, as in the long-term house prices do increase. Looking on the bleak side, even if you chose to sell at a value less than what you paid, then under option 1 you would still have to repay all the Government help (with no guarantee you would qualify on your next home for help), whereas under option 2 you would have repaid some of the capital borrowed.
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