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help please ?? advise on interest only deal.

We are currently paying our mortgage to redstone. We have been out of our deal since last October. Due to previous credit history there are not many lenders out there willing to lend. Last default falls off in September and two small ccjs under 250 satisfied 2007. I asked redstone if we could overpay each month and they said yes we can overpay as much as we want as we are no longer tied in . My question is we are on libor + 2.5%
( 350 ) per month. do we overpay interest only or open an isa ? mortgage is for 122,000 house value 185,000 aprox

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  • VIGILANT22
    VIGILANT22 Posts: 2,516 Forumite
    edited 24 April 2010 at 4:22PM
    Quote:do we overpay interest

    You cant overpay interest....overpayent comes off the capital sum
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    VIGILANT22 wrote: »
    Quote: My question is we are on libor + 2.5%

    Redstone will be the most reliable soure of information to your question

    the question was
    My question is we are on libor + 2.5%( 350 ) per month. do we overpay interest only or open an isa ? mortgage is for 122,000 house value 185,000 aprox
  • opinions4u
    opinions4u Posts: 19,411 Forumite
    Overpay the mortgage.
  • sandrad44
    sandrad44 Posts: 30 Forumite
    Thanks for the replies. I just wasn't sure. Got an appointment at the abbey this week to see if they would accept us and what kind of deal we would be offered. Would like to change to repayment asap. meantime I will keep overpaying redstone.
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
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    Don't change just because they will give you a repayment only change for a better deal.
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