Tierd of living in a shoe box

cocalls

Doesn't seem to have let me do it thanks anyway gallygirl-hopefully noone has noticed ha ha. Maybe its a good thing that although im a trained teacher i haven't taken up the profession yet-i can't spell!!

cocalls

So normal mort payment went out last night, which takes it down to 63,673.45 i received the massive sum of £1.88 from quidco so i've rounded it up and i now have £843.45 in the isa. So the mort is down to 62830 which i'm quite pleased about.
Now managed to have a good chat with OH in the last few days re moving-managed to convince him that we could afford it quite comfortably, perhaps we might have moved by summer?? mmmmm we'll see.

LilacPixie

oooo moving is exciting and scary in equal measures. Have you been nosing about online?? I looked and looked online for ages before we put house on market to get a rough idea of what amount of money would get us what.

cocalls

i have yes-love looking at property !!!!!!, i think we should be able to afford a £200,000 house which round here would get you a three-bed semi or vic terrace and sell this one for about £125,00ish

drewwa

Good luck with paying down the mortgage Cocalls, looks like you're making good progress. Keep it up!

Cheers,

Drew.

sarahevie

My OH makes me say like im at an AA meeting

"My name is sarah and I'm a "rightmove addict" :rotfl:

Love property - been watching homes under the hammer on iplayer just yesterday.

Your budget is brilliant - sounds like you can get a really lovely 'family home' for that.

I don't regret going for the biggest we could afford (still think it has saved us in the long run as we haven't had the expense/emotional strain of buying/selling)

cocalls

Thanks guys-stressful afternoon here, had the health visitor round to weigh bubs but she ended up ringing the police after hearing the woman nxt door abusing her baby. poor kid

Zeddy

How awful about the baby next door, and awful for you living next to it.

We're in a similar position to you in that we're in a tiny house, however we have just made the next step and are hoping to moving into a house 2.5 times bigger than this one at some point in January. While I really hate living in such a small house and have cursed it so much over the years I keep reminding myself that it has served a purpose and meant our mortgage was managable enough for us to have a baby and still have a good quality of life while I was on maternity leave and our household therefore dropped in half and also it meant we could overpay and therefore keep more equity in the house, which has helped with the move.

Good luck to you.

cocalls

Thanks Zeddy that's good to know.Good luck with the house move.

LilacPixie

oh no how distressing...