Mortgage Free - so good they'll do it twice! Wynnvegas aiming for the big house

black_taxi_2

wynnvegas,which airline do you use to fly to vegas?

wynnvegas

Hi BT,


We use a number. Most recently, we've gone with Virgin but we've used United, BA and BMI in the last few years. Virgin, in the summer months (when we're still tied to) have had the best deals in the last couple of years. We're having to fly from Manchester this year but it's a direct flight and it came in almost £300pp cheaper than any Edinburgh route.


Cheers,


Billy

Froggy-G

Update please!!!

wynnvegas

Pardon Monsieur G,


Been slow going in the last couple of weeks. Still waiting on payments and been largely transfixed with the summer holiday planning. Flights, Car, Hotels, Shows, Buffets, Coupons and Maps all sorted to switching off for a couple of months and will resume normal service late August!


Cheers so,


Billy

Froggy-G

Salut Billy

You seem to be disappearing for longer and longer these days..

An update is much overdue, me thinks :eek: your adoring fans patiently await :rotfl:

Cheers

Froggy

Froggy-G

Many congratulations on your shiny new Mortgage Free badge! :j:j:j

Froggy

black_taxi_2

Letter HSBC today


Contact solicitor to remove our legal challenge over the property


(im mortgage FREE)


Solicitor told me 6/8 weeks for deeds in my name


THX ALL who have stayed the course/your time will come


EXTRA THX to FB


hope your business to going ok wynnvegas

diadeb

Congrats black taxi, that's great news. I'll pop over to the other thread too!

spidystrider

Subscribed to this thread ages ago and finally finished reading it all and so sad that you have stopped updating. It's a fascinating read.

wynnvegas

Morning All,

As ever with the New Year, a million and one resolutions are on the go and getting back to reasonable fiscal management, among other, much bigger concerns, is high on the agenda. As such, I'm aiming to breathe some new life into this diary and already looking forward to catching up on the (hopefully) good progress of many old MFW compatriots.

It's amazing how slack we have gotten, checking the bank every few months instead of every few hours! Since the last update over a year ago, we've mainly been concentrated on travelling and retirement planning.

The biggest change in our lives over the last year are in April last year when we agreed that we'd had just about enough of Scotland and decided that we were going to have a good crack at moving to the SW US, ideally in Phoenix, AZ or thereabouts.

Having looked at the various visa pieces, there is simply no allowable way to go to the US and retire. We looked at extended visitor visas, visa waiver loopholes and becoming nomadic worldwide heat seekers but realised eventually that the single best way to get over long-term would be to bin plans of early retirement and work in the US. The H1B visa process is a total nonsense but thankfully Moyra ticks the occupation box as a teacher that allows us in on J1 visa as soon as she finds a job.

Thereafter, the project planning began in earnest. Unfortunately, it's a fairly linear process where the qualification matching, exams and police checks lead to teacher licensing which will lead to a job which will lead to a visa. That's a very simplistic summation of what has been our last 5 months but we're now in the process of having finished everything to allow the teacher application.

Summer 2015 was our first visit to Phoenix just to check the place out and do a bit of house hunting. The bizarre thing we found is that the house we wanted to build here, having gotten as far as designing it, is extraordinarily similar to a standard mid-range house in the US.

For any still battering toward mortgage freedom, I can honestly say the freedom it brings is fantastic. The ability to pick and choose what you do and when you do it in relation to work, travel and anything else in life is brilliant.

Happy New Year to all.

Cheers,

Billy