Mortgage Exit Fees successes and failures

monkeysarereallyfunny

Wasn't going to bother ... but I did. Just a quick phone call and I pretty much forgot about it. Today I got a letter. And a cheque for £120! Yaaaaaaaaaay! :j :beer: :j

EileenWonder

I looked at this site 3 weeks ago and have been sending letters to all the banks credit card providers and so on.
One of my letters was too the Alliance and Leicester asking them how much I paid in exit fees when I remortgaged 3 yrs ago.

They wrote back this morning and inluded a cheque for £287 YeeeHaaa

This is the first of many I Hope

This site is fantastic :T

I love you Martin lol :money:

Eileen

Pooh_Two

Thank you! I have just received a cheque for £126 from Abbey National. We paid £225 Mortgage Repayment Fee when we switched mortgages. I followed the advice on the website and used your template and it worked! :T

JF001

Rang Abbey 7 days ago, filled in a form, recieved £140.00 today!! Many, many thanks.

RyanL_3

What can i say, Only heard about this last sunday, rang Abbey on Monday got the form through on Wednesday sent it back and have just got a cheque for £160 in the post :T :A :beer:

POSSETTE

I had no paperwork and couldnt even remember who we had mortgages with!!
looked on experian credit file where it told me dates of Virgin One and Scottish Widows mortgages i had.
used template letter and gave name and dates only,
got £75 chq back yesterday from Virgin, and awaiting Scottish reply.

autismmum

Abbey Wont Give Me My Account Number And I Dont Have The Paperwork Can They Withhold It???

Noz

autismmum wrote: »

Abbey Wont Give Me My Account Number And I Dont Have The Paperwork Can They Withhold It???

I suggest that you follow POSSETTE's experience

koshkha

I called Britannia on Monday to ask them to check what I'd been charged when I left them for the Woolwich earlier this year.

The assistant didn't seem too clear and I spent a while on hold whilst she passed me around. However, when I said 'so should I send this in a letter' she told me not to worry and she'd handle it for me.

A couple of days later a letter arrived to say they were investigating and then on Saturday a cheque came through.

I'd been after £175 - the difference between the £50 originally listed as the fee and the £225 they charged me by claiming £75 for each of three sub-accounts.

What I got was £275 because they'd checked my records and also spotted they charged me £150 instead of £50 when I moved house in 2004. In the muddle of all the legal stuff I hadn't even realised that I paid that.

I called to say 'thank you' and the guy on the phone told me 'I'm not really trained to deal with people saying thank you - I spend most of my time being shouted at'.

Credit where it's due - they were fast and thorough and went beyond my expectation.

AndyPortos

:money: Saw the article in the email newsletter - wrote a 2 line letter to the Northern Rock as per Martins tips in what to say - we received a letter from NR within 2 days asking us to sign a declaration, indicating that we had been charged incorrectly by £55!!! returned the declaration, and we received a cheque 2 days later - FANTASTIC. (we left NR 2 years ago - we could not even find any reference numbers to our mortgage - they did all the leg work!):T :j