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Making chicken feed of my mortgage
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So after a year of diverting our OPs to the original mortgage, I decided to switch back to OPing the further advance...
end-April 2008 - FA = £106,190
end-October 2015 - FA = £0
Paid off 12.5 years early :T:j:T:j:T
Mortgage payment (for the IO original mortgage) is now <£150/monthMortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
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Congratulations on paying off your further advance :beer:
Or maybe no :beer: for Mr MWC in his delicate condition, he can have a :coffee:instead. Does he have any winnings you can OP while he's asleep?;):rotfl:Save £10,500 - £2673.77 - 25.5%
Pay off £7000 - £1743 - 19.4%
Make £2021 extra income - £99.750 -
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Congrats, MWC! :j:j
xxI am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soulRepaid mtge early (orig 11/25) 01/09 £124616 01/11 £89873 01/13 £52546 01/15 £12133 07/15 £NILNet sales 2024: £200 -
Awesome stuff! :T:T:TNST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0
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Fantastic news! I hope Mr MWC is suitably contrite2023: the year I get to buy a car0
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muddywhitechicken wrote: »So after a year of diverting our OPs to the original mortgage, I decided to switch back to OPing the further advance...
end-April 2008 - FA = £106,190
end-October 2015 - FA = £0
Paid off 12.5 years early :T:j:T:j:T
Mortgage payment (for the IO original mortgage) is now <£150/month
I can't believe I missed your post. I am THRILLED.
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Tilly x x2004 £387k 29 years - MF March 2033:eek:
2011 £309k 10 years - MF March 2021.
Achieved Goal: 28/08/15 :j0 -
Well done MWC, that's great news! :T:T:T
MGx:jMortgage free 08.08.19 :j
2018: £19410.25 / £9,300 2017: £7646.64 / £11,000 2016: 4557.98 / £11,000 2015: £10,230.37 / £11,000 2014 =£6703.26 / £11,000 2013 = £4288.51 / £8000 2012 = £1600/£5000 2011 = £2579/£3000
MF date was Nov 2041 - mortgage neutral 23.07.18
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