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Glad to hear you're all settled
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Hope the champagne went down well. You will soon be unpacked and settled.June 2025 - part 1 - £19,145 part 2 - £21,973 Total - £41,118 29 months to go!0
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edinburgher wrote: »We are in our new house. It is quiet, cozy and wonderfully out-of-date.
Vendor left us a bottle of chilled champagne :beer:
Tired, happy, relaxed.
Nice one, Mr & Mrs and Miss E! :j :beer:
Enjoy the takeaway and the champagne (not Juliette, of course! :rotfl:)Debt: £11,640.02 paid in full! DFD: 30/06/20
Starter Emergency Fund (#187): £1000/£1000
3 month Emergency Fund (#45): £3300/£33000 -
Glad it's gone well Ed :T. Are fish ok
. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort Mortgage Balance = £0
"Do what others won't early in life so you can do what others can't later in life"0 -
Fabulous. Who gives a monkeys that your house is vintage?
Do you have a garden now?!0 -
Congrats on the move :T:T:T Hope you get a bit of time for a well deserved rest.
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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Lovely to hear the move was ok - and what a lovely gesture from the vendors. Hope you put it to good use
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It would transpire that the vendors did not just leave us a bottle of champagne
So far, I have discovered:- A loft full of old carpet offcuts, half empty tins of paint, decrepit garden furniture, useless pieces of lumber and some truly deadful bodged wiring
- A leaky garage full of rusty tools, random sticks and assorted concrete nonsense
- A gas meter that I *actually* have to be on my hands and knees to read!
- A tumble dryer that predates either of us and has been used without a suitable vent hose in a very enclosed space
- Assorted decorative and functional madness :rotfl:
Currently trying to get quotes to sort out the roof tiles, replace the boiler, cut down a mahoosive tree and replace the fuse board/rewire :eek:0 -
How generous of them :mad:Mortgage at highest (April 2008): ~£195,000
Mortgage-free: January 2021
Retired: June 2022 (186 months early!)0 -
Goodness me sounds like you've got your hands full. Perhaps they thought that if you drank the champagne, you wouldn't realise all of those things amidst your drunken stupor?0
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