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'We've reached a tipping point' Signs of house price weakness

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  • Rota
    Rota Posts: 167 Forumite
    saguk1234 wrote: »
    No but the banks can put a charge on the house which prevents a proper sale!

    So make sure you keep up your payments. No problem then.
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    Rota wrote: »
    I was for a while while living overseas. I didn't anyone not working in the flat.


    Bankers dream, 39 and still can`t write properly let alone understand a mortgage contract.
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
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    Rota wrote: »
    Crashy, how old are you? I'm 39


    I`m old enough to know better than to answer a question like that.
  • Rota
    Rota Posts: 167 Forumite
    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    Bankers dream, 39 and still can`t write properly let alone understand a mortgage contract.

    How old are you?
  • Crashy_Time
    Crashy_Time Posts: 13,386 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Seventh Anniversary Name Dropper
    Rota wrote: »
    How old are you?


    When they try to find out how old you are so they can apply labels, you know the argument is won. Thank you and goodnight.
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
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    Rota wrote: »
    How old are you?

    If you believe him He sold up in Aberdeen 17 years ago and has some equity from that sale so must be getting on a bit.
  • Rota
    Rota Posts: 167 Forumite
    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    When they try to find out how old you are so they can apply labels, you know the argument is won. Thank you and goodnight.

    :j Night night!
  • Rota
    Rota Posts: 167 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    If you believe him He sold up in Aberdeen 17 years ago and has some equity from that sale so must be getting on a bit.

    Lets try and work it out.

    So renting for 17 years, did he say he had sold up in the past?
  • Jack_Johnson_the_acorn
    Jack_Johnson_the_acorn Posts: 1,333 Forumite
    Rota wrote: »
    Lets try and work it out.

    So renting for 17 years, did he say he had sold up in the past?

    He's in his 50's in a HMO with a bunch of other crack-heads.

    So let's leave him alone, He's understandably upset at the financial situation he finds himself in. :(
  • wotsthat
    wotsthat Posts: 11,325 Forumite
    Crashy_Time wrote: »
    Please tell me that you are joking? 100k, or whatever, tied up in a totally illiquid asset in the biggest housing bubble of all time is better than just popping the 100k into an NS&I ISA?

    You've popped £81k into your landlord(s) back pocket, own 0% of nothing, and let's face it, haven't got any savings in an NS&I ISA.

    I know you see yourself as a maurauding invader from across the ether but come on - you can't see the wood for the trees.
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