From renting to owning own flat

emylou

Me & OH currently rent and have virgin media which we pay for. We have now actually bought the flat but the virgin media is in my brother's name (he was our landlord). We need to decide whether to keep the package and just have our names put on it or get my brother to cancel and then we call up as new customers and try to get a decent deal. At the moment we pay £120/month, I'm not sure of the details but I know this includes sports channel although my husband only has it for the formula one but he is very reluctant to get rid of it as BBC only shows highlights.
My questions are
1) what are the chances of us getting a decent new customer deal?
2) how long do you think we could be without virgin whilst waiting for them to reinstall?
3) we have recorded programmes on TiVo- would it be possible for my brother to ask them to save it or transfer it anyway so we don't lose all of them?


Any other tips/pointers for budgeting and owning our own property?

Many thanks, emylou

clayton16749

£120 a month for some TV channels?


And I though we were paying too much to Sky for tv, phone and broadband - at £48 a month.


I'd try to get a much cheaper package.

emylou

This is the current deal from virgin;
XL TV
Sky Sports
TiVo box
2 additional VHD boxes
152mb broadband
Telephone with free weekend calls
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12 month contract = £99.99 per month (saving £18.25 per month)
Or
18 month contract = £88.99 per month for 12 months then £99.99 thereafter.

We only have one additional vhd box and don't use the free weekend calls ("free" if call is less than 59 minutes then you can hang up and call AGAIN for another 59 minutes etc). I will see if this reduces the cost at all but after reading other's savings from Sky I think we will definitely be changing! As much as my brother (our landlord) liked to be savvy and money conscious, he didn't like changing deals and would probably have stayed with virgin rather than change to a different supplier for fear of being without internet/tv for a short period!

Thanks for your thoughts!