ATB's £171k quest begins.... NOW!

Kaiser888

Good morning ATB,

Wow your smashing that number right down! And another OP too..
Good stuff !

atypicalblonde

Good morning friends,

Well tomorrow sees us getting back to normal, DD back at school nursery and DS has two days booked in at nursery, so I can get on top of the chaos that half term has created in our house!

I have a lot to do, including housework, paid work and number crunching. I also need to update the Christmas lists (I think we have most of the pressies now, phew).

DS slept for 12 hours solid last night so I feel more human today. Isn't sleep amazing! Right, cuppa time then off to strip the bed. We have another Air BNB guest all week arriving tomorrow so I need to prepare his room.

Best wishes, ATB xx

Watty1

Fab news re AirBnB. brill

atypicalblonde

Hello friends,

Naughty diarist checking in, 4 days without an update, most unlike me! A few bits to report:

• Signature updated to show current balance. This will remain as is (bar our usual 1st December payment) until the New Year. We haven't met our challenge by around £800, purely by choice. Something was niggling at me, telling me not to put all the last of our spare cash on the mortgage, so its tucked away in savings instead.
• Work has picked up on both sides
• The plan now is to super stash into the savings pot like a woman possessed until January when our new OP limit kicks in.
• We have had Air BnB guests for almost three weeks solid now. Our current guest leaves tomorrow, is back on Monday, then we have different guests booked in for the next two weekends. I cannot believe how much success we are having with it.
• I have some bits to put on fleabay but am struggling to be arrissed to do it....
• We have paid off over £26k on our mortgage in the last 9 months

So what next for us? Well I, ATB, hereby pledge that by 1.12.16 we will be in the five figures (well, in the sense of mortgage versus savings, we will still have to dratted 10% cap) until April 2017.

Thank you to all of you that have read, cheered me along, consoled me and made me laugh and cry in 2015, you are all wonderful and I feel privileged to know such lovely people online xx

hiddenshadow

atypicalblonde wrote: »

We have paid off over £26k on our mortgage in the last 9 months

:beer: Well done!

Karmacat

Amazing! And the fact that you've got air bnb peeps returning speaks volumes - your overpayment is already through the roof, you're going to be mortgage free in no time :j:j:j

Luckyinlife

amazing ATB 26k in 9 months wow

bet the bank hates you haha :]

but we love you wooo

Pearla*Merle

Wow! That's some awesome OPing! :T :T :T

Fantastic to hear the Air BnB is going so well. You'll be into the five figures in no time, I don't doubt it. :j

spendinglikemad

Fantastic - well done!!
Very inspiring!
SLM

Petal88

£26k in 9 months is mindblowing :O Really well done!

You've inspired me to take a look at Air Bnb as I've just realised my flat is going to be empty for nearly 2 weeks over Christmas and the New Year! I just need to convince the OH first that it's a good idea...