Any disadvantages?

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Just wondering if there are any disadvantages to being mortgage free.
1) I have heard that it can have a negative impact on a credit score - is this the case if you have other credit e.g. credit cards paid in full each month, 5% car loan paid each month? Will it make it more difficult to get a mortgage in future if you want to get money for house renovations or moving to a new place?
2) Do mortgage companies still hold the deeds, and without a mortgage company is there a need to pay for secure storage of these?
1) I have heard that it can have a negative impact on a credit score - is this the case if you have other credit e.g. credit cards paid in full each month, 5% car loan paid each month? Will it make it more difficult to get a mortgage in future if you want to get money for house renovations or moving to a new place?
2) Do mortgage companies still hold the deeds, and without a mortgage company is there a need to pay for secure storage of these?
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2. Can't speak for all companies, but [email protected] sent ours back to us very quickly into the life of our mortgage, I get the impression that lenders are less keen to hold the deeds these days?
I believe the land Registry holds everything electronically, and so deed are just useless bits of paper, so are of no interest to banks/building societies. However, for hysterical raisins, people like deeds (sometimes they have info on exact boundaries) so are keen to keep them.
Just keep them in a fire proof box and they will be fine - no real loss if they are lost.
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