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They didn't tell me to ring the Samaritans

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  • MissKJ
    MissKJ Posts: 780 Forumite
    Point taken, I was just thinking about future improved mortgage offers.
    unsecured Debts at [strike]August 2007 £79,984[/strike] September £79,579 [STRIKE]Snowballing date July 2013[/STRIKE].

    May 2009, £76,772 unsecured debts

    DMP started Dec 2008, End date at start 2133!
  • Spirit_2
    Spirit_2 Posts: 5,546 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    The DFW's are all heart and will offer good advice if they can see your SOA.

    Try looking forward to when you can claim back all your excessive bank charges and use the energy you would have spent dwelling on the LLoyds charges to post your SOA.

    If you can't do it all at once do as much as you can, and then edit it when your normal energy resumes.

    take care
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Hi MissKJ - if you pay less than the minimum monthly payment required then it will unfortunately affect your credit rating (if a bank does a search, they will be able to see that you are making reduced payments), because you have technically broken the terms of your agreement. So if you CAN manage to meet your monthly payments, it's worth doing, to protect your credit rating, especially if you are wanting to remortgage at some point.
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
  • MissKJ
    MissKJ Posts: 780 Forumite
    Thanks Snaggles, i knew there must be a reason why I am insisting on paying all that I owe, as well as the moral obligation of course. I will sleep better knowing, however foolishly that I just worked hard to get out of debt. Not afraid of hard work but a little impatient!
    unsecured Debts at [strike]August 2007 £79,984[/strike] September £79,579 [STRIKE]Snowballing date July 2013[/STRIKE].

    May 2009, £76,772 unsecured debts

    DMP started Dec 2008, End date at start 2133!
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    MissKJ wrote: »
    Not afraid of hard work but a little impatient!
    Nothing wrong with that at all! :D
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
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