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Should I sell up and rent instead? Or is there a 3
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Hi, I have never posted on here before, but I am in need of some advice.
10yrs ago my husband and I bought a property using a homebuy scheme loan. We were young and just agreed to everything our broker said and we didn't fully understand the implications of it. Anyway we have 2 children and are struggling for space (2 up 2 down small terraced cottage). Financially we have had tough times and this has affected our credit score.
The homebuy scheme have told us that if we sell our property, we will have to give them 12.5% of the sale price to them (we bought the house for £127k and they have valued the house at £120k). So if we sell we have to give them £15k! Basically our deposit for our next home.
We tried to see if we could get a new mortgage to cover the current mortgage and the £15k so that we could pay the home equity loan back and get a better rate. We were turned down and was advised to wait a couple of years to try again.
We need more space now so we are thinking of selling our home and walking away with about £6k profit (after 10yrs this is painful, but at least that home equity loan will be gone). We won't be able to buy somewhere, so we could rent a bigger property instead. We have seen some properties that are perfect but will be about £200 more per month. I feel like it is a step backwards but at this moment in time we need to move out.
But then I thought we could ask my MIL to rent our current property off us (she is looking to rent somewhere at the moment) and we go and rent somewhere. We could use my MIL's monthly rent to pay our.monthly mortgage and just pay for our rent as normal. I have never rented before and I have never thought about renting out our home either, so I feel quite overwhelmed by what I have read.
Is it best to sell up and just rent going forward? Or can we rent our property out to my MIL (or even a stranger through an estate/letting agent)? Which would make the most sense? If we did rent, is it quite straightforward?
Sorry for the long post, just feeling very confused. Thanks in advance for reading this.
10yrs ago my husband and I bought a property using a homebuy scheme loan. We were young and just agreed to everything our broker said and we didn't fully understand the implications of it. Anyway we have 2 children and are struggling for space (2 up 2 down small terraced cottage). Financially we have had tough times and this has affected our credit score.
The homebuy scheme have told us that if we sell our property, we will have to give them 12.5% of the sale price to them (we bought the house for £127k and they have valued the house at £120k). So if we sell we have to give them £15k! Basically our deposit for our next home.
We tried to see if we could get a new mortgage to cover the current mortgage and the £15k so that we could pay the home equity loan back and get a better rate. We were turned down and was advised to wait a couple of years to try again.
We need more space now so we are thinking of selling our home and walking away with about £6k profit (after 10yrs this is painful, but at least that home equity loan will be gone). We won't be able to buy somewhere, so we could rent a bigger property instead. We have seen some properties that are perfect but will be about £200 more per month. I feel like it is a step backwards but at this moment in time we need to move out.
But then I thought we could ask my MIL to rent our current property off us (she is looking to rent somewhere at the moment) and we go and rent somewhere. We could use my MIL's monthly rent to pay our.monthly mortgage and just pay for our rent as normal. I have never rented before and I have never thought about renting out our home either, so I feel quite overwhelmed by what I have read.
Is it best to sell up and just rent going forward? Or can we rent our property out to my MIL (or even a stranger through an estate/letting agent)? Which would make the most sense? If we did rent, is it quite straightforward?
Sorry for the long post, just feeling very confused. Thanks in advance for reading this.
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Remember, if you sit it out and see it through you will eventually own the house.
If you throw in the towel and rent, then my only advice is put a LOT more into your pensions, as you will need it to keep paying rent in your retirement.
Plenty of people bring up a familly in a 2 bedroom home. There will come a time when you can move up, just not right now.0 -
Are you able to rent a property you got via the homebuy scheme ?
Cant see this being an option unless Ive read it wrong.0 -
Could you extend/loft conversion to give you more space without having to move.Thrifty Till 50 Then Spend Till the End
You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time but you can never please all of the people all of the time0 -
I'd say it's always good to have your own house unless distance from house to work factors in or other similar circumstances. Remember renting is favored only for as long as it let's you save more or when paying transpo is more expensive than renting.0
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We cannot extend upwards or even outwards (we are in a conservation area)0
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I am not sure. Would need to check. I know we are limited to what we can do to the property ie. extens, so known my luck, we won't be allowed tl rent out.0
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That is my feeling too. I think keeping this property could act as a safety net if anything was to go wrong with our rental place. Just need to see if we can rent (and also to get my husband to agree to rent it if we are able to).0
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don't forget the legal aspect when renting out, as well as the tax implications."It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"
G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP0 -
If you haven't enquired and have space to extend it would be worth checking out, a house we are looking at this week is in a conservation area and has conditional planning for a additional self contained building at the rear, ( sadly it's only financially worth doing by the current vendor)0
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