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  • Dinkyd08
    Dinkyd08 Posts: 17 Forumite
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    I can’t - its my partners from a house sale. I wouldn’t be happy to take any part of the money.
  • Dinkyd08
    Dinkyd08 Posts: 17 Forumite
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    The outstanding loan is £5200 and last payment is March 2019 so just over a year left.

    No other cards (aside from the one I’ve just stupidly applied for!)

    There is £75k deposit going down

    And the mortgage is for £220k

    My partner is very good with money - he has a loan of £6k for a car but he will be paying this off with the rest of the profit.

    Thank you for your invaluable advice.
    I’m not very good st this sort of thing (clearly!) and think this is a wake up call for me!
  • Dinkyd08
    Dinkyd08 Posts: 17 Forumite
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    I am on. Reasonably good wage and always pay my accounts on time, I have paid approx £1500 one of my credit cards the last few months and have decreased the card limit too by nearly £2000.
    My partner has a good salary too.
  • Dinkyd08
    Dinkyd08 Posts: 17 Forumite
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    I’m not sure - I’m meeting with my advisor tmrw evening, he is recommending various building societies and not sure who they use, I have an account with Experian.
  • [Deleted User]
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    Dinkyd08 wrote: »
    I have paid approx £1500 one of my credit cards the last few months and have decreased the card limit too by nearly £2000.

    Clear the balance but stop lowering your limit.

    It looks like the lender no longer trusts you.
  • G_M
    G_M Posts: 51,977 Forumite
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    Dinkyd08 wrote: »
    I can’t - its my partners from a house sale. I wouldn’t be happy to take any part of the money.
    and yet you are jointly buying a property with this money.......:huh:
  • AdrianC
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    Dinkyd08 wrote: »
    I can’t - its my partners from a house sale. I wouldn’t be happy to take any part of the money.

    Dinkyd08 wrote: »
    The outstanding loan is £5200 and last payment is March 2019 so just over a year left.

    No other cards (aside from the one I’ve just stupidly applied for!)

    There is £75k deposit going down

    And the mortgage is for £220k
    You and your partner are jointly buying a £295,000 house.
    You and your partner will jointly own that £295,000 house.
    Depending on how you assign that ownership, you will either both jointly own all of it, or you will have a fixed ownership split. Have you decided that?

    You and your partner will jointly owe £220,000 on the mortgage secured on that house.

    Now is a very good time to start to get over this whole "But that's not my money" thing. If you want to be a joint owner, sort your finances out so that the lender thinks you're a good risk for being lent nearly a quarter of a million pounds.

    Right now, you - personally - seemingly have a total net worth of somewhere around minus £20k...
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