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The Case of the Overwhelming Mortgage

AgathaSquirrel · 2021-02-16 09:50:48

I’ve lurked for a long time. I have no-one in real life I can discuss these issues with and thought it might be helpful to get it out of my head and on to paper. I am mid 40s, married, with two pre-teen children. We moved in 2017, with a 20 year mortgage of £140,000 and interest of £10 per day. We now have a mortgage of…

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AgathaSquirrel Posts: 313 Forumite

28 December at 12:27PM

Thank you @glass_half_full. You are very kind. Happy New Year when it comes.

2017 - mortgage of £140,000 and interest rate of £10 a day
Feb 2021 mortgage of £103000
July 2021 mortgage of £97000
November 2021 mortgage of £93000
December 2022 mortgage of £79000
December 2023 mortgage of £73000
March 2024 mortgage of £70000
May 2024 mortgage of £68000
October 2024 mortgage of £65000
February 2025 mortgage of £63000
March 2025 mortgage of £45000 and interest of £6.07 per day
November 2025 mortgage of £41000 and interest of £5.62 per day
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