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Learning to walk before I run

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  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,317 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I hope your silence means you are just enjoying your home again.
    Mortgage End Date: Apr 36/Aiming for Apr 28/Current Dec 32

    Mortgage OP 2025 £5350/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £37,597
    2029 Holiday fund £356/7000

    ”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)
  • Glad you are sorted. What a relief for you 
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £175.8K Equity 32.38%
    2) £4.3K Net savings after CCs 13/5/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £20.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.1K) = 26.3/£127.5K target 20.63% updated 16/5
    4) FI Age 60 income target £16.5/30K 55.1%
    5) SIPP £4.4K updated 16/5
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Ed, that's wonderful!  Always a few reservations around building work, of course.  But great to get it clean and liveable, and the touch-up bits are doable by you.  Amazing that you managed to get the bird out yourself!
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • elantan
    elantan Posts: 21,022 Forumite
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    Great to hear Ed, you must be breathing a sigh of relief, enjoy your "new" home xxx
  • L9XSS
    L9XSS Posts: 438 Forumite
    Third Anniversary 100 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Name Dropper
    Great that your home is yours again! Has the champagne been popped yet? 🍾
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