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Mortgage free in Forever Home :-)
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Well done on your OPs.
I want to hide from my numbers... I can't OP and make the progress I want to on the house at the same time. Unless I win a decent PB ...2 -
Thanks @f0xh0les, I just knew you'd appreciate that post
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Huge sympathies on this. I've been just there for quite a while and I have just been 'dribbling' in what I can. It's only in recent months, now that the worst of the current works on the house are done, that I have any significant capacity to OP. I'm really hoping to do quite a bit of OP'ing next year as, theoretically, we are not doing any work on the house. But, we will still need maintenance of various types ... and I need to think about my pension pots as well ...greenbee said:Well done on your OPs.
I want to hide from my numbers... I can't OP and make the progress I want to on the house at the same time. Unless I win a decent PB ...
KK
As at 15.11.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £228,473
- OPs to mortgage = £12,822 Estd. interest saved = £6,166 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 77 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 13th December
Produce tracker: £447 of £300 in 2025
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I shared the mortgage OP and status summary I wrote out above, with Mr KK this evening and it’s given him a bit of a boost to know that ‘we’ve taken 1.5 years off the term’ 😊
He’s talking again about contributing something from the Bedford sale (if it ever goes through … 🤷♀️).
KKAs at 15.11.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £228,473
- OPs to mortgage = £12,822 Estd. interest saved = £6,166 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 77 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 13th December
Produce tracker: £447 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.5 -
Well done on the mortgage OPs! Those small but steady progresses are really taking effect and shows you what a little can do.
( @greenbee I am in a similar position in that mortgage debt OPing is on a halt at the minute while I divert to other things, I just have to keep telling myself that it's me making sensible decisions about priorities!)Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
Current mortgage amount: £226,957.97
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Great news KK
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Having a glass of something nice, and playing with the MSE mortgage overpayment calculator, is a lovely way to spend a festive evening. Honestly it is!!Hmmmm, if I overpay £157 a month it takes 1.5 years off the term .... what happens at £160, which is the magic number that knocks another month off ... ooh £162! what if I do this.... or that..... ohh, that's quite impressive!Ha! can't afford that one! I do actually miss mucking about and playing with it all.Oh well, after I get the builders booked in, and the house is sorted, no doubt Dr F-H will get a job somewhere else and I can start all over again.4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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Great news on the OP's KK. An image of the hare and the tortoise popped into my mind!2
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Fab news!
One of my favourite things to do is play with the mortgage calculator op section on here 🤣.
It's really hard when you want to do the house up, holiday, have a life, make a decent EF and pay down the mortgage too 🤔😅.Emergency Fund- £717.772 -
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KKAs at 15.11.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £228,473
- OPs to mortgage = £12,822 Estd. interest saved = £6,166 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 77 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 13th December
Produce tracker: £447 of £300 in 2025
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.7
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