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15months to debt free - I hope
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Sorry to hear about your worries about the car.Could the solicitor help?I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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This definitely sounds like you should ask the solicitor, they don't have a contract with you and it is bloody outrageous they're trying to ask a disabled non driver in her 70s to pay 2k for something that's nothing to do with youhttps://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6466032/an-in-between-phase
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I have emailed the solicitor but as I understand it a contract like this doesn't die with the person, I think we have decided to photograph it when we are at the house next week and put it on the selling place I use for silly money and see what happens. It will be a pain as I may have to go down and possibly stay overnight being reliant on the train. Mr lh is happy to take me but it costs at least twice as much and we have to take Bear which isn't fair on him as he isn't keen on travelling.2
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Good luck to them getting money from a stone.I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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I would definitely speak to the solicitor first but otherwise selling for a silly price sounds best. I can't see how they can force you to take on a contract that isn't yours. What would happen if BIL didn't have any relatives?
Enjoy the Strike book, it's always nice to have a good bit of escapism!"Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee1 -
Definitely need to speak to the solicitor about this. You can't be expected to over your BIL's contract. The contract was between him and the company and absolutely nothing to do with you. I think they're just taking a chance that you'll just pay up.2
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I think the company are chancing it too. It’s not your problem you didn’t take it on. This is something for the solicitor to sort out.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)1
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Evening allAccording to what I have read the contract is enforceable to the estate and although I am not doing the legal stuff I am still the executor. However the good news is the company have agreed to take the car back. I have to wait for some paperwork to sign and then they will arrange collection to suit me. I think joedenise is probably right that it was a try on. They did try to tell me the car "may have some value". I thought the use of the word may was quite interesting. We have been watching similar cars on the auction sites and they are acheiving a sale price of less that the cost of buying a battery and that is with owned batteries so would probably have been a loss if we had bought the battery and the leased ones ones arent really moving at all. . Anyway hopefully it will be sorted very soon.Out to PO with yet another letter that I thought best to send special delivery. I called into the charity shop and bought three books.
As it has been very warm and humid today I have done absolutely nothing other than the important stuff such a walking Bear. I have just sat and been very hot. I dont cope well with warm weather. I have picked some strawberries this evening. They seem to be thriving on my neglect of themI think thats me for tonight have a good one.5 -
Great news about the car.I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)2
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