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Buying out an ex? Or other options?
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MFWannabe said:SecondStar said:MFWannabe said:Are you amicable? You say in case you split up? So have you split or thinking of it?Is it an option to still both live in the house until fixed rate is up? Would be easier to sort then as no ERC and you could continue to save? Is it an option to get second job to help you save more between now and then?Would he be willing to move to move back to parents and wait for his money?When the fixed rate is up you should be able to remortgage in your name and buy him out?I don’t think I could live with him as a housemate, or at least not for a year.
I don’t believe he would move back to his parents, unless I was buying him out. I don’t know whether he would rather live as housemates, or live with his parents.
I could look for a Saturday job alongside my current job.
May be worth getting a valuation then and checking how much your ERC is?Sell up and have a clean break x
A clean break would be blissful, if I’m honest. It’s all I think I really want.
It’s just trying to find the best way to do it, that doesn’t leave me both penniless and homeless, or stuck under the same roof as him for too long.
Will dig out the mortgage docs to check the ERC, and see about speaking to an estate agent, solicitor, and maybe a mortgage advisor, on the down-low as well.‘When you only have two pennies left in the world, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will sustain life, the flowers will give you a reason to live.’Frugal living in 2024.
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SecondStar said:MFWannabe said:SecondStar said:MFWannabe said:Are you amicable? You say in case you split up? So have you split or thinking of it?Is it an option to still both live in the house until fixed rate is up? Would be easier to sort then as no ERC and you could continue to save? Is it an option to get second job to help you save more between now and then?Would he be willing to move to move back to parents and wait for his money?When the fixed rate is up you should be able to remortgage in your name and buy him out?I don’t think I could live with him as a housemate, or at least not for a year.
I don’t believe he would move back to his parents, unless I was buying him out. I don’t know whether he would rather live as housemates, or live with his parents.
I could look for a Saturday job alongside my current job.
May be worth getting a valuation then and checking how much your ERC is?Sell up and have a clean break x
A clean break would be blissful, if I’m honest. It’s all I think I really want.
It’s just trying to find the best way to do it, that doesn’t leave me both penniless and homeless, or stuck under the same roof as him for too long.
Will dig out the mortgage docs to check the ERC, and see about speaking to an estate agent, solicitor, and maybe a mortgage advisor, on the down-low as well.SecondStar said:MFWannabe said:SecondStar said:MFWannabe said:Are you amicable? You say in case you split up? So have you split or thinking of it?Is it an option to still both live in the house until fixed rate is up? Would be easier to sort then as no ERC and you could continue to save? Is it an option to get second job to help you save more between now and then?Would he be willing to move to move back to parents and wait for his money?When the fixed rate is up you should be able to remortgage in your name and buy him out?I don’t think I could live with him as a housemate, or at least not for a year.
I don’t believe he would move back to his parents, unless I was buying him out. I don’t know whether he would rather live as housemates, or live with his parents.
I could look for a Saturday job alongside my current job.
May be worth getting a valuation then and checking how much your ERC is?Sell up and have a clean break x
A clean break would be blissful, if I’m honest. It’s all I think I really want.
It’s just trying to find the best way to do it, that doesn’t leave me both penniless and homeless, or stuck under the same roof as him for too long.
Will dig out the mortgage docs to check the ERC, and see about speaking to an estate agent, solicitor, and maybe a mortgage advisor, on the down-low as well.
Have been there and it’s not a nice place to be but you’ll come out stronger 👍MFW 2025 #50: £1989.73/£600007/03/25: Mortgage: £67,000.00
12/08/25: Mortgage: £62,500.00
12/06/25: Mortgage: £65,000.00
18/01/25: Mortgage: £68,500.14
27/12/24: Mortgage: £69,278.38
27/12/24: Debt: £0 🥳😁
27/12/24: Savings: £12,000
12/08/25: Savings: £12,0001
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