Living abroad tips and hints for money savers

Nanda_devi

Hi DG no as a none resident of UK i;m not eligabe to vote and Droopsnout I don.t have a mortgage with the bank only my current account my mortgagae is with Birmingham Midshire. Stupid to think of all this equity in my house and not beeing able to get it and yes I thought about equity release but after reading Martins views he said he cant find any good points for it. Maybe its time to sell up Ah !!! then i'm hit with capital gains as well as taking money below the market value at the moment.I'll work it out i;m sure thanks everyone nice to know there someone out there on my side just want to get back to my garden,mountains and peace.

Edinburghlass_2

Nanda_devi wrote: »

Would appreciate some advise from anyone that can advise.I live in India but due to ill health I find I am in the UK for about six more months until I return to my house. I'm 62 years old have a £200,000 house with an outstanding mortgage of £9,000 I have never defaulted on my mortgage and have a long standing tenent in my propertyI'm fast running out of money and can't access my Indian bank account so I want to top up my mortgage by 5,000 but rules have changed and it appears as i,m not on the electrol role this is not possible any feed back from you intelectual people out there would appreciate it thanks.

I'm going to copy this post out of the thread and put it in the Mortgage Board and see if any of the posters across there can help.

Nanda_devi

Thank you sooooooooooooo much all of you

Nanda_devi

Hi Edinburghlass can you help i'm finding it difficult to find the mortgage board thread which you posted my situation on there seems to be so many thanks

donny-gal

Try here.
DG

hartcjhart

gallygirl wrote: »

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Em, no unfortunately. Hopefully it was one of my lovely, friendly, caring, generous neighbours :wave:

Ah well, at least the Euro is going down a bit

if you have spanish neighbours there's a good chance,
apparentley 3 spaniards shared the ticket and were helicoptered out of mojacar by the guardia:T

gallygirl

hartcjhart wrote: »

if you have spanish neighbours there's a good chance,
apparentley 3 spaniards shared the ticket and were helicoptered out of mojacar by the guardia:T

No, not my neighbours, but lovely it's gone locally, and hopefully 3 different families will benefit :j

LesD

HappyinSpain wrote: »

We're in Camposol, Mazarron. We haven't used Almeria airport, normally we try to get flights from San Javier to Bournemouth (our favourites), and Bournemouth is closest to our family in the UK. We have tried Birmingham, Bristol, Gatwick and of course the dreaded Stansted.

Hello HiS.

We've also got a place on Camposol. Only visit now and then though.

For log burners, I assume you've been in to Chimeneas Llamas in the town. They are well-recommended and have installed many throughout Camposol. They know the quirks of MASA construction!


NEW TOPIC - Car Hire.

While I'm here, can I just mention that Spanish car hire prices seem to be falling this year. Not like last year when they always seemed to be increasing.

In early December, I was quoted €259 for 16 days in March. When I booked at the end of that month, I got it for €189. And I've now just had it reduced to €127! That's only about £7 a day. Back to the good-old-days prices!

Tugair_2

There is a very interesting article recently posted on the 'Eye on Spain' website regarding property prices and the demise of Spanish Estate Agents. Search for Death of Estate Agents to see what is now happening with their banks.

We had a very bad experience when we were thinking of buying a couple of years back and will only rent now.

droopsnout

Pretty scary stuff. And I noticed on the site's home page that the two Google ads were for repossessed houses.

Welcome to MSE, Tugair, and welcome to the thread.