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samharber has got bored with waiting for me to buy the house next to him, and is buying it himself (with a work colleague) to rent out. They're charging less than bacony and I are paying together right now, but bacony has already said she doesn't think the house there is large enough for the two of us to live in properly, and I don't think I want to pay that much by myself. Well, I could afford it, but it would curtail my frivolous spending somewhat. And anyway, it's a bad idea to have a mate as your landlord. I'll just have to find somewhere else to live when the contract runs out in June...
If only house-buying wasn't so daunting. It's not the expense, I'm reasonably sure I could afford it, it's just having to talk to a mortgage person, and a lawyer, and a surveyor and whatever the hell else and get it all organised ... if somebody would do all that for me and all I had to do was hand over the cash, I would probably have bought the house myself. I know that people are going to say that if Sam and Nook can manage it then it can't be that tricky, but that doesn't make it any less scary.
Oh well, I'm young yet. No need to rush into buying a house just because it's next door to my friends...
UPDATE: Having consulted withbacony, we have decided to see if Sam is still willing to rent to us. TO BE CONTINUMANUDE>
samharber has got bored with waiting for me to buy the house next to him, and is buying it himself (with a work colleague) to rent out. They're charging less than bacony and I are paying together right now, but bacony has already said she doesn't think the house there is large enough for the two of us to live in properly, and I don't think I want to pay that much by myself. Well, I could afford it, but it would curtail my frivolous spending somewhat. And anyway, it's a bad idea to have a mate as your landlord. I'll just have to find somewhere else to live when the contract runs out in June...If only house-buying wasn't so daunting. It's not the expense, I'm reasonably sure I could afford it, it's just having to talk to a mortgage person, and a lawyer, and a surveyor and whatever the hell else and get it all organised ... if somebody would do all that for me and all I had to do was hand over the cash, I would probably have bought the house myself. I know that people are going to say that if Sam and Nook can manage it then it can't be that tricky, but that doesn't make it any less scary.
Oh well, I'm young yet. No need to rush into buying a house just because it's next door to my friends...
UPDATE: Having consulted with
bacony, we have decided to see if Sam is still willing to rent to us. TO BE CONTINUMANUDE>
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Re: MOVE TO BOLTON, DANG YOU!!!
Date: 2004-03-18 03:59 am (UTC)Intrest only is where you only pay off the intrest of the ammount you borrow over the 25 year period and then you're still left oweing the value of your house. This is usually a bad idea. Typically you'd have an endowment or something to pay off the value of the house in the end.
With a repayment mortgage you actually pay off both the intrest as well as a chunk of the money you actually owe for the house each month. It's what we've got for our house, we've already payed off several thousand pounds in 23 years we will own it outright.
You then have fixed rate or variable rate mortgages, which dictate how your intrest is calculated. For a fixed rate intrest will be fixed for a set term, whilst a variable rate will usually fluctuate with the base intrest rate. Variable are cheaper but exposes you to the risk of intrest rate increases.