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What do you think? Borrow more debt or not?
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostBorrowing debt? Isn't that getting a loan for a negative amount? Probably makes sense in these days of negative interest.
A CDO can be borrowed can it not? I guess that would be borrowing debt.Comment
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostAnd yet you can't be bothered to buy the roof over your head, you're hoping someone else will be forced to provide it under conditions that suit you.
Why are lefties so feckless?Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostThey need to do things properly. Get themselves a £600K mortgage on a starter bedsit.Comment
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post'We've got £80,000 in student debt. Can we borrow £100,000 for our first home?' - Telegraph
I wonder how many iCrap products they have and how much they spend on Sky TV and other such tulipe?
46k a year between the 2 of them so what they are team leaders at the local fast food stores??
Fook cnutsComment
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We own a few properties yet we find it better to rent them out and then rent somewhere ourselves.
It sounds crazy (and it probably is) but the advantages to us are:
- Rent in gives us a surplus over the rent out
- We can live in a nicer are than if we just bought there. Ok we could stump and buy but the debt involved is scary and then we are stuck there. If a load of undesirables move into the area we can just give notice and move on.
- It encourages us to have less stuff which appeals to the minimalist in me
- When the sales are on the wife and I no longer get the urge to start hoarding crap
- I hate DIY
- All property maintenance costs are on the rental properties which attract tax relief
- We can upsize and downsize quickly and without all the fees associated with house purchasing.
Disadvantages
- Landlords can be crap
- Instability; you can be out with short notice
Not for everyone I guess but makes sense for us. If there was such a thing as a secure financial investment then I suppose we wouldn't need to play around with all this buy to rent palaver but its a funny old world.Last edited by ClothCap; 20 February 2016, 21:16.I get up...Comment
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Originally posted by ClothCap View Post- Instability; you can be out with short noticeComment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostThe garden, yes. I have over a dozen kinds of edible fruit trees, and a potato and rhubarb patch, and plan to start keeping chickens.
We get our chickens from:
National Charity re-homing commercial laying hens and encouraging support for British farmers
If you're just wanting layers, they charge a couple of quid per bird, they are around 18 months old and will lay for a few years. You'll maybe get 5-6 eggs per bird per week in the summer, down to about 4 in winter, cause they lay when it's light.
Most expensive bit is the house - if you buy a cheap one (<£200) it will probably last 2 winters max. Spend £400+ and you'll get something that should last around 10 years.…Maybe we ain’t that young anymoreComment
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Originally posted by WTFH View PostWe get our chickens from:
National Charity re-homing commercial laying hens and encouraging support for British farmers
If you're just wanting layers, they charge a couple of quid per bird, they are around 18 months old and will lay for a few years. ...
I was told hens typically live for only about two years. So if they are 18 months old when I buy them, they won't be laying for long!
Mind you, at only £2 each I suppose even laying for a few months is worth it.Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ hereComment
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Originally posted by OwlHoot View PostMany thanks WTFH.
I was told hens typically live for only about two years. So if they are 18 months old when I buy them, they won't be laying for long!
Mind you, at only £2 each I suppose even laying for a few months is worth it.
Could we get even more off topic I wonder....Comment
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