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Well technically yes..................just wish I could get rid of the 45K. Have thought about adding it to the mortgage but wanted to try the save up and pay in off in a cpl of years route. Everytime I get a bit of money together to pay a chunk off something happens that just seems to eat into it.
me ....I used to have bricks and mortar, but now I prefer assets that you liquidate with the click of a button. Maintenance is restricted to the server at the bank, no painting, no decorating, no leaky roof, no tenants complaining about the kitchen no poll tax, council tax, window tax, drain pipe tax etc etc etc.
Well technically yes..................just wish I could get rid of the 45K. Have thought about adding it to the mortgage but wanted to try the save up and pay in off in a cpl of years route. Everytime I get a bit of money together to pay a chunk off something happens that just seems to eat into it.
If you're able to do so (ie. you mortage is such that you don't pay too much in redemption penalties), you could shop around for a new mortgage for the whole amount (£165k) on beneficial introductory rates. If you have personal debts they are bound to be at a higher interest rate than a good mortgage, so you are having to work harder to pay the difference. Most savings (except some cash ISA's and other investments like stocks) are also at much lower interest rates than personal loans (and are taxed) so it doesn't make financial sense to have both loans and savings.
It doesn't matter about paying off 'big chunks' - that's just a psychological sop to make you feel better but it's not financially sound. Think of your debt as a patch of weeds - it's growing fast but if you nip off whatever you can as soon as you can, you undermine it's ability to spread. If you lower the interest you're paying by shifting your debt to the cheapest place, it's not only saving you money, but you will have a bit more money left over each month to pay off the capital and hence it pay less interest and so on. In my opinion.
I have a little over 1.3m in Mortage(s) and about 90k in other debt, I'm also about to purchase another business for about 250k
but its all relative to what you earn and bring in. So yes its high, but so are the incomes.
You must be praying to the Lord that interest rate don't double
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