New property investment concept; BTLI

[Sysman]

Trying to guess what it meant before opening the thread I came up with:

Buy To Leg It.

Definitely an option if you hit negative equity big time. Not necessarily a sensible option, but an option nevertheless.

[DiscoStu]

Dirty SPEKULANT!

[The Wikir Man]

Your signature doesn't work on this PC - I get little squares instead of the first and last characters.

HTH.

[Francko]

and the house is worth more than I owe. Is this an unfamiliar position for many Brits?

For all those who bought in UK after 2006, yes. And there is a risk of further price falls too, so at the moment it's not necessarily the best strategy.

[NickFitz]

Your signature doesn't work on this PC - I get little squares instead of the first and last characters.

HTH.

You need to update your fonts to ones with decent Unicode support. Little squares are very 1990s.

Oh, unless you're using IE, in which case it's the browser's fault: MS couldn't be bothered to implement font substitution according to the spec (unlike all other browsers), and Verdana doesn't include Latin Small Letter Turned e (U+01dd) or Latin Small Letter Turned w (U+028d).

[The Wikir Man]

You need to update your fonts to ones with decent Unicode support. Little squares are very 1990s.

Oh, unless you're using IE, in which case it's the browser's fault: MS couldn't be bothered to implement font substitution according to the spec (unlike all other browsers), and Verdana doesn't include Latin Small Letter Turned e (U+01dd) or Latin Small Letter Turned w (U+028d).

IE6

Not allowed to update anything on work PC.