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mortgages

  1. Mad Cyril

    HSBC (re)mortgages

    Anyone else looking at these? £599 arrangement fee for a three year fixed rate seems pretty good.
  2. sufc_tom

    Sickening

    Today at work a guy come in to buy a couple of trousers and started to tell me he had no money. I immediately thought as he must be in his 70's - 80's it might be because of his age. But no. He said that his wife is in a care home (bearing in mind he WEEK, for her to be in this home. And as...
  3. seany t

    I'd quite like to buy a flat with my girlfriend, but it's (almost) literally impossib

    Having watched house and flat prices soar now for about 15 years, I kinda always suspected they'd have to come down again at some point. And indeed they have of late. Yet STILL it's practically a dream for a first time buyer. Having had a chat with a financial advisor, we've got a few options...
  4. Aberdeen Shrimper

    AIG ends Man Utd sponsorship deal

    The troubled US insurer AIG will not be renewing its shirt sponsorship deal with Manchester United that expires in May 2010. AIG agreed to pay £14m-a-year for four years for the shirt sponsorship and also has a longer £5m-a-year deal to run MU Finance. It is currently restructuring itself...
  5. Andy_Shrimp

    Your New Home

    Was listestening to Vine on Radio 2 a few days ago. The subject was "Would You Buy a House that had been "Repo"" One guy came on and said that it was all the homeowners fault and he had no sympathy. Others had no problem. Then what seemed a majority said that it would have bad Karma. I...
  6. Peterborough - The Posh

    Anyone up for an away day delegation to Peterborough ? Not the football club, but the Land Registry. May not be common knowledge but the public are entitled to carry out personal searches to determine land owners + obtain copies of register entries and all or any mortgages and charges. This...
  7. DTS

    How too take this joke forward?

    Rightio, Basically on Monday Ben at work got a really weird email from a customer on Friday last week. This email was from someone called Mr Slater - The bloke basically said that who the hell was Ben to ask him about his personal details - All he wanted was a mortgage quote? He asked Ben is he...
  8. DTS

    Best practical joke you have played?

    Mine must have been about 7 years ago. I was working for Yorkshire Building Society at the time in a small branch outside Brighton. My old boss was called Greeny. Really nice bloke if not a little weird but me and him got on great. He was always coming in with hooky goods he had for sale or...
  9. DTS

    My work related dilema.

    Right, Times are tough as a mortgage broker at the moment. The Bank of England have done all he can to make buying a less and less attractive proposition. As a result we are having to all the networking and calling on our resources we can to get us through a quiet period. As a result I am...
  10. Mad Cyril

    Moving Mortgages

    Has anyone switched Mortgage recently? My reduced rate with Northern Rock is about to expire and I am looking for any decent deals that may be worth switching to.
  11. Matt the Shrimp

    Letter to the Chancellor...

    Oops, looks like Mervyn has had to write to Gordon to explain why inflation this month is at 3.1%... clicky (pdf) Two thoughts: 1. Interest rates will be up again next month - watch out all those on anything other than fixed rate mortgages. 2. This paragraph leapt out: Why did CPI inflation...
  12. DTS

    Your "I wonder where I would be now" Moment.

    You know the feeling. Sometimes you sit there and think I wonder what if that moment or decision you made had not been made. Mine has got to be the day I got my first job in Mortgages. I had been for loads of random interviews and had no idea what I really wanted to do. had loads of knock...
  13. DTS

    I hate Geordies

    I spent half my day yesterday on the phone to poxy Northern Rock trying to get clients mortgages approved and I must say I have never spoken to a thicker collection of no-marks in my life. Today I have the delight in my lunch hour of calling Orange to try and get myself a new tarrif and I can...
  14. DTS

    New Batch of Youth Players

    Accoridng to page 474 of teletext we have taken on seven new youth players to scholarship. Thw lucky bastards are James Lindie, Richard Priest, Jamie Forshaw, Luke Thulbourne, Rhys Henry, Johhny Heard and Dan Harvey. Sadly for the 10th year running despite being better than all of them put...
  15. DTS

    4 letter surname team

    Due to my Nazi Esque boss making us all work to 5pm on xmas eve I am stuck in the office. As no-one in there right mind wants to talk about Mortgages on Christmas Eve and in an attempt to relieve the bordem I am trying to make up a Blues team whos surnames all have four letter Eg Micheal OWEN or...
  16. palexander

    Spare a thought for Tilly...

    Must be tough for Tilly today as a rookie manager having to call people in with families and mortgages etc to tell them they are out of a job. I remember reading Gary Nelsons 2 books (excellent BTW) that he said that it was horrible being released by Alan Curbishley at Charlton, then a year...
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