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    Joint Mortgage One person living there.

    We are going to look into this too. Might make life less complicated....
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    Joint Mortgage One person living there.

    This is sort of how we have it worked out in our discussion. Maybe my original post wasnt very clear. Unfortunately we have about 50k negative equity at the moment and neither of us would be in a position to pay to exit the arrangement.
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    Joint Mortgage One person living there.

    Thanks for the helpful replies. We are trying to come to an arrangement that suits us both. I'm moving in with my partner and he is getting married and wants to stay in the house with his wife. Otherwise I would have rented my half of the place to a tenant. It just happens that the market...
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    Joint Mortgage One person living there.

    This is an interesting point..... I presume there is some way that one person can remain in the property and pay what amounts to rent to stay there without causing this problem?
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    Joint Mortgage One person living there.

    Hi, I have a joint mortgage with a friend on a house from a few years back. We both lived there. I'm moving out and we have agreed that he will pay the mortgage and management fees and we'll retain at 50:50 share of the place Just wondering how this works tax wise. Will it mean that...
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    Debt issues, how to approach discussions with bank

    Thanks for the helpful replies. Repayments are around 1150/month over 10yrs. If I go for interest only then its just under 500e/month for 3 yrs followed by 1500e/month for 7 yrs. 2nd option seems unmanageable as with things the way they are my take home pay wont be increasing much over...
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    Debt issues, how to approach discussions with bank

    I went back to college 4 years ago do a degree. Funding it was dependent on some saving and a bank loan. At the time the bank was generous as the pay for people in my profession was very good back then. 4 years on and times have changed drastically. Pay has halved and will fall further and I...
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    rent-a-room??

    Hi, my friend and I bought an apartment in 2006. 50:50 investment. He got married last year and moved in with his wife. I still live in the apartment. Since then we have had 2 rooms rented and will probably go over 10,000 rent this year. Can someone explain how we should declare this to...
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    Gas Boiler overflow

    Cheers for that, dont seem to have gotten the PM can you send it again? Thanks again
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    Gas Boiler overflow

    cheers, anyone know a good, reasonable gas engineer in dublin (navan road)?
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    Gas Boiler overflow

    Hi, my gas boilers overflow pipe is dripping when the boiler is running. Anybody know what the problem is here. The pressure gauge is at 1.5bar. Do I need to get it serviced or repaired?
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    Management Fees coming down?

    sorry seem to have opened a discussion about lots of stuff. Thanks for your points but I just wanted to get an idea whether people were seeing a reduction or an increase in management fees................
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    Management Fees coming down?

    Hey there, I'm trying to gauge whether the deflation in the economy is being match by deflation in apartment management fees. I'm just back from my companies AGM and it looks like they are trying to put ours up........crazy!! So here goes, paying 2400 for a 4 bed apartment in D15 and...
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    Selling Vodafone shares - clueless

    I've vodafone shares since they bought out eircom and have signed up to the computershare website to manage them. Recently I was updating my details online when I clicked into the outstanding payments tab. It had a couple of small amounts from cheques I hadnt cashed so I got them reissued...
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    Pension Refund from Civil Service Ireland

    Does anybody know if the pension levy is refundable if you leave the public sector after less than 2 years?
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    Will bank know we're renting?

    what about how will your new lender view your existing mortgage? They'll probably view you as a greater risk and may reflect this in the rate they offer you
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    Best Buy Best Credit Card Reward Schemes

    Halifax have bumped their interest rate up to 11.7% [broken link removed] still credit €100 after 1st purchase or 6 month interest free until 31st Mar 09....
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    FTB's Mortgage Declined

    Not sure how renting in a market where property prices are falling can cost you more? maybe in monthly outgoings for the next year, but if prices fall 20% surely having a 20% smaller mortgage by waiting a year would make more sense than having a few hundred euro extra a month for the next year...
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    Bad Debt...young and foolish

    well the first thing you need to do is use the CU savings to pay down your highest interest rate CC. Having CU savings at the same time as credit card debt is madness!!
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    Mortgage with Parents

    Are you overcomplicating this a bit? Parents buy house, you rent it from them....end of story. Then you can arrange it to be left to you in will or gifted to you at some stage. Or buy it off them at a later date. Turning your parents into a lending institution so you can "own" your own...
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