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"Buying my first home - well, trying to!!"

i am 26yrs old and i am trying to become a first time buyer. i plan to buy with my partner but on my income only lets us get someowhere for about £120,000 so i am struggling to get a mortgage that will let me buy anything other than a run down wreck of a place!!

what can i do and are there any others out there who are having these problems??

i saw all that coverage in the papers at the weekend about shared ownership. has anyone got any experience with this?

any good first time buyer websites out there?

Willowjoe wrote:
> sixth form!!!!! God, i am 27 and struggling to get ontot the ladder...
> plenty of time yet son!!

You said you was 26 in the original post!

I'VE SPOTTED A FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'd apologise if you could prove that I'm wrong...otherwise you'll just have to live with it. I work in IT and Telecoms Purchasing for a major tour operator. Not going to say anymore than that...

begs the question... what do you do for a living? am i going to far to ask for an apology?

sixth form!!!!! God, i am 27 and struggling to get ontot the ladder... plenty of time yet son!!

I live with my parents. I've got to go through two years of sixth form before worrying about houses.

I think.

*Shrugs* Meh, I like being evil. I have a good job, a good wife and a good house, that should make me smug, but actually it makes me arrogant...

cheers Rai, are you renting or have you bought a house? do you know any good plumbers?

Well, at least you aren't trying to push spam website onto us.

I'm not an expert on mortgages and houses, so I'll just sit here. Welcome to the site.

And yeah, there are loads like 'those two'

*Points evil finger*

mortgages seem to be going down at the moment now that they think that the interest rate will go down or stay the same. nationwide have a fixed for 2 years at 4.69%. sounds good to me, have you had experience with nationwide or are you with someone else?

Willowjoe wrote:
> JAT??? what are you on about?

Jat= Just arrived.

Good luck with the morgage. Thankfully we got our house when the prices were reasonable :)