This is less bonkers than it sounds, honest!
I bought my London flat over 10 years ago.
We're selling up now, and I reckon we can afford to buy a small house in our new town, using the equity from the London flat, so we'll be mortgage free. (I do appreciate this is a very lucky position to be in).
Neither myself nor DP are in a position where we will be given any new credit at all (because we're students as we're retraining, not because of dodgy credit history I hasten to add!)
I do however have existing credit cards which i keep for emergency, and I think I am about £4K off the credit limit.
Could I use this towards an offer for the new house? How would I actually get the money out of the credit card and to the seller?! (Sorry if a stupid question but I use the card rarely, and when I do it's in shops or online).
I know it's not a great idea to get in debt, but seeing as we won't have a mortgage to pay off I don't see why not?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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threeleftfeet · 06/06/2012 16:05
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