Owning your own home

Had one of their EAs over, seemed like a nice guy with a lot of experience, taking him on face value.

Then they kinda cocked up the valuation stuff, sent me someone else's valuation

Kinda gave up at that point. They never chased. But then neither did KFH.

I might give them a chance with their 'free' valuation to see how efficient it all is. Those here in the office who carry out mortgage valautions don't rate their admin/customer service, but I'm hoping potential buyers won't have to deal with them much.

Are you signing the new place before signing to sell the old place? Double dose of brave pills there

Just educated our neighbour about the party wall act :(

But I want to start in a week

you can’t always get what you want

Love the aphex twin.

I have been with Bulb Energy a year.

As recognition of that, they are offering double referral kick back for the week.

So if you sign up to Bulb this week using my code you get £100 credit in your account and so do I.
http://www.bulb.co.uk/refer/will1561

Cheaper than other utilities, 100% renewable energy, no contract exit fees and £100 in your sky rocket?
Get with the programme.

Yeah I'll be signing up to them once I move... Ecotricity has got kinda expensive.

Move in the next week and it gets cheaper

Are they compatible with me smart meters and will the replace them if not?need to get out of it from British Gas, as prices are going up and up..

We have a smart meter for the elec, that british gas put in.

Don't know what compatible means, I still have to input readings.

Compatible means that the readings from them go direct to bulb so I don’t have to send readings they do it automatically.
Read reports that not all smart meters work with electric/gas suppliers, so don’t want to have to swap smart meters everytime I swap suppliers, if I swap suppliers in the future..

Yeah, so that's a no I guess.

https://help.bulb.co.uk/hc/en-us/articles/115001232092-Can-I-switch-to-Bulb-with-a-smart-meter-

Cheers, I've been meaning to switch for a while and these seem decent.

check out the new BG tariff that's being talked about on moneysavingexpert (link), supposed to be open for existing customers too.

I reckon sometime in the next couple of years they'll sort out the 'smart meters can only report to their original supplier' nonsense.

The regulators will just force the original suppliers to forward on the readings to the relevant suppliers much like you just get a PAC to switch mobile contracts.

I can't think of any technological reason why they can't solve it this way, but everyone seems to think that the only solution is a smarter smart meter.

Cheers. You're going to have a lot of free power...

100% renewable electricity

ftfy
(10% "green" gas)

Just used this, thanks.

Biogas is defined as a renewable source of energy.

Damn, WJP got his 1 year Bulb anniversary a day before me
£100 for anyone here too
https://bulb.co.uk/refer/duncanhope

That wasn't my quibble :)
It's the other 90% of the gas they supply.
I'm with bulb too but their gas is 90% fossil fuel.

Gah! Just signed up for Bulb using @cjr ‘s poxy £50 code. Didn’t know I’ll have to read the meters myself. Isn’t it almost 2019?

it's time to re mortgage. Thinking a 5 year fixed rate is best with the uncertainty of brexit and of our current situation, (may be heading back to uk) is anyone else looking at new mortgages atm and any thoughts on best deals etc.

I went through the the person that organized ours, got a five year fixed, our LTV is now about 72%.

This will mean NADA when the apocalypse comes.