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  1. Thanks for that dx. That actually makes sense now. I'll update once I've received the refund and confirmation of the charge being removed.
  2. Thanks Andy. I'm intrigued to know what on earth the woman dealing with my complaint came across to suddenly write off the balance and refund my payments. However, I won't be questioning it, it all seems to good to be true... I'm hoping it's not of course.
  3. Hi Further to my earlier posts, I continued to try and reason with Lowell's advising that no court action had ever been taking on my account and a complaint was raised on my behalf. I didn't submit a complaint but they raised one anyway. I only asked that someone with a bit of knowledge review my account and the settlement offer I had made. Today I received an email from their customer relations department advising that my complaint was upheld and the following would happen. 1) £100 in compensation for the misinformation they had given me. 2) close my account and no further amount will be due by me, they advised I cancel my monthly payment. 3) refund any payments made since march 2016 totalling £2440. 4) arrange with welcome to remove the charge from my property. I have no idea why they have suddenly made such a dramatic decision, at best I had hoped to reach a reduced settlement, this is completely out of the blue. I will await with baited breath on my refund and the charge to be removed but will post if they are true to their word. Thanks
  4. Thanks dx, I've drafted a letter back asking them to explain the litigation and to explain how they deemed it ok to make an initial offer! We'll see what they come back with, under the current climate you would think they'd be snapping up settlement offers. I'll keep you posted.
  5. Hi folks, Hope everyone is keeping safe just now. I had an old thread on here regarding my ongoing secured loan saga with Lowell's. To cut a long story short, they offered me a discounted settlement last year of 4.5k on a balance of around 11k, unfortunately I had no way of making the payment at the time. Move on a year and I've saved a little I wrote to them making an offer of 3k, they've since written back saying they can't offer a discount on my "litigated account" as it's "deemed payable by the courts". Firstly, they were the ones that offered me a settlement last year and nothing has changed since then, secondly, theres never been any courts involved, I've defaulted but they never issued a ccj so what are they speaking about? I'm so confused with this lot, nothing ever makes sense! I also reduced my payment to just a fiver a month, I have no intention of increasing this again, under current circumstances why not take the settlement instead of five pound a month for the next hundred years! They've never been able to produce a legible credit agreement so I assume on that basis, it can't be taken to court either? Thanks
  6. Ha ha sorry!! So what should I do in the meantime? Wait and see if another offer comes my way?
  7. Thanks dx, I couldn't afford to pay what they are offering now anyway so no payment will be getting made. I will write to them anyway and just say that I cant afford to make a payment for that amount, however, ask them to confirm that they would remove the charge and mark the debt as fully settled if I were to settle in the future (FYI this debt has never appeared on me or my partners credit file for some unknown reason). I defaulted with Welcome years ago and they issued default notices at the time. I cant figure out why Lowells have suddenly offered a reduced settlement when the FSO can uphold the complaint, I would of thought they'd hold out for all they can get since apparently I don't have a leg to stand on now. Is it anything to do with them not being able to produce a legible credit agreement, if they cant enforce the loan are they just trying to get what they can?
  8. Thsnks dx, I'll have a nose myself. If I I can figure out where to conjure up 4.5k to pay the reduced settlement, there's no way I'd pay it without written confirmation from them that they'd remove the charge. I wonder, should I send them a letter just now saying I am trying to come up with funds to agree a reduced settlement but could they confirm in the meantime that the charge would be removed? Least that way I'd have confirmation before proceeding?
  9. Thanks ill do the spreadsheet and let you know the outcome. Should I write to lowells and say I can't afford this at this time and see what they say? Are they known for not removing charges? I had assumed if you settled even a reduced amount the charge would be removed? Is this not the case? I feel so stuck now since the fso won't help.
  10. It is a joint loan on a jointly owned property. We plan to sell next year but paying welcome the full amount would eat massively into our deposit. I'd be happy to pay the reduced settlement on sale but would they agree to that? It's still a year away. if they get wind of a sale they'll want the full amount? The 100s of charges were detailed in my complaint to fso. Is it something to possibly write to lowells about? Say I'd settle for the 60% reduction minus all the charges? I'm so annoyed with the fso outcome but the 60% reduction is at least a massive step forward so something positive to work on at least
  11. OK I had got my hopes up there too but I've just checked my email and there's a response from the adjudicator dealing with my case at fso. So he says when welcome got into financial difficulty some years ago, they became protected by "the scheme" meaning customers can't raise claims, he says he believes we weren't advised of this at the time and sympathises but cannot uphold the complaint on the basis welcome are covered by the scheme. This seems really unfair to me since I'd never heard of this scheme until recently. He did say we could get someone to look into this further for us. I'm not sure where to go with this now. We can't afford to pay the reduced settlement. Should we ask the fso to look into agsin or is it pointless? Or should I start communicating with lowells to get something lower? Im struggling to figure out why they're now offering this discount if the complaint can't be upheld.
  12. Hi all, I just wanted to send a quick update on my position with welcome finance and possibly get advice on the next step. I have a complaint in with the fso regarding welcome, I haven't had any outcome yet but did get an email stating they were still waiting on information from welcome. Anyway today in the post, I had a letter from the dca, lowells offering a whopping 60% discount if I settle before May 7. Now I've asked for full and final settlement before and been told not a chance so why now? Are welcome panicking or am I wishful thinking? I don't have any funds to pay it anyway so I can't do anything. Should I acknowledge the letter or ignore it until I get a response from the fso? Thanks in advance
  13. Hi, Sorry for jumping onto the post, I'm looking to calculate mortgage arrears charges too but I cant find the spreadsheets for doing this, the new layout has me confused! Any ideas? Thanks
  14. Hi all and happy new year! I just wanted to give an update on the situation with WF just in case anyone is in a similar situation. I finally received my SAR from WF which had all my paperwork covering all the relevant years. I then drafted a complaint to them with a list of all the things I wanted answers too. I have now had a response from them. Here are a few of the things from my complaint that were interesting reading: I asked who Blue Sky and SLS were and what fees were paid to them - they confirmed these were brokers but no fees had been charged (I find this hard to believe, brokers working for free?!?) I asked for a legible copy of my loan agreement as the one provided is barely legible - they enlarged the blurred copy and sent it back (funnily enough, I still cant read it) I asked for an explanation of the harassment I had received at my work and home from WF employees, in particular I asked about two incidents where they spoke to a neighbour and my mother about my financial difficulties as neither of these incidents were recorded on their communications log - they apologised for the harassment and said they could not see any such incidents on the communications log (they are not on the communication log hence my reason for asking!!!) I asked why our house value had been significantly overstated by them. We gave them an estimated house value and they have overstated it to show an LTV of 81%, had they used our figures the LTV would have been over 100%. There was no equity in the property, we had just purchased it via 110% NR mortgage which WF were aware. I assume if they had used our value the loan would not have been approved? WF responded by saying the house value and equity is irrelevant and the loan was approved based purely on our income - I'm not sure I understand this, it was a secured loan - is the equity not what the loan is secured against? if it had been based purely on income should it not have been a personal loan? Some other things that cropped up were, we were offered no advice whatsoever on the risks at the time of taking out the loan, no cooling off period or cancellation notice were provided, no default notices were ever issued (they have now provided these), I also asked for a copy of the terms and conditions of the loan as I want to see if the balance can be transferred to a new property but they haven't been able to provide these either. I have issues with the balance of the loan too, the initial loan was 13k, I have paid 13k now and the remaining balance is around 12k, however, the interest was frozen around 10 years ago so I'm not understanding how there can still be 12k left to pay. I am continuing to pay this though albeit slowly! My next step is to take it to the financial ombudsman and hopefully get a more satisfactory response from them. I will update with any success. DF
  15. Great thanks dx, sorry for confusion. I'll get that done and wait with baited breath for their next response......
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