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My battle plans are drawn and ready. The BR route is my final weapon of Mass destruction. Firstly, the house will have to go,,, Now with a Secured Loan on it I don't know if it will hit the just break clear or slight negative equity... Will be off today or tomorrow to the Estate agents. Second ring Mortgage company and First plus and tell em, which is true, my overtime has stopped I am hanging on a precarious edge here... maybe offer them a £100 a month each till house is sold or they can go for Repo,,,, I am not bothered which.

 

I am 52 years of age, had a bad tooth a few months back could not even afford to go to dentist,,, nearly OD on codeine trying to stop the pain. Enough is Enough. Have spoken with Girlee friend and she says fine come back and live with her. My work colleagues are going to buy a lot of my house-hold items so will make some dosh there and pay off a few of my little debts... Then it will be a waiting game,,, I WILL NEVER BE BUYING ANOTHER HOUSE, I NEVER WANT CREDIT AGAIN... SO I EITHER LEAVE ME CREDIT FILE BASHED AND JUST CONTINUE ON....with the knowledge that if one of my creditors goes a bit heavy handed I can just go BR and have a clean start over... I have lived for nearly three years without credit... hard at first but you soon adjust.

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there are no implications on your part you are simply exercising your rights....they have to supply the paperwork or they can go to hell simple as that...cabot will charge you interest whether you are paying or not and you will continue to be a valued customer from now until doomsday unless you take a stand,,,exercise your rights and tell em to go and b*g off

 

Hi debt4get

Re this still outstanding loan....

 

I recently did an online check of my credit check. I was surprised that all was not bad news. Everything was up to date over the last 18mths which made me feel more in control. However. This and the Link loan also mentioned in this thread both showed one D for default, but then didnt contiinue to show continual D's ... do you know if that is usual, or would an account that continued to be in default would show continual D's?

 

Also regarding this debt. I havent heard anything from them since their reply on in June 2011.

 

I have recently taken advice from a third party who are offering to help me budget and pay debts etc. The majority of the money they will pay to these 2 debts.

Do you think I should go down the route doing this and making the kids eat beans everyday for 4yrs. Or can I contest ownership of these now since its ages and they still havent come up with the original agreement.

The advisor said that since I havent paid anything for so long, they will prob be happy to be receiving anything. last letter from Cabot states £2592 outstanding.

 

Any advise on how to move forward with this.

My credit apart from these two seems ok. Im prob going to have to move house in 2 years time and I dont want to be in the position of being refused a mortgage when I need one. Which is also a big factor in this.

T

Advice gratefully received!

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if cabot havent gone near a court in all this time the chances of this happening now is nil to zero..if the adviser you are talking to is offering to budget and pay the debt, but leaving you financially destitute, then i personally wouldnt bother, that said even if you arrange a payment plan over 4 years getting a mortgage in 2 years is probably going to be nigh impossible, you could try a full and final settlement with them if you can afford it...try starting at about 10% of the value of the debt, they recently rang me after i offered an f and f 2 years ago of £200 on a alleged £1200 debt a lot of charges/interest that they have put on..now 2 years down the line 'they are interested to discuss my offer' ...

if they still havent supplied paperwork, still havent issued any court proceedings, then the debt is going to be off your credit file in 4 years anyway whether you give them anything or not...as to how the credit files work, have to be honest havent got a clue never looked at mine...personally i would contest..but that me and it really does depend on your circumstances etc

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you could try a full and final settlement with them if you can afford it...try starting at about 10% of the value of the debt, they recently rang me after i offered an f and f 2 years ago of £200 on a alleged £1200 debt a lot of charges/interest that they have put on..now 2 years down the line 'they are interested to discuss my offer' ...

if they still havent supplied paperwork, still havent issued any court proceedings, then the debt is going to be off your credit file in 4 years anyway whether you give them anything or not...as to how the credit files work, have to be honest havent got a clue never looked at mine...personally i would contest..but that me and it really does depend on your circumstances etc

 

Thanks for the reply. Did you write to make a f and f offer? If so, how did you word it? Do you have a skeleton I could use? Might give that a last chance. Feels like I might be waking a sleeping demon tho!!

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actually i did it over the phone, but you can write, put i am making a full and final offer of XXXX and this is a time limited offer of 14 days, it is also dependent on you putting satisfied on my credit rating and an undertaking that you will not attempt to collect on the balance nor will you sell on any balance to any other debt collection agency. if these terms are acceptable please return with written confirmation...

do not take confirmation on the phone it has to be in writing...

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write first but they will insist on speaking with you onn the phone and they will ask for an I&E. Here is where you need to stand your ground. Speak to them on the phone to close it out but say 'No' to the I&E; you are offering a full and final on an unenforceable debt; if you agree it on the phone whatever you do do not pay them anything until you have their written acceptance of your F&F. There is a good F&F template on here you can use (click on library up top) or National Debt Helpline has a good template you can adapt to suit. As for a mortgage I am afraid you wouldn't get one today with a default on your file but who knows what the situation will be like in a couple of years times.

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