Man of Honour
£24,000 is even better.
A 4 person couple is a bit unusual though
£24,000 is even better.
Would a mortgage lender count bonus/commission as part of a salary? I earn about 7k a year on top of my salary in commission.
Well, how else do you think the buy to letters will be able to pay their mortgages!?This!
I can easily afford mortgage payments and running a house in the local area at just under a third of my net monthly wage with plenty of disposable left over, however...the long slog saving up the 20k I'm aiming to put down as a deposit is a different matter!!!
Well, how else do you think the buy to letters will be able to pay their mortgages!?
Lots replys thanks for the feedback its like a proper forum.
I can save (and have) £500 a month so that's £6000 a year, which I suppose aint too bad. Feel a little dishearted some people telling me to giveup as it will be too hard.
Sorry, can you elaborate? I'm having a blonde moment!
Would a mortgage lender count bonus/commission as part of a salary? I earn about 7k a year on top of my salary in commission.
A lot of people who rent out houses buy them and then use the rental payments from tenants to pay the mortgage costs each months. Basically it means the owner gets an almost free house (minus deposit and other costs) at the end of it, paid for by the tenant. If rents were less than mortgage costs a lot of buy to letters wouldn't be buying to let as they would have to stump up a large proportion of the mortgage payments.
Well, I'm on minimum wage at the moment (though I often do overtime) and I'm confident I could have a decent deposit in about 3/4 years if I wanted to. I already have a little over 5k put away and I've been working for a year.
Not that I plan to be on minimum wage for the next 4 years... but you know, it's do-able should it come to be.
If I was going to buy with this income it'd have to be a flat.
40 hours a week at minimum wage is a take home of £11,287 a year.
So "a little over £5K" from that leaves ~6K a year. £500 a month. Nobody can have a job and live on £500 a month in the UK. You'd have to be homeless to live on £500 a month. So you must have someone else supporting you in order to have been able to save £5K in a year on minimum wage.
I know someone who lives on minimum wage, takes home £11,700 and pays out child maintenance of £400 a month, which leaves him just over £500. He survives, lives in a bedsit and is skint a lot, but he isn't homeless and isn't starving. (I told him to go to CSA who would reduce his child maintenance, but he says no, his kids are his responsibity, and you can't really argue with that.)
Essentially though, its doable, not easy, but doable. Edgey also mentioned he often does overtime, so I suspect that would account for at least a portion of his savings.
As for the thread topic itself, I can see anyone on minimum wage being accepted for a mortgage to begin with, let alone being able to afford the repayments, even with a sizeable deposit.
40 hours a week at minimum wage is a take home of £11,287 a year.
So "a little over £5K" from that leaves ~6K a year. £500 a month. Nobody can have a job and live on £500 a month in the UK. You'd have to be homeless to live on £500 a month. So you must have someone else supporting you in order to have been able to save £5K in a year on minimum wage.
3-Works 60-70 hours a week at min wage (fool)
40 hours a week at minimum wage is a take home of £11,287 a year.
So "a little over £5K" from that leaves ~6K a year. £500 a month. Nobody can have a job and live on £500 a month in the UK. You'd have to be homeless to live on £500 a month. So you must have someone else supporting you in order to have been able to save £5K in a year on minimum wage.
I save £500 month on low wage of £6.55, but I do live at home so im saving as much as I can, its doable depending on peoples circumstances.
I save £500 month on low wage of £6.55, but I do live at home so im saving as much as I can, its doable depending on peoples circumstances.
[..] So you must have someone else supporting you in order to have been able to save £5K in a year on minimum wage.
As I said in the post you replied to:
It's doable if you have someone else supporting you, sure. Nobody's disputing that.