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Getting a mortgage with large outstanding debt that defaulted more than 10yrs ago
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sarahe
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04/02/2022 - 9:47 pm

So myself & my husband have £56,000 of o/s debt on low monthly repayment plans which all defaulted more than 10yrs ago.
Our finances are much improved with a decent income but we cannot afford to pay the debt off, therefore it has been fine just paying a minimums amount for many years. We’d really like to get a mortgage and have been generously been gifted 50% of the value of the property from family if we go ahead (they are unaware of the debt). We can only get a tiny mortgage when we’ve looked into it due to our debt.
My question is, if we offer & are accepted by the creditors to pay a lower amount to pay off the debts will this go against our credit report? Currently our credit rating is really good as these are such old debts they don’t show & I understand the default disappears after 6yrs whether paid off or not. But if we managed to get the creditors to accept & pay off the debts will it be worth it to then get a mortgage or will our credit file then go down a lot?

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04/02/2022 - 9:57 pm

Hi there,

Settling debts will only ever improve your position, but in this scenario I’d speak to a specialist broker as there should be options.

Best of luck

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sarahe
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05/02/2022 - 6:38 pm

I’ve spoken to a number brokers & no one seems to be able to confirm anything and are all a bit vague, so a specialist broker sounds like an option, can anyone recommend one they’ve used or is Simply Adverse a specialist broker? Thanks

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05/02/2022 - 6:58 pm

We are certainly a specialist, but there are others.

We are open until 8pm tonight and tomorrow if you did want to talk through…

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