Age: 33 (both)
Annual gross income from employment or profession: 39K
Annual gross income of spouse:65K
Type of employment: e.g. Civil Servant, self-employed
Private sector both.
In general are you:
(a) spending more than you earn, or
(b) saving?
saving c 1500 pm
Rough estimate of value of home bought 300K
Amount outstanding on your mortgage: hmm around 300K
What interest rate are you paying? ECB plus .95%, tracker
Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc
car loan, 8K
Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes
Savings and investments:
10K in rabo
Do you have a pension scheme? spouse has
Do you own any investment or other property? yes, house Dublin 8. Lived there 3 yrs then moved from Dublin and kept it, rent more than covers mortgage now thanks to interest only tracker mortgage again at ECB plus .95 BUT released equity to fund current house so bought for 290 originally, mortgaged for 390 now, value..hmmmm 350 maybe? So we can only claim 290/390 as our tax relief when we do our returns.
Ages of children: 1 under 1 year
Life insurance: yes.
What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
1. My job isn't v secure and I could get made redundant any day, altho probably not til September. I'm on a 3 day week due to downturn. How much emergency fund do we need to keep? Should we pay down the car loan so we have less liabilities if I do lose my job?
2. The "investment property" mortgage- I know the usual advice is to keep interest only and never pay lumps off it but does this still apply where we can only claim relief on 290/390? The negative equity scares me.
3. Should we use savings to clear some of house mortgage.
4. We have over 35 yrs still to run on mortgage- should we increase the payments while we can afford it at the moment to reduce the term, or is it worth our while?
5. Anything else we are glaringly doing wrong
Annual gross income from employment or profession: 39K
Annual gross income of spouse:65K
Type of employment: e.g. Civil Servant, self-employed
Private sector both.
In general are you:
(a) spending more than you earn, or
(b) saving?
saving c 1500 pm
Rough estimate of value of home bought 300K
Amount outstanding on your mortgage: hmm around 300K
What interest rate are you paying? ECB plus .95%, tracker
Other borrowings – car loans/personal loans etc
car loan, 8K
Do you pay off your full credit card balance each month? Yes
Savings and investments:
10K in rabo
Do you have a pension scheme? spouse has
Do you own any investment or other property? yes, house Dublin 8. Lived there 3 yrs then moved from Dublin and kept it, rent more than covers mortgage now thanks to interest only tracker mortgage again at ECB plus .95 BUT released equity to fund current house so bought for 290 originally, mortgaged for 390 now, value..hmmmm 350 maybe? So we can only claim 290/390 as our tax relief when we do our returns.
Ages of children: 1 under 1 year
Life insurance: yes.
What specific question do you have or what issues are of concern to you?
1. My job isn't v secure and I could get made redundant any day, altho probably not til September. I'm on a 3 day week due to downturn. How much emergency fund do we need to keep? Should we pay down the car loan so we have less liabilities if I do lose my job?
2. The "investment property" mortgage- I know the usual advice is to keep interest only and never pay lumps off it but does this still apply where we can only claim relief on 290/390? The negative equity scares me.
3. Should we use savings to clear some of house mortgage.
4. We have over 35 yrs still to run on mortgage- should we increase the payments while we can afford it at the moment to reduce the term, or is it worth our while?
5. Anything else we are glaringly doing wrong