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IrishmanAbro
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Myself and the wife are in early thirties, live abroad but moving home to ireland in the next few months. We bought our house in Ireland just over 3 years ago for 275k euro. We put the house up for sale a year and half ago as we thought that we would be spending the net few years living abroad. It all changed as we had a baby late last year. Due to lack of family support and a better standard of living we have decided to move home. To help with covering the mortgage we got an interest only mortgage that expires in October. Is there any way we can negiotate with the BOI to do the interest only mortgage for another year or at least 6 months. The only other debt we have in ireland is a loan with aib for 5000 and BOI for 10,000. Both have 2 years left. The reason been is we stupidly bought a condo here in the states. With the way house prices have gone the condo is worth 25k less than what we bought it for. We have had it for sale for the last 4 months , no offers. In order to reduce the price we have to go through our lendor and hope for a short sale.
The reason why i started this thread is a) if we stay in the states we will loose our house in Ireland as we cannot make the payments anymore. ATM the conversion between dollar and the euro is killing us.
b) We move back to Ireland, move into the house, pay the mortgage comfortably. But have the problem of the condo in the states. I wish we could just give it away but its not as easy as that.
The reason for our slump in finances is My wife nearly died after the birth of our child due to complications. As a result we survived on one income for 6 months. I used what was left of my SSIA for the rest. It is only in the last few months that my wife has started to work , beit part time. All of our savings have been wiped since we moved over( paying the difference of the mortgage for the house in Ireland) and the price of the euro. We have our house rented in Ireland but the rent only covers 60% of the mortgage.
Myself and the wife are both depressed over this situation and don't know what to do.
The reason why i started this thread is a) if we stay in the states we will loose our house in Ireland as we cannot make the payments anymore. ATM the conversion between dollar and the euro is killing us.
b) We move back to Ireland, move into the house, pay the mortgage comfortably. But have the problem of the condo in the states. I wish we could just give it away but its not as easy as that.
The reason for our slump in finances is My wife nearly died after the birth of our child due to complications. As a result we survived on one income for 6 months. I used what was left of my SSIA for the rest. It is only in the last few months that my wife has started to work , beit part time. All of our savings have been wiped since we moved over( paying the difference of the mortgage for the house in Ireland) and the price of the euro. We have our house rented in Ireland but the rent only covers 60% of the mortgage.
Myself and the wife are both depressed over this situation and don't know what to do.