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Archive for April, 2009

House is retiring

House has decided to retire. The reason being that House will shortly have no need to work as House is about to come into great riches for all House needs to do is follow the instructions in these emails House received today.
NOTE: House would strongly recommend that people do not reply to these sorts of [...]

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A House pondering

House sees many clients who have an interest only mortgage who also don’t have any method by which they intend to pay off the outstanding amount at the end of their mortgage.
House realises this might not be an issue for those people who intend to downsize and whose property has shot up in value but [...]

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Two issues that have popped up recently and House would appreciate some obviously informal views on them.
1) If a Local Authority takes a ‘Homeless application’ from a person and places that person into accommodation under sec 188  is another LA obliged to take a ‘Homeless application’ from that person if approached or can they say [...]

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New homeowners mortgage support begins
 
New support to help homeowners remain in their homes if they fall on difficult times will be available from today, announced Housing Minister Margaret Beckett. 
 
Homeowners Mortgage Support (HMS) will enable eligible borrowers who suffer a temporary loss of income to cut their mortgage interest payments for up to two [...]

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Grr, Clients

House has a client who decided to swan in 5 hours late for an appointment having already missed one appointment. House couldn’t see said client but client is begging for another appointment. House is rather tempted to not make room for this client, at the cost of other clients.
House thinks he’s being a bit mean [...]

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202 review time claiming

House is suffering from over time claiming worries and thinks he is rather - when it comes to section 202 reviews. By the time House has got the file, perused it and done (on average) a 4 page letter (including refreshing himself on relevant caselaw with a view to putting in some funky quotes) he has often taken about 4 or 5 hours but [...]

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The CLP in Birmingham are fab.
Enough said
House was going to give a link to their website but House doesn’t think they have one!

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FOS

Just a quicky, have added a link for the Financial Ombudsman Service under ‘other places’. Some interesting, although not overly new, stuff on the mis-selling of PPI something that House is sure many of us folks have come across.

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New LSC eligibility rates

Thanks to Ilegal and the team. New LSC eligibility rates as from 6th April.
A handy KEYCARD can be found here. Again thanks to Ilegal.

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