http://www.daveso.com Passive Income via Property Investment, the Internet and other means - daveso.com Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:06:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Is this another sign of the credit crunch? During May Birmingham Midshires added a note to their mortgage book with the CML (Council of Mortgage Lenders) 5.1.1- Contact point if the seller has owned the property for less than 6 months. Completions Team at office issuing mortgage instructions. See Offer for contact details. NB ... http://www.daveso.com/property-investment/birmingham-midshires-declines-assignable-contracts/ Whilst I was away I was informed that Mortgage Express, one of my favourite mortgage lenders had overnight pulled the plug on their instant remortgage product. Mortgage Express were the only major mortgage company to allow an investor to remortgage their property before owning it for 6 months. An instant ... http://www.daveso.com/property-investment/mortgage-express-instant-remortgage-the-end/ I've been absent for a few weeks as I've just been really busy preparing for the wedding. Now that its over and me and Sally are back from honeymoon we are still so busy and life has not yet returned to normality for us. Here is a picture at our wedding ... http://www.daveso.com/holidays/my-wedding-mr-and-mrs-so/ In the last 2 weeks or so ALL UK banks and lending institutions that I and my fellow investors use seem to have tightened their belts and repriced their mortgage products. Fixed rates have gone up as well as variable tracker rates. Arrangement fees are also still stupidly high. Even ... http://www.daveso.com/property-investment/uk-lenders-tighten-lending/ I'm sorry I've not had the chance to post for ages. I'm currently up to my neck in wedding planning for my upcoming wedding on the 8th April. A few weeks ago I was treated by my mates to a stag do in the Latvian city of Riga. Riga is supposed to ... http://www.daveso.com/holidays/riga-stag-do/ Whilst there is another PR update happening at the moment, most of my sites have not been affected. One site has reached PR4 which is very good considering I have not even promoted it much. One of my best website marketing achievements at the moment is for the Soda Estates site. ... http://www.daveso.com/search-engines/soda-estates-gets-authority-from-google/ This is an update of the eviction of my non paying tenants, the process has well and truly dragged out for ages and ages. About 5 months in total. In court the judge had ordered that the tenants leave on Jan 23rd and give up possession of the property. The tenants ... http://www.daveso.com/property-investment/my-first-eviction-update3/ We recieved some very good news last week. The planning permission that we submitted on our new property has been granted! In October of 2007 me and The Sally bought a small bungalow in need of some work, but with a view to die for. It will be our new home ... http://www.daveso.com/property-investment/planning-permission-on-our-house/ My ISP Freedom 2 Surf had a major outage last week and I was without internet access for almost 3 days. Their sales guys confirmed that over 3000 users had been affected and had no internet. I only found this out after calling the sales department as I had been ... http://www.daveso.com/internet/freedom-2-surf-suck/ The UK Bank of England has cut interest rates to 5.25% from 5.5% following signs that the UK economy is slowing down. The Bank needs to ensure that growth and inflation are balanced but the move today was widely anticipated by analysts after cuts in the US, where the Federal ... http://www.daveso.com/other-investments/bank-rate-cut-to-525/