'We sold our car to help save up £20,000 deposit to buy our first home'
We use the third bedroom as an office, and the other as a spare room for friends and family.The lounge and kitchen are separate - it’s not open plan.
All in all, we made around £400 from this and we put the money towards buying new furniture for the house.The house was £400,000. We used the government's Help to Buy scheme so only had to put down a 5% deposit, which was £20,000.The loan is interest-free for the first five years. Our monthly repayments are £800, which is considerably less than the £1,050 we were previously paying in rent.We put aside £300 for food, £500 for bills and £1,050 for rent each month, and then saved £1,000.We had been going out for meals and drinks in London most weekends, costing around £600 a month - and we cut this down to around £100 a month instead.
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