'How I bought £150k house by getting a second job and selling drawings on Facebook'
I live in a three-bed semi-detached house in a village near Coalville in the Midlands.Credit: Paul Tonge - The SunCredit: Paul Tonge - The Sun
The previous owners were elderly but they’d had a new bathroom and kitchen fitted shortly before selling it. Robin spent two years longer at university than I did so had less time to save, which is why it worked out that way.Renting a similar size house in the area would easily cost us between £750 and £850 a month.
My starting salary was £15,000 a year and I was saving around £500 a month. The rest of my money went on board, paying for my car, covering my £20 phone bill and going out.The couple have since bought new sofas to replace the secondhand ones given to them when they first moved inI paid £750 to insure the car for the year and spent no more than £15 a week on fuel.I topped up my salary by taking on extra jobs and side hustles.
During my first year at the marketing agency, I freelanced at a theatre in Stoke in the evenings as well.GETTING on the property ladder can feel like a daunting task but there are schemes out there to help first-time buyers have their own home.- It's a tax-free savings account where for every £200 you save, the Government will add an extra £50. But there's a maximum limit of £3,000 which is paid to your solicitor when you move.
I still went on holiday while we were saving but they were cheap trips. For example, we went to Sweden for a few days but Robin’s uncle lives there so all we had to pay for was the flights really as we stayed with him. We also upcycled loads of secondhand bits. My aunty gave us a dining room table and chairs for free which we painted - it would have cost us around £300 brand new.
Robin, who’s a teacher, is great at making things too so he broke down a load of old pallets, sanded them down and made them into a coffee table and a TV unit. We also used all of the old bricks to rebuild it to avoid paying for new ones and knocked off the mortar ourselves to save the builders time.One thing we did do straight away was change the beige bathroom that we really didn’t like.
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