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Advice Needed Urgently on Mortgage due to Mum passing

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Hi,

Just after a bit of advice where possible. Unfortunately, our mum passed away just before Christmas after a very short struggle with Cancer at the age of 49. She was an amazing woman and I’m extremely proud to have been able to call her my mum.



We haven’t really had time to grieve (denial probably), if we’re not organizing the funeral, then it’s bills and trying to organize her home.
I’m hoping that someone may be able to help in regards to organizing my mum’s debts and mortgage, as I keep getting conflicting information so hopefully someone out there may be able to help, given that I’ve never been in this position before.


Luckily, we managed to sort out a will (exactly a week before her passing), in which she signed all that she had over to myself and my little sister. This included my mum’s mortgage in which she still owes on. The problem is my mum had remortgaged and was the sole mortgagee and given that my mum didn’t have any life insurance (cancelled exactly a year ago) or pension to clear the debt, we would like to take on the mortgage. It’s with the Bank of Scotland.


The mortgage had accrued quite a bit of arrears (£11k – £14k) over the years and prior to Nov ’12 they’d allowed my mum a mortgage holiday under the circumstances. However, as I’ve been caring for my mum for the last few months I’m not in work but now looking, but I do have some savings that I could use to make the payments. The mortgage repayments are £900 approx a month so I’m thinking of asking if we could pay an interest only rate for a period of time until I’m back in employment.



Approximately, the house is worth about £130k and my mum owed £110k but it’s a good investment and me and my sister are looking to rent it out to students as it’s in a perfect area and we’ve had people enquire about it already.


Also, my mum had several debts which she owed on outside of the mortgage, would I be able to enquire about PPI on her behalf and if so, how would I go about this? Mum did start making enquiries but unfortunately time wasn’t on her side.


Thanks for taking the time to read my post.


In love and light
:A Me x

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