Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz Posted November 22, 2005 Share Posted November 22, 2005 (edited) Went on to BT Yahoo this evening to look at the new headlines. One of the news headlines wasn't a new headline, it just read 'first time buyers guide' DESPARATION OR WHAT! So you've finally decided to buy a house of your own. Congratulations! Although this site is designed with first time home buyers in mind, those who want to review the steps involved in the house buying process may also find it helpful. First, you must understand your credit, where you stand and what you can do to improve your credit scores. Secondly you need to work out how much you can afford, how long it will take to find a deposit and how much you can borrow. Most buyers will have to go through the complex world of mortgages, which includes a variety of lending offers. Edited November 22, 2005 by gruffydd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 What a waste of time. Everybody knows that a 100% self-cert IO mortgage is the way to go. How much you can borrow depends very much on how many 0s you can write down on the application form before your arm grows tired or the ink runs out from your pen... How many zeroes? Or how about 1s? You can fit more in the space... http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 23, 2005 Share Posted November 23, 2005 That's way too complicated for someone who's stupid enough to take out a mortgage now, surely? LOL The contest’s results are never quite what I’d hope. Once, a seventh-grade boy filled his card with a string of successive 9’s. Like many other big-number tyros, he sought to maximize his number by stuffing a 9 into every place value. Had he chosen easy-to-write 1’s rather than curvaceous 9’s, his number could have been millions of times bigger. He still would been decimated, though, by the girl he was up against, who wrote a string of 9’s followed by the superscript 999. Aha! An exponential: a number multiplied by itself 999 times. Noticing this innovation, I declared the girl’s victory without bothering to count the 9’s on the cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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