Informed comment about a wheelchair users experiences and those irritating things in life that bloody annoy all of us!

Thursday, April 27, 2006

Car Contract Hire, Car Leasing

I was told by a mate to not buy a new car but to lease a new car instead. Being honest I had no idea about Car Contract Hire and Car Leasing, they were alien concepts to me.

I thought that if you were after a new vehicle, you visited the local dealership and signed the papers! What little did I know!

Again, after using my good friend Google, I came across loads of different companies, who were essentially selling the same thing - Contract Hire Cars - Surely there cannot be that much of a demand for the amount of businesses that seemed to be dealing with this kind of vehicle purchase.

I was told of all of the benefits of leasing a car by the kind people at Nationwide Vehicle Contracts, who incidentally I found via MSN and not Google.

That was it, I was converted, I was going to going to lease my new car, all I had to do was decide which model I should go for - Well for those that have being reading my blog, of course it had to big and flashy. Personally I have always been a fan of BMW cars. Nationwide Vehicle Contracts proved to have a great selection of BMW Contract Hire and BMW Car Lease deals.

Enough said, it was time to get me something with some balls. For literally only £339.95 a month I was able to get a BMW 5 Series and boy does it rock. This is without doubt the finest car I have ever driven.

So if you are buying a car,don'tt bother - There are two options available to you

Car Leasing
Can Contract Hire


I found the following two sites really good

www.nationwidevehiclecontracts.co.uk
www.vehicleoptions.biz

New House

I thought it was time to move on up in the world, and create even more debt for myself. Hey I'm covered by the life insurance, so what the heck.

I fancied upgrading from my modest little bungalow to something more grand, a house that stated to everybody who saw it and visited that, yes I had gone up in the world and yes I was bolloxed financially!

Mortgage companies don't care, as long as they flimsy evidence that you can make a repayment they'll say yes. That is unless you have no evidence of debt, then you are more than likely going to get turned down.

Having chosen to get myself in deft even further I then had the painstaking process of looking for property. Firstly, I hate shopping, secondly unless it can be delivered I don't buy it, so you can image how tiresome it is going and looking at property. Then I have the added complication of the wheelchair bolted to my arse. Lets face facts the majority of property in the UK seems to be against having access for people in wheelchair's. Oh Joy!!

I looked on Google for Estate Agents, all the usual suspects came to the fore, but in all honesty, I was after a local estate agent so I keyed in 'West Sussex Estate Agent'.

After trawling through the top 10 results (I never go past the first page, so if your website is not on the first page, you definitely require some search engine optimisation) I came across a site I liked, Hunters Estate Agents based in Burgess Hill.

I liked the Hunters site, it had some upper class properties that struck a cord, this was it I could find my property in west sussex with Hunters.

And to cut a long story short, I did find a property. I am more laden with debt then ever, everyone now thinks that I am minted.

On the plus point, the ladies love the new abode, so it is proving in some quarters to be a wise investment!