I got £12,000 free cash using little-known trick to buy £228k first-home at 26

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PERSONAL assistant Aimee Shipp always wanted to own a home – and skipped University and getting a degree so she could start saving aged 18.

At just 26, the savvy saver bought a £228,000 flat in Harlow, Essex as she worked as a personal assistant.

In her first job, aged 18, she started saving for a house deposit.

She was being paid £32,000 a year, despite having no higher education qualifications.

By 20, this had risen to £35,000 and by 22 she was earning £38,000 a year as a PA.

Aimee said: “I didn’t want to go to university and get saddled with debt, I wanted to get a job and save to buy a home of my own, so that is exactly what I did.”

Last year, she finally decided she had saved enough money to put down a deposit on a home of her own, so started to search for apartments she could afford.

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