Our experience
Hi All FTB,
I'd like to share my experience from our first application for a mortgage.
I have permanent job in a financial institution (been there 5+ years) and my husband is self employed. We have 2 children.
My earnings are a little more than these of cirbir. At the time of the application (early this year) we had about 130k savings + 2 properties abroad. We save 1000 each month + 332 child benefit (rates from 2-3 years ago). When you add the rent our outgoings are over 2k a month.
The problem was my husband's accounts from previous years. Only last year's earnings were ok, previous years weren't so good.
BoI didn't like his accounts, said his earnings were inconsistent and because he's self employed there is no stability in his income and even if he's done ok the previous year he could go down the next (something in those lines).
I asked the mortgage adviser if we can put the application on hold for 3 months and prove that his earnings are the same as these from the previous months and also provide them with some additional papers form his accountant - managed accounts, etc and details of what work he has lined up for the next couple of months. She agreed.
3 months latter it turns out our application was cancelled (3 months ago) because of my husband's situation with paid tax/income , not put on hold as we agreed before. She said we didn't have enough disposable income to afford the mortgage we were applying for – 120k and they could only give us 60k.
I was so disappointed, we were so looking forward to moving in a nice house, making it our permanent home.
At the time I was furious and thought this was pure discrimination ( we are eastern europeans) – she says ones our application is cancelled then says they can offer us 60 based on my salary only. You can't offer anything on cancelled application, right? I was thinking of writing an official compliant of unfair treatment, misleading information but decided it was probably for the best with falling house prices and didn't do anything.
We will try again next year and this time we'll shop around.
Good luck to all
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