Yeah it's possible but pointless. You'd be better off making that lump sum repayment into the offset instead – it will have the same effect but a better outcome if you decide to turn this property into an IP in the future.

Here's an article I wrote for API magazine on the interest only with an offset structure and here's another article I wrote on interest only structures in general. Hopefully they help a little.

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Jamie

No.

I'm saying that if your new job is in the same industry as your old job than its still possible to get a loan – even after only being in the new job for a very short period.

It all depends on the loan to value ration as well – if there's no mortgage insurance involved, than it will make things a little easier. If there is mortgage insurance involved, it's still doable.

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Jamie

Generally speaking, if you're next job is in a similar role and the LVR isn't ridiculously high than all should be fine on that front. As I mentioned though, there's so many other variables at play when applying for a home loan – employment history is just one so it's hard to give a definitive answer.

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Jamie

Good old bank logic

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If cashflow is an issue you could look into the ATO PAYG variation form which will allow you to pay less tax each pay rather than make a large claim at EOFY.

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Jamie

Richard's your man – he'll sort it out for you.

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Jamie

Hi Tesst

Welcome aboard.

Your current lender will probably try and use your entire owner occupied property as collateral for your investment property. This is what we call cross collaterisation.

To avoid this, you should be able to set-up a second loan against your owner ocuppied property which will act as the 20% deposit and costs on your investment property, you would then arrange for a separate 80% loan to be set-up to cover the remaining portion. In this scenario, you have three loans set-up but the properties remain uncross collaterised.

Since you've got an owner occupied debt, it would be ideal to set up your investment loans (the equity release and subsequent 80% loan) as interest only.

James from House of Wealth is a good accountant in Melbourne.

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Jamie

Hi Jenny

There’s a tonne of info on studio apartments on this forum – do a quick search and you’ll be able to read up about the pros and cons (there’s much more of the latter).

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Jamie

Hi Max

Welcome to the forum.

You can access equity in your IP which will be used as the deposit/costs on your next owner occupied purchase.

The only issue is that these funds won't be deductible. You'll still retain the deductibility on the current $280k loan but won't be able to deduct any of the equity release because it's being used for an owner occupied purchase.

In hindsight, you should have placed the money into an offset account instead. That would have achieved the same result but would have been much more beneficial from a tax perspective. Here's a blog entry that explains the concept.

If you do decide to keep your current IP – you'd be best of converting the loan to interest only now and stop paying off any more fo the principle.

Hope that helps.

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Jamie

I'm biased – I do a fair bit of writing for API so they get my vote.

I also think there's more content rather than advertising in comparison to some of the others – particuarly YIP. I could be wrong but that's my general perception.

I like the API databank as well – very handy.

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Jamie