Are those standard resi units or are they serviced apartments, student accommodation or something else outside the norm? I haven’t looked into the Melb market so don’t know what’s on offer – but I’d assume that sourcing CF+ IP’s in the CBD (particularly post boom) would be difficult.
There is a lot of hard work in either renovating or developing, good luck on your journey
Tell me about it – going through it right now. I actually enjoy doing the work (so don’t mind doing some of it myself as opposed to outsourcing) but it is hard work – particularly trying to find the time to get things done.
You’ll need to have your borrowing capacity looked at by a broker/bank.
From there, you could look at tapping into some of the equity in your current IP. This equity could be used towards the deposit and purchasing csots towards the next.
What type of property is the one in the ACT? I’d assume it’s worth a fair bit more than you think. You might be able to increase that rent too – which will improve your borrowing capacity.
Personally, I’d be reluctant to go down this path in order to save some dollars on property management fees. I’d prefer to pay a local property manager who has their reputation on the line rather than hand it over to a large bureaucracy that probably doesn’t give two hoots about your property.
There’s no explicit rules when it comes to negotiating. The only tip I can offer is to work out exactly how much you’re willing to pay for the property based on your own research and use that figure as the basis for your negotiations.
I have this morning received an interesting email from a forum member (whose name i will withhold for obvious reasons) who was looking for us to assist them with finance.
Whilst the number details were a little short on the member asked whether we would be prepared to ignore the number of dependant they had and pretend he was totally single.
Of course our swift response was NO and hence the member decided not to proceed further with an application thru us.
It is for these very reasons that the finance markets are in the current state they are in.
No Doc and Lodoc Loans were aptly named Liar Loans in the US with borrowers / some mortgage brokers alike thinking it was appropriate to deliberately lie or mislead lenders on an application for finance. Falsely declaring income is certainly fraud however also failing to disclose other liabilities such as personal loans, credit cards or dependants is an offence in it's own right.
Thankfully much of the old Nodoc / Lodoc lending has disappeared with the introduction of the new Credit Laws but it is still interesting that a potential client feels that a Broker would falsely submit an application on his behalf merely for a commission.
Part of the new legislation requires a Broker to make prudent enquiries to ensure that the information they are submitting is true and accurate whether this be in relation to income, expenditure or lifestyle.
To all potential borrowers you are better off telling your Mortgage Broker the whole story from the start as often there is a lending solution or niche product that will suit your circumstances where the application can be submitted truthfully and without the need for non disclosure.
In fact in this case i am sure that had the borrower disclosed 3 dependants this would have not excluded the deal from being done.