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Historical default, broker wants to place me with same lender?

student87 · 2017-03-30 17:59:46

Hi All, Broker wants to place me with Barclays. He is aware I had defaulted on a student account / overdraft with them many years ago. The default does not show on my credit file. He believes the adverse history should not be an issue? surely he is wrong? I am looking to obtain a 40% Help to Buy loan now and with my…

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David_White Posts: 892 Forumite

1 April 2017 at 10:22AM edited 2 April 2017 at 8:32AM

Yeah that's it, training on the system is more word of mouth than anything else!

To be fair it's extremely robust and does the job it needs to, it's just antiquated.

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