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BTL Application assessed on Financial Association

Why is a Financial Association taken into account when applying for a BTL mortgage in a single name?

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  • silvercar
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    Why is a Financial Association taken into account when applying for a BTL mortgage in a single name?
    If the rental yield isn't sufficient to justify the size of borrowing a lender will look at the commitments of the borrower. If the borrower has financial associations which would mean they don't have spare cash to effectively subsidise the profitability of the BTL then the lender is going to be concerned.
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  • ACG
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    It is one of the things lenders take into account, not every lender does. 
    But some lenders think it is relevant, presumably something somewhere says you are a higher risk if you are financially associated with someone who is bad with their money.

    My experience when working with people who have bad credit is that there is usually a single person who is bad with money or something bad happened which affected both (illness, redundancy etc). 

    But my experience is a lot more limited than a banks.  
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