{"id":4953,"date":"2012-06-06T09:36:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=4953"},"modified":"2012-06-06T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:36:02","slug":"why-is-it-so-bloody-hard-to-get-a-mortgage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/why-is-it-so-bloody-hard-to-get-a-mortgage\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is it so bloody hard to get a mortgage???"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first contacted ING a couple of months ago, I made it very clear that I was paid by an international organization and did not pay UK income tax. I was assured that, based on income figures alone, it shouldn&#8217;t be a problem to get a mortgage. Cut forward to today, when a different person tells me, &#8220;oh, there are some notes on your income documents. They&#8217;ve been sent for review&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After saying that I&#8217;m not overly surprised, seeing as I have unusual fiscal arrangements (yet all perfectly legal and above board!!), I&#8217;m now told that &#8220;oh, I&#8217;ll have to make a note of that, not paying UK income tax is generally a reason for non-approval&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>DAMNIT!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not like I was being deceptive, I told them all of this shit months ago. And now, after weeks of faffing and being jerked around, now they drop this shit on me.<\/p>\n<p>I can pay the fucking mortgage.<\/p>\n<p>Please let me give you my money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first contacted ING a couple of months ago, I made it very clear that I was paid by an international organization and did not pay UK income tax. I was assured that, based on income figures alone, it shouldn&#8217;t be a problem to get a mortgage. Cut forward to today, when a different&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/06\/why-is-it-so-bloody-hard-to-get-a-mortgage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Why is it so bloody hard to get a mortgage???&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[298,109,26],"class_list":["post-4953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-banks-are-evil","tag-dealing-with-idiots","tag-shrill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-1hT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4954,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4953\/revisions\/4954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}