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Yes I've applied. I bought a place last year so it's very fresh. Banks being math-based is exactly the point. They won't bend the rules for you. Plus the expense is mostly set in stone once you buy, whereas with renting you can rent an affordable place and have it increase year-on-year every year following, taking it from within that 35% to above it.
Isn't that all in favor of buying?
Yes, it's in favour of buying in the past. If you missed your window you're fucked though. That's why I bought, because I recognised the sliding window and knew if I didn't buy now I'd be locked out of buying forever and instead get stuck renting forever. I don't think anyone is against buying, just often unable to.
I don't see how those reasons (strict solvency checking, rules based decision making, etc) would lock anyone out.
Banks will not give you the loan if you do not make enough such that your repayments would be less than 35% of your income. But you could very well already be paying more than 35% of your income as rent. Trust me bro not everyone is renting because they feel like it. One of my friends saved a $100k deposit but didn't have the income to get a big enough loan for a house. These people aren't just stupid. Buying isn't an option for them.
The argument was that mortgage was half of rent. You won't be paying 70% rent...
You can be if you stay in the same place and the rent keeps increasing.
And my grandma had wheels she would be a bicycle
If the concept of someone staying in the same rental for a while and having their rent increase over time is that foreign to you then I don't think you should be commenting on this topic.
Yeah, rent doubling while income remains unchanged, not even inflation adjustment... is foreign to me.
Last year my job refused to give me an inflation adjustment, then they laid me off 6 months later because they didn't have as much growth as they projected.
Cool anecdote, bruh.
You said it was foreign to you... So I provided an example of it happening...
Yeah, for 6 months, for one person, without rent change, who might or might not be lying. So... cool anecdote, bruh.