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Hi,

Can anyone help? I'm looking at buying a house which is great but its currently split into bedsits and has 3 kitchens.

The 3 kitchens is making it impossible for me to find a mortgage lender. 3 kitchens= not interested. It would be easier to get a buy to let mortgage but then I can't live there myself.

I've tried a couple of Mortgage brokers, they cant help, I'm trying the internet. The next and final step is to start ringing banks, but there are loads and the answer is largely going to be no.

Any suggestions?


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:15 am
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Unplug/unwire the cookers, then they're simply store rooms.


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:16 am
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I have never had to tell any of my mortgage companies how many kitchens I have!


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:18 am
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Ask the vendor to remove the equipment?


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:20 am
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I asked the mortgage broker about the whole unwiring the cookers and sinks or removing them for the survey. He thought that this was an excelent way to lose the cost of a survey.

Surveyor walks into room with no cooker thats obviously a kitchen, ticks box marked kitchen.

I have had a survey done on another place, and it has a box marked evidence of more than one kitchen...


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:22 am
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I did ask the vendor about moving the kit and was told no. Perhaps being on the market for another 2 months might have changed their mind.


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:23 am
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Surveyor walks into room with no cooker thats obviously a kitchen, ticks box marked kitchen.

Put a bed in it?


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:27 am
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Good suggestion, one of the kitchens is a kitchen living room diner, so that only leaves me one bed to find.

Best suggestion so far ๐Ÿ™‚

[url= http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-24169525.html?premiumA=true ]The house[/url]


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:32 am
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Blimey! that's cheap!!


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:36 am
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We had a mortgage once in installments - we had to do some work to release the second payment - any possibility?
Are you using a mortgage advisor/broker?


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:38 am
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Its cheap for a reason, actually lots of reasons

Iffy area
Broken heating
peeling paint
Rotten windows (lots)
Damp (lots)
Rubbish guttering
a garage that has a tree growing through the walls

For me it would/ will be a 2 year project


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:39 am
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Second Boxelders suggestion, have a look at [url= http://www.buildstore.co.uk/finance/acceleratorhome.html ]self build mortgages[/url] these release payments as you do the work, subject to meeting targets. My dad uses a rolling one to build houses.


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 11:45 am
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Can you not buy it on a buy to rent remove the Kitchens and then change the mortgage to a normal one. You might incur extra surveying costs and not be able to live in the house officially until the kitchens have been stripped out but that in itself shouldn't take more than a week or two. A little bit complicated however.


 
Posted : 23/08/2010 12:03 pm
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I won't be able to get a buy to let as my deposit's not big enough.

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Posted : 23/08/2010 12:07 pm
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hijack-still got paul smith suits?


 
Posted : 02/09/2010 11:41 pm
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Commercial Mortgage?


 
Posted : 02/09/2010 11:54 pm
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Even if it's a bit shagged out as you say, it still looks like a good house. Good luck with it.


 
Posted : 03/09/2010 12:13 am