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The Property Podcast

ASK290: Who's right about how to spend our £50k – me or my wife? PLUS: What can I do about my lack of mortgage options?

The Property Podcast

Rob Bence & Rob Dix

News, Education, Business, Investing, Business News

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

This week on Ask Rob & Rob, the guys are settling a debate between a husband and wife on the best property strategy and help another caller with a mortgage conundrum.   Our first caller is Colin.  Colin and his wife have managed to save £50k but both have different views on how they’d invest it. They also need to move into a new home themselves over the next two years.  Colin wants to use the funds to invest in a flip property and then split the profit in half to invest into more properties and into their own residential home.   However, Colin’s wife would like to use the £50k to buy a bigger, more expensive family home and then further down the line re-mortgage and release equity for Colin to then invest in property how he’d like.  Can Rob & Rob make this husband and wife see eye-to-eye?  The second caller this week is Toby who’s 26 and a first-time buyer.   He was wanting to invest in a buy-to-let property before purchasing his own residential property but has reached a stumbling block after speaking to mortgage brokers.   They’ve told Toby that because he has no mortgage history, the interest rates available are very poor as the banks don’t want to lend to him.  So naturally, Toby wants to know if Rob & Rob have ever heard of this situation before where you can’t get a mortgage offer due to having no mortgage history.   Tune in to find out.    Do you have a buy to let or property investment related question for Rob & Rob? You could feature on the next episode by giving us a call on 013 808 00035 and leaving a message with your name and question (normal UK call rates apply).   Or if you prefer, click here to leave a recording via your computer instead.  The next question on Ask Rob & Rob could be yours.   Have you joined us over on the Property Hub Forum yet? Our online community is friendly, informative, and the members are waiting to welcome you with open arms. So get yourself over and introduce yourself. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Ask Rob and Rob, the show where you get your property

0:12.5

questions in, mostly property, and each week we answer them.

0:16.9

And don't worry, we're not going to stray from that solid form at this week, we've got

0:19.9

two great questions coming up.

0:22.0

But before we do, let's give you a quick reminder of how you can get your question on

0:26.1

the show.

0:27.1

All you've got to do is call our recently renamed our hotline, which does sound so much

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better.

0:32.8

013 808 triple 035 013 808 triple 035, give us a call and leave us a voicemail, or you

0:40.2

can go and do exactly the same thing over at propertyhub.net slash ask.

0:45.2

Either method equally reliable for getting your question in, so make sure you do it and

0:49.2

so you can follow in the fine footsteps of Colin.

0:52.2

Hi Rob and Rob, my name is Colin, love the podcast, thank you very much for providing

0:56.8

it, I've been listening avidly for about the last year and I'm really keen to get started

1:01.5

on my first investment property.

1:04.1

We have a bit of a dilemma on myself and my wife have saved up around 50,000 pounds, which

1:09.8

I'd like to use to invest in property.

1:13.0

We also need to move home in the next couple of years we reckon.

1:18.6

So my plan would be to take that 50,000 over the next two years, invest it in flipping

1:26.6

property to increase the part of money so that we can then use half of it for a new home

1:32.4

and then I can go on and use half of it for further investments.

1:36.8

My wife's suggestion is that we increase our mortgage and buy a bigger, more expensive

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