Couple stunned as bank takes half of home sale profit without consultation
A bank used half the profit from the sale of a Dunedin rental to pay down a mortgage on a couple's home – without consulting them.
“We never planned to be landlords,” Mike Bennett said of the couple's decision to sell their Forbury property before Christmas.
Bennett and his wife, Claire, had planned to use some of the $300,000 profit, after the mortgage had been settled, to renovate the home they lived in.
But days after the sale was completed, the couple received news from the bank that would change their plans.
Because of their change in circumstances – Bennett had changed jobs while his partner was completing a master’s degree – the bank advised it was effectively taking “a chunk of the proceeds”, Bennett said. Continue reading here.
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