3+ months processing time
We got in touch with switcheroo on 5th of May 2022 to get our first mortgage after 6 months of continuous employment. Our initial conversation with Graham was promising. He described they are in contact with many mortgage providers, avant money seemed to be the best at the moment, with ~ 6 weeks processing time, but best rates, so we agreed to apply by them. We uploaded the required documents in a week, then some were missing, added those. After three weeks Graham told us, to apply at PTSB, I asked why, the reason I was given is that avant raised rates, now PTSB is the best, processing time around three weeks. In the meanwhile I realised, that Graham actually doesn't have our file. He was just managing other employees to do so, and those employees started asking the same questions about missing documents, and of course bank accounts have to be updated, because it took the switcheroo employees a few days the read our emails, and it took a few days to get updated documents. Eventually an other person from switcheroo told me they actually submitted the application to PTSB. Then we got some of the old questions and a new one (mother's maiden name) and answered these again. The weird thing is that any question they ask can be answered by lokking at our uploaded documents. So I don't know what they do with the documents, because obviously they are not reading them. Today is 17th of August we still don't know if we will get a mortgage or not, or if somebody is just making us wait, because interest rates were increased and will be increased more if we wait.
August 17, 2022
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