We’re looking at buying a house, and we’ve so far started talking with pretty much the first mortgage advisor that got back to us, from a recommendation of an estate agent.
He’s part of Countrywide Mortgage Services which in itself is completely fine, and I don’t think there’s anything shady going on, but I feel like we’re being rushed and heavily pressed into moving as quickly as possible into booking viewings, buying into “mortgage protection” (basically life insurance packages with loads of bollocks on top) and it’s giving us a bad taste after our last two meetings with him.
At the same time, he’s shown us the portal he uses for finding mortgage rates and its clear we’d save more than the £700 price for his services, and we definitely do want someone to help handle the process for us, but are they meant to feel as pushy as car salesmen?
Lol, countrywide was the company that was fist DEEP into to the Great Recession and mortgage shenanigans in 2008…they can get fucked.
Source: We had a mortgage on a home that would never have been paid off since the property was not on the same plot as the house … Oh and they never paid state tax even though we paid then to do so, so that was another lawsuit…