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Disappointing experience
My fiance and I sought pre-approval through Reduce Home Loans which seemed relatively easy (although we did have to chase for a couple weeks...) then once our offer had been accepted on our first home it went down hill from there. We had a 30 day settlement timeline and notified RHL the same day with no indication of any issues. Two weeks in, we followed up (and this took three calls and two emails) to find out where we were at in the process and how much longer approval would take to be told we should consider looking for a different provider....Read more
Two weeks before our settlement date! They had also miscalculated our funds and forgot to factor in our deposit which would have set us back a couple days. Needless to say, we dropped RHL quicksmart and went with another provider who were absolute godsends and had us further along in the approval process within 5 hours - we were laughing at the difference in service, it was unbelievable. I wouldn't recommend RHL if you're a first-home buyer!Similar opinion? Write a review on ProductReview.com.au!
Questions & Answers
Aussiebloke34asked
Why are the fees so huge and why are so many members accusing you of bait and switch, where months after they have their loans established they get a letter advising their interest rates are going up?
No answers
Alex Dasked
Some of the comments are quite serious and places doubts on whether Reduce can then be trusted or not if they sign you up on one rate, only to increase it in a few months. Has many people experienced it?
Also people are saying their exit fees are very high. How high are they compared to others?
Thanks.
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Hi Alex, I’m on 3 years fixed rate. I’m not sure how much are the exit fees but I don’t think it’s higher than my precious bank.
I was told exit fees were made illegal from 2011?
Simmoasked
I am considering refinancing soon with reduce and I was wondering if there rates go up soon after changing over. I was convinced a few years ago by a broker to refinance with AFG and 2 days after my loan changed over the rate went up quite a bit and I would have been better off staying with Peoples choice. I don't want to waste my time changing if this will happen again.
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I am an existing customer my rate was 2.42% it will soon reduce to 2.27%. I have not experienced any issues with rates, although I have noticed they are now advertising at 1.77% so do not reward loyalty. The process to refinance is beyond slow, frustrating and you need to jump through hoops expect it to be even months before it is finalised. So you need to weight that up.
I am also an existing customer at current rate of 3.94% IO Investor loan when current advertised is 3.19% for the same product. Contacted my manager who said that no improvements to rate are possible. I'm now looking at refinance for 2 loan products elsewhere closer to the advertised Reduce interest rate. No reward once you are signed up.
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