I've read through here regarding the issues with St George and offsetting interests, is any able to elaborate the issue to a simpleton like myself? Are there still IO issues with St George/Bank Of Melbourne's?
Personal borrowings for unit holder with Corporate Trustee of the Unit Trust providing Security Guarantee - ie the usual Unit trust for neg gearing structure.
I've read through here regarding the issues with St George and offsetting interests, is any able to elaborate the issue to a simpleton like myself? Are there still IO issues with St George/Bank Of Melbourne's?
there should not be any issues with the offset account as they changed it to true offset a while ago. Before the balance of the offset account saved interest but it did not adjust the payments. For example if you owed 100K and had 10K in the offset and your loan was interest only you used to still make the payment on the interest based on 100K. They have now changed it to the correct way so you only pay the interest on the 90K. As others have mentioned there still seems to be some isolated issues. One of the important things to remember with st george is to check after settlement that the transaction account is ticked as an offset account as this is still a manual process.