(rant)
So let me be fairly vague about this... The credit union I belong to has a mortgage department that must be staffed by idiots...
I was told today that I would need to find someone with an equal income to my own in order to purchase the house I was looking at... Right... Let me go out, get married, and still manage to catch this house before it goes off the market here where houses sell faster than plywood before a south Florida hurricane... A simple no would have been just fine with me since I've already got offers from banks I have never dealt with before in my life... I really am glad that my credit union is really looking out for me... Awfully glad I've put up with the headache of a bank with 2 branches in the country (minimum 70 miles from where I am now) for all the years I've had that account, just so they can screw around with me when I need them to step up to the plate and do what they're supposed to do...
(/rant)
Addendum: I do love you L, forgive me for for my careless post.