I'm really enjoying this 'peak career' season.
"I've made the MOST money being a content creator. This is my BEST year."
5 minutes later...
"I told you before... my account gets OVERDRAWN on a daily basis so I can't stream less, I need to stream more!"
"...get a real job? This is a REAL job! I have so much micro management and STRESS to deal with"
Phil is a living oxymoron, emphasis on the moron
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Let's assume Philix Burnellix, who fell into a
pot of greed in his youth, gets his refinance of the house. I'm no business person nor do I even know what this means, so just asking: Would he have to show every year he gains at least this amount of money?
At the very least, they would probably want to see his income over the last 2 years while also running a credit check on him. This would give the bank / loan officer an idea of how things would continue assuming everything remained the same moving forward.
So, if he's making more money as he claims, it's to his advantage then in the bank's eyes, but if his debt ratios keep increasing then he's basically neutral at this point. If he's been getting his debt utilization down (the % of your credit line available that you use), while his income is going up or remaining the same, then that would look good in his favor too.
But the loan officer / credit analyst / whoever will want to get the bigger picture to see what they're working with. I can't imagine having the CT condo under his name helps. His income is technically inconsistent, but if it follows a trend over the years then they'll have an idea of how consistent his 'business' really is.
I don't work in this stuff at all, and this is just arm chair knowledge talking, but I imagine the bank would be happy with a HELOC (home equity line of credit) which would basically put his WA house up as collateral and allow him to tap into his equity as credit line. The problem with that is that most of his payments have been towards the interest. Mortgages and such are set up so that like 90% of your first monthly payment is actually paying interest with very little going to the principal balance. He probably has very little equity to tap into, so this option may be useless, unless it's just enough money for him to knock down his credit card bills, so that he'd pay ~5% interest instead of +20% on a credit card.