This Credit Guide gives you important information about the products we provide which are regulated by the National Credit Code (“consumer lending products”).
In this document, the words “we”, “us”, “our” and “Total Choice Home Loans” refer to Total Choice Home Loans.
Key information
Our Full Name
Oxlade Enterprises Pty Ltd ATF Oxlade Family Trust tas Total Choice Home Loans
Address
3 Norfolk Street Fremante WA 6160
Phone and e-mail
0894334841 Office@totalchoicehomeloans.com.au
Australian Credit Licence Number 385844
Internal Complaints Officer contact details Jonathan Oxlade 08 94334841 3 Norfolk Street Fremantle WA 6160 Jon@totalchoicehomeloans.com.au
External Dispute Resolution Scheme contact details COSL (Credit Ombudsman Services Limited)
phone 1800138422 www.cosl.com.au
Services we provide
We will help you to choose a loan or lease which is suitable for your purposes. We will provide you with information on a broad range of financiers and products. Once you have chosen a loan or lease that is suitable for you, we will help you to obtain an approval.
Our panel lenders
We source finance from a panel of financiers. The financiers named below are the six financiers with whom we conduct the most business.
ANZ , Bankwest , Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, NAB Broker, ING Bank Direct
We will need information from you
Under the NCCP Act, we are obliged to ensure that any loan or principal increase to a loan we help you to obtain or any lease we help you to enter is not unsuitable for you. To decide this, we may need to ask you some questions in order to assess whether the loan or lease is not unsuitable. The law requires us to:
- make reasonable inquiries about your requirements and objectives;
- make reasonable inquiries about your financial situation;
- take reasonable steps to verify that financial situation.
Credit will be unsuitable if at the time of the assessment, it is likely that at the time the credit is provided:
- you could not pay or could only pay with substantial hardship;
- the credit will not meet your requirements and objectives.
For example, if you can only repay by selling your principal place of residence, it is presumed that the loan will cause substantial hardship unless the contrary is proved. For this reason we must ask you to provide a significant amount of information. It is therefore very important that the information you provide us is accurate.
We must provide you with a copy of our preliminary credit assessment of your application if you ask within 7 years of when we assist you. We are only required to give you a copy of the credit assessment if we give you credit assistance.
If we arrange a loan for you to purchase or refinance real estate, remember you must make your own enquiries about the value of the real estate and its potential for future growth. Although we may obtain a valuation, that is for our own use and you should not rely on it.
Fees payable by you
We sometimes charge a fee for our services. More details about the fees payable by you will be set out in a quote which we will give you before a finance application is lodged. You may obtain from us information about how these fees and charges are worked out and a reasonable estimate of those fees.
Commissions received by us
We may receive commissions from the lenders and lessors who provide finance for you as our customers. These are not fees payable by you. You may obtain from us information about a reasonable estimate of those commissions and how the commission is worked out.
Upfront commission payable by lenders in relation to loans is calculated as a percentage of the loan amount and is generally in the range of 0% and 0.77% of the loan amount. It is usually paid after settlement of the loan.
Trail commission payable by lenders in relation to loans is generally calculated regularly (monthly, quarterly, bi-monthly or annually) on the outstanding loan balance and is paid in arrears. The trail commission payable by lenders is generally in the range of 0% per annum and 0.35% per annum of the outstanding loan amount.
We have a volume bonus arrangement in place with Commonwealth Bank under which those financiers may pay us additional commission depending on the total volume of business we arrange with them.
Commissions payable by us
We source referrals from a broad range of sources. For example, we may pay fees to call centre companies, real estate agents, accountants, or lawyers for referring you to us. These referral fees are generally small amounts and accord with usual business practice. These are not fees payable by you. You may, on request, obtain a reasonable estimate of those commissions and how the commission is worked out.
Our internal dispute resolution scheme
We hope you are delighted with our services, but if you have any complaints you should notify us by contacting our Complaints Officer by:
Telephoning 08 94334841
E-mailing office@totalchoicehomeloans.com.au
Writing to PO Box 89 Palmyra WA 6957
or by speaking to any representative of our business who will refer you to the Complaints Officer. You should explain the details of your complaint as clearly as you can. You may do this verbally or in writing.
When we receive a complaint, we will attempt to resolve it promptly. We hope that in this way we will stop any unnecessary and inappropriate escalation of minor complaints.
Our external dispute resolution scheme
If we do not reach agreement on your complaint, you may refer the complaint to an ASIC Approved External Dispute Resolution (EDR) Scheme. Our external dispute resolution provider is specified above. External dispute resolution is a free service established to provide you with an independent mechanism to resolve specific complaints. You can obtain further details about our dispute resolution procedures and obtain details of our privacy policy on request.
Things you should know
We don’t make any promises about the value of any property you finance with us or its future prospects. You should always rely on your own enquiries.
We don’t provide legal or financial advice. It is important you understand your legal obligations under the loan, and the financial consequences. If you have any doubts, you should obtain independent legal and financial advice before you enter any loan contract. We look forward to providing exceptional service.
Questions?
If you have any questions about this credit guide or anything else about our services, just ask at any time. We’re here to help you.
Total Choice Home Loan’s consumer lending products include:
- Home Loans
- Residential Property Investment Loans
- Personal Loans
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