Ok. I know of this case. Let's see the scenarios yeah.
"Investor A" assuming staying with parents so no need spend $$$ on his/her own housing. His/Her salary is gross RM 6,000 which after deduction shall be around (RM 6000-348.35-14.75-660=) RM 4976.90
He/She bought a property say in 2010 for RM 450,000. Mortgage repayment is RM 1941.85 (Base on 90% loan, 35 years tenure, 4.6% interest).
So now, the his/her Debt Service Ratio (DSR) is 1941.85/4976.90*100=39%
Then he/she rents it out at RM 1,500 (4% yield).
That would be negative cashflow of RM 441.85 per month. Ok la. No big deal.
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Now he/she use the tenancy agreement of RM 1500 as income documents to bank. So basically his/her nett income is now RM 4976.90+1500= 6476.90
Based on RM 6476.90, and assume DSR is at 70%, he/she is eligible to take a loan with monthly instalment of (6476.90 x 70%)-1941.85= RM 2591.98 which the loan amount comes to RM 540,594
So now with a new property, his/her monthly instalment will be RM 4533.83 for 2 properties.
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Imagine this particular person with nett salary income of RM 4976.90 have a repayment of RM 4533.83 which left RM 443.07 monthly if the rental income suddenly stop coming in. Just think and see if this person can survive any probability of interest rate hike, vacant unit without tenant or market slightly crash?
There are people like this out there.
And I have not even talk about how genuine is their tenancy agreement (there are chances some of them using fake agreement or inflated rental price). Also imagine those people who leverage on multiple more tenancy agreement to max out their capability. I'm not saying there is a lot of people like this, but I'm very aware that there is a lot people using their tenancy agreement to take higher loan amount.
Before bnm clamp down, believe similar scenario was fairly rampant among flippers.
This is how many flippers plan to retire in 3 years time. If this is not subprime, what is?