circle the extra word in each line Getting a mortgage 1. Someone told to me a few months ago that getting a mortgage would be easy. How 2. wrong they were! When I first went into the bank, I asked if them how much I could 3. borrow. They refused that to answer ever such a simple question, saying that I had to 4. actually find a house before they could tell me whether they would have land me the 5. money or not. I thought this was ridiculous and so told it a white lie, saying that 6. I had been already found a house. They finally said they would lend me the money, so 7. that was great. Then the problems started. A few weeks later a friend told me that about 8. a wonderful flat that was for sale. He suggested to our buying it together because it was 9. so large and I agreed. When I went back to the bank and said so I was planning to 10. buy a flat with a friend, the bank manger denied doing that he had ever said the bank 11. would give me a mortgage and claimed that he has had looked at my finances and knew 12. I wasn’t earning enough to borrow money. I begged with him to have another look at my 13. records as I knew he was wrong. Finally, he agreed me to reconsider my case and 14. eventually sent me a letter which stated that the bank would was quite happy to give me 15. a mortgage. By then, though, it was said too late as someone else had bought the flat!