If you are a homeowner who was lucky enough to buy when mortgage rates were low, you may have no interest in refinancing your present loan. But perhaps you bought your home when rates were higher. Or perhaps you have an adjustable rate loan and would like to obtain different terms. Should you refinance? This [...]
How To Buy the Home You Want Mortgage insurance (MI) allows you to choose from a wider price range of homes. How? Lenders are generally willing to accept a lower down payment than the standard 20% if the lender obtains mortgage insurance on your loan through a mortgage insurance company. You can not only get [...]
When you’re looking for a mortgage, you’re likely to shop among lenders for the most favorable interest rate, and the lowest points and other up-front charges. When you find the most favorable terms and the lender that you want, you’ll apply to that lender. But when you get to settlement, will you actually receive the [...]
With dozens of competing lenders and mortgages to choose from, you may think that today’s home loan market is terribly confusing. It really isn’t though if you know the basic facts about financing a house. That’s what this brochure is designed to give you. Let’s start with the questions that are probably uppermost in your [...]
Introduction Buying a home may be the most exciting, confusing and stressful financial transaction you ever undertake. Even if you have done it several times you can still find the process complicated and intimidating, particularly when it comes to getting a mortgage loan. Countless loan documents, unfamiliar terminology and uncertainty serve to temper the joy [...]
