Why should you hire your own real estate agent before buying a new build construction home?
Why should you hire your own real estate agent before buying a new build construction home?
Mortgage / Home Loan Tips
A series of tips regarding mortgages / home loans to educate and inform.
Tip Of The Week – Mortgage Insurance
There’s a lot of myths out there in the marketplace regarding mortgage insurance and it’s my hope that with this week’s tip, we will break those myths and teach you what mortgage insurance is, when it is required and . . .
Tip Of The Week – Pre-Qualification
What is a pre-qualification? Well, as the name would imply, it is a review of your specific financial situation relative to the guidelines and rules of various loan programs before you start looking at homes to make sure that you qualify.
Tip Of The Week – Interest Rates
You may have been hearing all over the news, all over social media, the internet, the financial news networks that interest rates are back down near historic lows and that’s true. What I would like to do here today is take that discussion the next step further and explain what lower interest rates may mean to you in two different scenarios . . . .
Tip Of the Week – Credit
So if you are interested in buying a home and you believe that your credit may be less than ideal, it’s very important that you are working with an experienced mortgage professional, someone who has experience with credit challenges and knows how best to advise you to navigate through that process.
Tip of the Week – Down Payments
Hey everyone. Kirk Brewer here, branch manager and loan geek at Finance of America Mortgage. Welcome to this week’s Loan Geek Mortgage Tip of the Week. This week, I want to talk to you guys about down payments. There’s a myth out there in the marketplace that it takes 20% down to purchase a home. …