If you are looking to get approved for a home loan, you may be vaguely familiar with what it takes to pass the underwriting process and get approved. Most people only get a home loan every few years at the most so it is understandable that the average person doesn’t know the fundamentals of getting… Continue Reading
As we close out the third quarter of 2022, mortgage rates have hit a 20-year high. The 30-year rate on fixed-rate mortgages sits at just over 7% now. If you need to buy a home or refinance your current mortgage, what can you do to save on your mortgage right now? Let’s explore some money-saving… Continue Reading
When trying to purchase your first home, many things can be confusing to borrowers during the mortgage process. From acronyms like DTI, ATR and front-end and back-end ratios, calculating income is an area many first time homebuyers don’t understand. However, a simple review of how lenders will evaluate your income can help you determine if… Continue Reading
You’ve cleaned up your credit, put some savings in the bank, paid down some debts and you’re finally nearing one of your lifelong goals of homeownership. All that hard work is about to pay off into one of the ultimate American dreams. There’s only one problem – what loan program do you choose? In today’s… Continue Reading
Let’s say you’re buying a house and you have calculated your front ratio or the comparison of your proposed housing debt to your usable income. You know your lender allows a 43% total DTI ratio, and your front ratio is an enviable 36%. But your loan officer informs you that your total or “back” DTI… Continue Reading
So, you’re interested in getting a mortgage, but you know for a fact that you’re anything but an ideal candidate. You’ve resigned yourself to a life of renting and living under other people’s rules, because there’s no way you’re going to get your debt-to-income ratio into an ideal place and there’s not a house to… Continue Reading
It wasn’t that long ago that the LA Times wrote a scathing article about the widespread effect that student loan debt is having on the housing market. One report they cited estimated that 414,000 home sales, or eight percent of the average number of annual home sales, would disappear because of this excess debt. The… Continue Reading
In the first part of this series, we covered the problems you might encounter because of the public record, and in the second, we discussed fixing issues with your credit file — part three is all about the “other” stuff that didn’t quite fit into the first two. There are countless miscellaneous issues you might… Continue Reading