Good Morning! Don’t look now, but FHA mortgage insurance rates could be going up again soon. The house recently passed the Federal Housing Administration Fiscal Solvency Act of 2012. Now the bill makes it’s way to the Senate. The bill gives FHA the authority to raise it’s mortgage insurance premiums to as high as 2.05%…
You may have been told you need a 620 minimum credit score to get a VA loan. Not true! That’s a rule for that mortgage company – not the VA. I don’t have a minimum score to get a VA loan! Here are the keys to get a VA loan with less than a 620…
Rates on Conventional loans are about to go up. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) announced recently that it has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to raise guarantee fees (g-fees) on single family mortgages by an average of 10 basis points. The changes to g-fee pricing represent a step toward encouraging greater participation in…
Good Morning! If you are thinking about getting cash out of your home in Texas… …here’s what you need to know before you proceed… If you get a traditional Texas Home Equity Loan to pay off your current mortgage (assuming you have a mortgage), and give you cash out – you need to be aware…
Good Morning! One of the things I can see on the back end of my web site is the number of people that look at each page. I guess there are alot of people that owe back taxes to the IRS. …because this page on how to get a loan when you owe back taxes…
Generally speaking HUD likes a borrower to only have one FHA loan at a time. However, there are certain circumstances where it’s possible to obtain a 2nd FHA loan. One of these situations is if the number of dependents has increased to the point that the current house no longer meets the families needs. We…
Good Morning! I had this issue come up again earlier this week and I wanted to revisit it with you… This may sound crazy, but having cash for a down payment in the mortgage industry is a bad thing. If you have cash saved up for a down payment on a home – and you…
Good Morning! FHA is a beautiful loan program, but if you asked me what I don’t like most about it I would have to say the monthly MI rates have creeped up. The monthly mortgage insurance factor for FHA is now 1.25%. A viable alternative to FHA with much lower monthly mortgage insurance is a…
Good Morning! I wanted to make you aware of some guideline changes on purchasing and refinancing second homes. Our maximum loan to value ratio on second homes used to be 80%. …In other words you had to put down 20% on a second home purchase. Now we can go up to 90% on second home…
Good Morning! Did you realize I do escrow hold backs for Pools? …sure do! Here’s how it works… Let’s say you find the perfect house, but it doesn’t have a pool. You can still contract to purchase the house, and we can write in an escrow hold back for building a pool after closing.…