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Before You Buy a Home Why Get Pre-Approved?

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

OK. You’ve made the decision. You’re ready to buy a house.  Great!  You’ve got that dream home pictured in your head.  Now all you have to do is find a Realtor, make your offer and move in.  Right?  Wrong.

Your first step should be to find a trustworthy mortgage professional.   But that’s not the fun part, you may say. Why start with a mortgage professional?  In a nutshell, this can save money, time and increase your bargaining power.

Your mortgage broker is going to be able to tell you first if you can qualify to purchase a home at all.  Second, if you are in the running for purchasing, he or she can tell you how much home you can qualify for.  Think about it.  Do you and your Realtor want to run around for a month or two worth of weekends, finally find your dream home, just to find out that you cannot afford it?!  That’s a lot of time, and time is money (or at least a lot of wasted weekends).  Wouldn’t it be better up front to know what you can and cannot buy, zero in on that, and achieve that wonderful feeling of success?  Of course.

Well, you may have already thought of all that.  However, did you realize that the seller of your dream home may give you preferential treatment if you’re pre-approved?  The seller has a life too and time lines like the rest of us.  They want deals that are going to work.  They don’t want their home under contract, just to have the deal fall through because the buyer cannot qualify!  So, let’s say you make a bid on a house and another party makes a bid at the same time for the same amount.  The other bidder is pre-approved, you aren’t.  Which bid should they accept?  Obvious.  Another scenario, let’s say you (not pre-approved) make a bid and another bidder bids slighter lower but is pre-approved.  Which bid would you accept?

And one last matter to cover, there are different levels of pre-approvals.  The lowest level might be called pre-qualification and this involves the mortgage professional taking your information (income, expenses, etc.), putting it all together and letting you know how much home you can qualify for based on the numbers you provide.  Another level of pre-approval is for the mortgage professional to run the loan through automated underwriting (getting more technical, here) to get an approval provided that all your info can be verified.  The highest level would be running the loan through a lender and actually doing all the verifications.  Obviously, the higher level of pre-approval gives you more to stand on and carries the most weight when bidding on a home.  In any case, your mortgage professional should provide you with a letter stating on what level you are pre-approved.

Hopefully you found this article helpful, it was provided by JVM Lending, the leader in CA Home Loan and California Mortgage loans.

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Build your dream home using USDA home loans

Sunday, August 8th, 2010

If you are one of the people who are looking for an economic option that will enable you to build your dream home with exciting loan option, there is wonderful option that will fulfill all your requirements in best possible manner. There are many people who have been benefited in a great manner with the help of this fabulous option. The USDA home loan option provides flexible option that is sure to provide quick access to desired level of money. You will be able to obtain unlimited level of money for the purpose of building home. The flexible repayment option will make it possible to repay the loan amount in a gradual and significant manner. You are sure to get benefited in a great manner through this loan option.

  • Low interest home loan option for people willing to build home at rural locations
  • Opportunity to save large amount of money through low interest rates
  • Flexible repayment option that matches your capacity

Saving money through USDA home loan

One of the powerful aspects of this home loan is that they will enable large level of money savings when compared to other kinds of ordinary home loans. You will be able to build home in suitable rural locations. It is important to note that this loan is not available for people who are willing to build home in urban areas. Upon fulfillment of various kinds of criteria that is stated by United Sates Department of Agriculture, your usda home loan amount will be processed in a rapid manner. You can select from various kind of flexible repayment option that enables you to select the best package that will fulfill all your specific needs in best possible manner. You can visit the official website to learn more about the criteria of this loan type.

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