Buying your first home can be a very exciting experience. It can also be a frustrating one if you don’t have all the information necessary to make the journey a smooth one.
Unless you’re paying cash, you will be asking a mortgage company or bank to lend you a lot of money. It should be pretty obvious that the lender wants to make sure you will repay them so they are going to carefully examine your current financial situation to determine if you can and will pay them back.
The four area lender reviews are:
Credit History
Asset
Income
Reserves
In part two, we are going discuss the Asset or the property you will be buying. (more…)
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Temecula Real Estate – Do you know what your lender looks for in a loan application – Part 2
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Temecula Real Estate – Do you know what your lender looks for in a loan application? Part 3
Sunday, June 27th, 2010In previous posts we’ve discussed the first two legs of the loan application: Credit History and Asset.
Part 3 is going to focus on the third leg of the loan application CH-A-I-R, or Income.Where Credit History is concerned with your willingness to repay. Income is how the lender determines your ability to repay.
If you’ve been using one of the myriad of “how much do I qualify for?” applications on many lender’s websites, you’re probably getting misled by the results.
Why? Because unless you have lending experience, you probably aren’t calculating your income the same as a lender would. The exception being, if you are salaried and each paycheck is exactly the same. (more…)
Temecula Real Estate – Do you know what your lender looks for in a loan application?
Thursday, June 17th, 2010Buying your first home can be a very exciting experience. It can also be a frustrating one if you don’t have all the information necessary to make the journey a smooth one.
Unless you’re paying cash, you will be asking a mortgage company or bank to lend you money to finance the purchase. The lender wants to lend you the money, that’s how they stay in business but they also want to make sure you will repay them so they are going to carefully examine your current financial situation to determine if you can and will pay them back.



