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FHA financing why you should work with a broker: 4% appreciation over the last 17 years
You mentioned earlier that property values are up 71% long term, even though we had this 50% drop. Youre talking about the average 4% appreciation per year since 1992.
Right, I did some calculations I was working on a book last year and one of these days I may get around to publishing it. Its called Real Estates Future and what we were looking at was a statistical model to be able to pick the top and the bottom of all the real estate markets. I hadnt looked at the thing for about a year until I was working with Michael the other day and I started pulling it out and going lets run the model and see where we are in regards to the market, and one of the things I looked at is the last time we saw the bottom of the market was when I was selling houses for the RTC and that was in 1992, the median home price was $76,000. Median home price now is $130,000. That means from 1992 until now it went up 71%, thats after we just saw a 50% decline. So it is up 4% per year on average, and where else are you going to get a return like that? Even if you put 3.5% down on a house you are getting a heck of a lot more than a 4% return. If you look at the internal rate of return it is significantly greater.
Right and dont buy a house because you are looking at a rate of return. If you are a first time home buyer and you can qualify for this program, if you have been living in an apartment for the last three years and you just want to have a better place for yourself and your family to live, I know right now there are a lot of fabulous houses out there for $130,000. I saw one the other day that was listed at $100,000 that I know was probably at least $250,000 a couple of years ago. Yes, four bedroom-three bath houses, we are currently working on several cases at $150,000 or below, in good parts of Maricopa county.
I ran some numbers before as well just looking at the number of homes that sold in Maricopa County in January and in that month 45% of all the houses that were sold, sold for less than $130,000. And when I had the example earlier about the median family could buy a $280,000 that was 85% of the market. 85% of all the houses that were sold in Maricopa County could be purchased by a family of four with a median income.
And you know with the loan limits the way they are with FHA with 3.5% down you can go all the way up to $358,000 and still only put 3.5% down. Pretty much anyone can get in and I would probably say that 90-95% of all the houses sold were within the FHA loan limit. That means you can still get in with 3.5% down, you dont have to have perfect a credit report, you cant have a lot of bumps on it but it doesnt have to be perfect, you dont have to have a huge FICO score.
Do they even look at FICO scores? Its complicated, the Federal Housing Administration does not have a minimum FICO score requirement, however all of the mortgage banks have overlays, so in other words nobody uses just the FHA guidelines, they have their own parameters on top of the FHA requirements. One of the main reasons why you would want to go to a broker instead of directly to your bank is they may or may not have enough overlays that will work in your favor. As a broker we have all of the major mortgage banks and we know the guidelines, so we can make anyone fit into a house that can get approved.
Right and thats always the nice thing about working with a broker because you have, lets say you have 20 banks that you are signed up with and you are FHA with all of them, so you have 20 different sets of guidelines that you can fit the borrower into. If a home buyer went to a bank and they had to do an appraisal and a credit check and all that and then they denied you, you would have to go to a different bank and they would have to do all that same stuff all over again. When you are working with a broker they do it one time and then shop it to 20 different lenders.
Yes, and I have to point something out more importantly, if you go directly to your bank and you do get declined after you have spent the money on all these different things the process is much more difficult because you have to start all over again and the reason you were declined has to be explained as well and it becomes a much more lengthy process. Where as when working with a broker you dont have to do that. We take the hit for you and we move you into the right lender of your choice…
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First Time Home Buyer – Is it better to use a mortgage broker or go directly to a local bank?
Who is it better to talk to about getting our first mortgage. A bank or mortgage broker?
Now there will probably be many that will disagree with me but here goes….
I’m a Realtor and I have experience first hand as the market and the mortgage industry was changing. The brokers were not able to close deals as often (didn’t say they couldn’t) as they could in the past.
Brokers shop for loan products and lenders already have them. And most of all, the brokers which are able to get you a loan through a traditional lender, has their cut in the process fees.
My advice is to get through an online site such as bankrate.com (I’m sure there’s others) and see who has the best rate and go talk with them about their closing cost fees to compare. It’s a little work, but you will save in the end.
Lastly, as I represent sellers and an offer has a pre-approval from a mortgage company, I don’t give it the same consideration as a direct lender.
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Tax Credit for First Time Home Buyer Mortgage, $8000 Government Assistance Program for Home Finance
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Part 2 (Excerpt)
The median income family can afford twice the median priced home; prices drop over 50%
And now I mentioned Dan Havey is back in the studio with us, Dan has done a lot of great things in the mortgage industry. He left us about a year and a half ago, is that right Dan?
Yes, I left the mortgage industry in October of 2007. Tell us a little bit more about yourself.
As you know I came originally from Wisconsin, where I got a degree in Business Finance and I came out here in 1989 and started working with my brother selling real estate owned-REO, bank owned properties for Fannie Mae, Countrywide, and the Resolution Trust Corporation-RTC which was the government entity that was put in charge of disposing of all the real estate owned by the 1800 S&Ls that had failed. I did that until about 1995 when I moved into the mortgage industry and there for 12 years I worked predominately with bankruptcy attorneys helping their clients get out of bankruptcy and foreclosure. I left the mortgage industry in October of 2007. Now I am working predominately in the arena of marketing for real estate and mortgage companies, helping out companies, just like Im here helping out Michael today, to get people to realize that right now actually is a really good time to buy.
There are a couple of points I want to make and it was something that Michael had said earlier. The first one was that 4% interest rate. Originally Obama said a couple of weeks ago, when he rolled out the mortgage plan, that they were going to take the $200 billion and use it to buy mortgage backed securities, well the article I was reading today said it appears that plan may have changed. Instead of buying the mortgage backs they were actually buying the stock of Fannie and Freddie to help support the company and keep these companies going under. I dont quite understand why being how they own them now.
Well youve got to hand it to the government they have really done a heck of a job helping Fannie Mae out, for instance today the stock is up to $0.41. Wow, doing so well, I remember when it was $150 or so, where it was at the top of the market.
Today, right now is definitely the best time even if rates dont get down to the 4% point. The beauty of it and were going to talk more about this in a later segment, is that we have seen a 51% decline in home values from the peak of the market. So you dont have to have the absolute greatest interest rate in order to be able to buy a house today. The median home price right now is $130,000 in Maricopa County, it was $264,000 just two years ago.
So the median home price is $130,000? We are going to talk a little bit about what a person has to make to actually qualify for that. Well it is definitely well within the means of a median income family. Right now a median income family makes about $64,000 in the state of Arizona according to the US Census Bureau and HUD. I ran some numbers today, I think at 6% interest and at that rate they can buy a $280,000 house. So you can buy twice the median home price if you are making just what the median income family would be in the state of Arizona. So the median household income buys double the median priced house in Maricopa County. That is correct, at 6% interest.
And the reality of it is interest rates are not even that high right now. So for people to be waiting for that perfect interest rate of 4% it doesnt really matter if it gets here or not because right now is such an incredibly fabulous time to be buying a house. There are so many foreclosures out there on the market right now, there are so many short sales out there on the market right now, and the point you made earlier is very important, that people have to get in and get prequalified, know exactly what they can buy. Now in many cases you are going to need a down payment, so get with your mortgage broker, get with Velocity Financial and start working on that program of getting those funds together for the down payment as well.
Dan Havey we talked in the past about whats available for financing these days, interesting to give little pat on the back for Velocity Financial is one of less than 15% of all of the lenders in the state of Arizona that are qualified to do FHA financed homes. Now FHA financing, people used to think it was only for first time home buyers, thats no longer the case. The FHA loan which only requires 3.5% down payment it doesnt matter if you have owned a home before and in many cases you can own another home now so long as your new purchase is going to be your primary residence you can utilize FHA financing and put only 3.5% down.
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How long after closing escrow on a house are you required to make the first mortgage payment?
I was just wondering how long after closing escrow do you make your first mortgage payment?
Barring anything unusual, you do not make a payment until the 1st of the 2nd month after you close.
So if you close on December 5, 2009, you would pay the 1st payment on February 1, 2010.
If you close on January 2, 2009, you would pay the 1st payment on March 1, 2010.
If you close on December 29, 2009, you would pay the 1st payment on February 1, 2010.
Good luck.
First Principles’ Dachille Discusses Fed Policy, Assets: Video
Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — Doug Dachille, chief executive officer of First Principles Capital Management LLC, talks with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about Federal Reserve monetary policy and mortgage rates.
The Fed said its top officials last month debated how and when to shrink the central bank’s $2.26 trillion balance sheet, with some policy makers pushing to start selling assets in the near future. (Source: Bloomberg)
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First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, FHA Loans, Low Mortgage Interest Rate Program
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Part 7 (Excerpt)
FHA Guidelines regarding foreclosures and first time home buyers; incredible home buying value
Ok I was just checking because I thought this was a story about all the mortgage backed securities that were going under. It started at the top and it worked its way down. The reality of it is that people were buying homes, not reading what they were signing, not understanding how it worked and shame on the people who were putting it in front of them, knowing that they didnt know and we all need to take a little responsibility here for this past crisis. It is not just the Wall Street firms; its not just the mortgage companies and banks, the brokers have little in fact to do with it, we didnt create the loan products that people were buying, we were merely disseminating it to the public. I am glad to say I was not a part of any of that. I was able to stay away and do traditional, conventional type financing for people. So luckily I didnt have a lot of clients who got stuck into that nightmare.
Speaking of that nightmare, Dan when we talk about the people who have had foreclosures, their lives have been turned around, turned over and they think that there is no where for them to go. One of the nice things about the Federal Housing Administration loan, the FHA loan, thats the first time home buyer type loan, the minimum down payment loan, its only 3 years after you have had a foreclosure that you can qualify to purchase a home again. So it is important if you have had a foreclosure, you need to point your future away from the flame, you need to save your money, do your best, work as tightly as you can on a budget and look forward to that time when you can go back out and buy a home again.
Property values are going to be up from where they are today, but there is still going to be plenty of great value out there and there are not going to be loan products that are going to get you in trouble again. They wont exist. What really caused the great inflation in home values starting in about 2002 was the financing was just getting crazy. I wont get into a whole lot of technical stuff about mortgage backed securities and all that, but the lenders were creating products, selling them off their books, thinking that they would never have to worry about them again. They sold trillions of dollars worth of these loans and those are the ones that are going bad.
Ones that were toxic in the first place: the stated incomes, the option ARMs, all those loans are all gone now. I was saying earlier today that we are back to where we were in financing in 1992-1993, back when the median home price was $75,000. Now I dont think we are going to go anywhere near that again, I think at $130,000 we are getting real close to the bottom of the market and what I was thinking was when I got into the business in 1995 and you were in at about the same time I was, and I remember talking to a guy who comes into our office to sell us loan programs, now this is the very beginning of the really crazy stuff, and he was saying we can do 70% no doc loans.
We go, what do you mean? If somebody puts down 30% they dont have to verify anything, they dont have to verify their employment; they dont have to verify taxes, anything. We were absolutely floored, but by the peak of the market we were doing 100% no doc loans. If you were breathing they gave you a loan and the credit scores didnt have to be that high, I think I saw them as low as 600…
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Can I get a home equity loan with a first mortgage?
I am buying my first home with an FHA loan. The mortgage company I am using doesn’t do a 203K loan and I would like to use money to improve the house. I was approved for $40,000 more than purchase price and only want $20K max. My credit is not perfect… I’m trying to find out the chances of being able to get a home equity loan with a first mortgage. The house is valued $277K and the loan will be for $229000. Any help would be great!
A $229,000 mortgage on a $277,000 property is an 82% loan-to-value (LTV) ratio. So, you have some wiggle room in obtaining a second (these usually max out at 90% LTV).
My first question would be where is the other $48,000 coming from for the purchase? If it’s cash, then you will have no problem getting a home equity loan for about $20,000 with your remaining equity (up to the 90% LTV). If you came up with the $48,000 with a second mortgage, you’re already at 100% LTV and, particularly with blemished credit, I doubt you’ll be able to get the additional funds.
The fact that you were approved for $40K over the purchase price means nothing. A bank is only going to lend up to the value of the house and, in today’s mortgage industry situation, I would be surprised if anyone were willing to go over 90% LTV.
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Because of the recent foreclosure crisis, new credit standards for first-time home buyers (any home buyer really) have been put into place. Depending on which side of the fence you’re on, it’s either a good thing, or a hindrance to buying a home.
This article will discuss FICO scores and mortgage qualifications. Following is a look back at what FICO scores used to have to be to qualify for a mortgage, and what they need to be now.
First-Time Home Buyer Mortgage Qualifications: A Look Back at Old FICO Standards
On a recent news cast, the newscaster blared from the television that some credit card companies were considering making 740 the FICO score you had to have to qualify for a credit card.
In the past, if you were dead or alive, you could get a credit card. Family pets have been known to receive credit cards in the mail as well. Really, there have been instances of dead people and pets being issued credit cards. This is how free willing credit card companies were when extending credit. Now, Bill Gates might have a problem qualifying for one.
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Does a first mortgage get paid off completely before a second mortgage gets any money?
I hold a second mortgage on someones home and they are now in foreclosure. Will I get any of my money back? Does the first mortgage have to receive all their money first before I get any?
Normally the first lien holder is the first in line to get paid. That is why so much care is taken at closing to verify that any and all liens on a property are identified and accounted for any time a new mortgage is put into place. Every lien holder has a place in line so to speak and the proceeds after sale are limited. Those at the back of the line may come away empty handed. That is the bulk of the reason 2nd mortgage rates are so high – The loans are riskier.
You may not be completely out of luck though. Once the property is foreclosed on, in theory that debt now becomes an unsecured debt and you could seek a deficiency balance judgment against the former homeowner. Somewhat similar to a repo on a car procedure.
It’s best to contact a real estate attorney and see what the best steps are to protect yourself.