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69Recent Mortgage Rates Trends
Recent mortgage rates trends have defied all long-range predictions. Back in '07, when mortgage rates were sliding down towards 6%, all the pundits were saying that it couldn't last much longer. I mean we were talking mortgage rates lower than had been seen at any time since the oil price shocks to inflation in the early 1970s.
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63Explain Mortgage Insurance
It's easy to explain mortgage insurance - you just need to remember that mortgage insurance is not insurance for you, the borrower. Mortgage insurance exists to protect the mortgage lender. If we are to explain mortgage insurance in simple terms, compare it with something a bit more concrete - car insurance, for example, or home insurance.
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65How Much Can I Borrow? Mortgage Calculation Made Easy
"How much can I borrow?" Mortgage payments are a huge part of our regular financial commitments, and most lenders have strict limits on measures such as the percentage of your income that you can spend making your mortgage repayments, the size of your downpayment, and the amount of other debt you are carrying.
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59FHA Loans For People With Bad Credit
FHA loans for people with bad credit are actually reasonably accessible. It's true that you need to meet some FHA loan requirements in order to qualify for an FHA loan, but those FHA loan requirements do not include having an unblemished credit record.
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65The HUD FHA Insurance Fund
The HUD FHA insurance fund was established during the Great Depression, when rates of foreclosure and default rose sharply. The purpose of the fund was to protect lower income Americans from being squeezed out of the home ownership market. These days, we need it more than ever!
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67The FHA 203k Program
The FHA 203k program was designed to address the Catch-22 that exists for buyers who need to "fix up" or renovate their property in order to make it livable.Traditionally, lenders will only advance funds...
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61FHA Loans
FHA loans help millions of Americans to own their own homes. FHA loana are federal assistance mortgage loans in the United States, insured by the Federal Housing Administration. FHA loans may be issued by any federally qualified lender. The beauty of FHA loans is that they have more lenient lending requirements than conventional mortgages. Lenders are nervous about certain borrowers, because they appear to have a higher risk of default. FHA loans are insured, which reduces the lender's risk and
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71FHA 203k Loans
FHA 203k loans solve a major problem for homebuyers. When your new dream home is a fixer-upper, getting a mortgage can be tough. Your bank won't lend the money to buy the house until the repairs are complete, and the repairs can't be done until the purchase house has been settled. FHA 203k loans were designed to address the Catch-22 that exists for buyers who need to "fix up" or renovate their property in order to make it livable. How do you pay the mortgage, pay for renovations, and pay rent,
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64Mortgage Rate Predictions
Mortgage rates predictions can't be trusted - at least, not completely - in this current uncertain economic environment. When life moved a slower pace, and when mortgages were less widespread, movements in mortgage rates predictions were much less significant than they are today.
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48Best New Personal Finance Blogs 2008
Whether it's mortgages, interest rates, foreclosures, and refinancing, or it's credit cards, debt consolidation and credit repair, financial issues impact every one of us in different ways throughout our lives. Schools don't teach this stuff, and it can be pretty difficult to pick it up as adults, too. Blogs can help to fill the gap, because a blog post is a neat, contained piece of information about one specific topic - sort of "bite-sized" financial education, as it were.
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