
24 January 2025 | 1 reply
With mortgage rates close to 7% and generally soft homebuying sentiment, strength in existing home sales is unlikely to be sustained," said Alice Zheng, an economist at Citigroup.

27 January 2025 | 5 replies
I believe United FCU is best. 20% down, usually a 10yr term (they offer a longer term though), and an interest rate that's pretty close to the current average for conventional loans.

19 January 2025 | 8 replies
With that low interest rate, you will have paid down a lot of equity in the deal and should be able to finance with a bank.

30 January 2025 | 13 replies
It's probably going to mean paying points at closing, a high rate, and a serious pre-payment penalty (like 5 years).

23 January 2025 | 7 replies
Typically this means they will take longer to close, may not have all the information for the companies they work with, and most hard money brokers get their money by taking an existing product and adding extra points to pay their fee.What is your investor success rate?

27 January 2025 | 7 replies
I agree with the others here that say you need to have some skin in the game, if you are going to live there yourself, get an FHA loan rather than owner financing, you can get a 3.5% down loan, personally I do not love these as they require PMI which is an additional expense, and you also need bring additional funds for closing at least for taxes, title, attorney and transfer fees . borrowing from anyone else for the down payment, to include a personal loan from the bank is not a good idea, those again will be higher int. rate.

28 January 2025 | 9 replies
We are not likely to see rates that low again in our lifetime.

19 January 2025 | 9 replies
I understand they have a little bit higher interest rate, but what are the risks of DSCR loans?

22 January 2025 | 14 replies
My firm has several lenders who can seamlessly close in 15 days on 'traditional' mortgages at/below market rates and we've been doing so for a couple of years now.

25 January 2025 | 17 replies
It's no different than their 2-year, low interest rate teaser houses.