So my inclination is to compromise her 50% request payment to 25% as stated by Mark and Martin. 

2) Your credit score3) Purchase price and down payment amountI would recommend shopping rates with a few local mortgage brokers.

If you're a single mom with student loans, a car payment, and living paycheck-to-paycheck, then $20,000 would be devastating and a reserve is critical.

Do they use a servicing company to make the payments directly to the , or do they make payments directly to the seller and hope they pass them on to the lender?

I'm an investor and mortgage broker and have options for loans that go as low as $75,000 and down payments as low as 15%, which makes it easier to stay above $75,000.

. - The home is 2 payments behind and already got a letter from the lender about future foreclose.

My client bought a 22 unit building and used this strategy and walked out of closing with a check for $800k to perform the rest of the renovations, paid himself back his already expended rehab costs and his entire down payment.  

Find Brandon's videos on YouTube for the "four square" method of analyzing homes and practice.

Get the siblings on board to take payments for 15 years at 6% interest.

It was a bridge loan, 8.25% interest only payments for 12 months, 2 points.