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We all would ideally like to keep aside a substantial fund to see us through bad days. However life cannot be predicted and a sudden circumstance may arise where the fund proves to be insufficient to meet our needs. Till the time we are employed and earning our own money, we need not worry about the cash inflow. Life after retirement is the time when we need to be well prepared to meet sudden liquidity requirements which may arise. The sudden stop to the constant inflow of cash already causes a strain on even our regular household budget. In such a scenario an emergency could turn our world upside down. Reverse mortgages are an ideal way for retired citizens to deal with such a circumstance.
Reverse mortgages are a convenient process of getting a loan in lieu of property owned by the borrower. The main difference and convenience of getting reverse mortgages is that the property owner gets loan against his house but he can continue to retain the ownership of the house and even reside in it till the time of his death. In case the borrower decides to sell off the property, he is entitled to do so but needs to repay the mortgage loan in full and final settlement. The loan amount is also remains the responsibility only of the borrower and does not get transferred to his or her heirs. The arrangement for receiving the loan can also be decided by the borrower, as he can decide if he wants to take the entire lump sum at one go or in monthly installments.
Taking reverse mortgages on one’s property ensures a regular cash flow into the household even after the regular source of income has stopped. Any person above the age of sixty two, who owns a property can easily apply for reverse mortgage and enjoy a financial support for lending agencies. This enables the loan taker to lead an independent life without having to ask for financial help from any relative or friend, and for a retired person this is a big boon indeed. Also a property that has been put up for reverse mortgage can be mortgaged even further provided the reverse mortgage was the first kind of loan taken on that property. The continued ownership of the property and facility to continue using the property for residential purposes is a major attraction of applying for reverse mortgages.
Everyone is entitled to a life of dignity and a retired person feels the need for such respect even more than others. Owning a house truly becomes an asset for such a person as in times of need he can actually use this asset in the most beneficial manner. He can ensure that he maintains his regular lifestyle that was there during his employed days, thanks to reverse mortgage facility. This form of providing senior citizens of America has truly helped to establish a society of senior citizens that encourages independence and self sufficiency among its members.
Antonio Redford is a legal expert. He gives advice to clients who are looking for expert counsel on reverse mortgage. For more queries about Reverse mortgages, American reverse mortgage, www.reverse-mortgage-seniors.com
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Down payment less than 3% of Sales Price Gifts are allowed Seller can credit up to 6% of sales price towards closing and prepaid costs. 100% Financing available No reserves required. FHA regulated closing costs.
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No minimum FICO score or credit score requirements. FHA will allow a home purchase 2 year after a Bankruptcy. FHA will allow a home purchase 3 years after a Foreclosure.
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FHA mortgage Loans insured by the Federal Housing Authority and are designed to help Florida homebuyers realize the dream of owning a Florida home. And they’re ideal for Florida first-time home buyers! Because the FHA insures these Florida home loan mortgages, Florida FHA mortgage lenders can offer Florida mortgage applicants a better deal and work with Florida applicants to qualify regardless of past credit problems, collections, past bankruptcy filings, or higher than average debt-to-income ratios
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During the FHA loan consolation and phone interview, your Florida FHA mortgage consultant will go through your application to determine your eligibility. If you don’t pre today for an FHA home loan we will make recommendations, and provide you with a road map to FHA loan approval. So as some point you will be approved for a home loan. The FHA loan interview is also a great chance to get acquainted with your Florida FHA loan officer, who plays an important role guiding your towards approval. . Good communication with your Florida FHA loan officer will increase your chances of get pre-approved for an FHA home loan in Florida.
FHA Loan Processing
We provide in-house processing for Florida FHA loan applicants so we know where you loan is throughout the entire approval process. with one phone call all Florida applicants will know how close they are towards obtaining the home of their dream. Processing an FHA home loan involves gathering documents to verify the information in your application. Documents may include (but are not limited to) W-2 forms, pay stubs, credit reports, and bank statements. After your phone interview, you’ll receive an FHA pre-qualification letter that includes a checklist of FHA documentation needed to submit your home loan request. This checklist will itemize all of the necessary items the Florida FHA mortgage lender will need to finalize and close your FHA loan request.
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The closing is the “end of the line” in obtaining an FHA mortgage. At the FHA mortgage closing, you will sign all of the required FHA mortgage documents. If it’s a new FHA mortgage loan, you’ll then take possession of your new home. If it’s an FHA refinance, you’ll start to enjoy the benefits of a low FHA mortgage rate, cash out, or both..
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With so much uncertainty and economic turmoil many are wondering: Is now a good time to buy or should I wait? Well that depends on your individual situation. If you are currently renting and are wanting to buy a home or are a first time homebuyer, (if you have not owned a home with in the previous three years then you are considered a first time homebuyer!) then it is a great time to buy. You may be saying but wait I do not think the Real Estate Market has bottomed and do not want to buy if I can wait and get a better deal. While it may be true that if you waited you could find a better deal, there are a few risks and presumptions that you are taking with this perspective.
1) You are attempting to predict the bottom and unless you research economic data all day and all night you will likely never accurately time the bottom, even most analysts can never accurately predict market bottoms. In other words you still probably will not get as good of a deal as you anticipated. You are better off beginning your search right now, finding something you really like and negotiating the most favorable terms.
2) If you wait until there is a “confirmed” bottom, there will be a lot more buyers and when you find a property that you like there is a much better chance that someone else will be eyeing that same property and you will not be able to negotiate as favorable terms.
If you act now you will have more room to negotiate due to the lack of other buyers who are waiting for the bottom. The best way to gain financially is to be a contrarian, to zig when others zag, if nobody is buying real estate and you are in the position to purchase a home buy one.
If you currently own a home and are paying a mortgage on it then you have a few options.
1) You can sell you home. However, in a buyer’s market there will be some downside with this option. The upside that I mentioned above for buyers will be the downside for you as a seller. If you can afford two mortgages it is not as big of a deal you can buy your new home and sit on your first home until the market turns and then sell it.
2) You can rent the property. If you do not want it to be a long term rental or investment property you should consider a lease to own option. This will attract a broader range of prospects; many people would like to purchase but just cannot qualify at the moment. With a lease to own option they are paying you a little bit of the down payment every month and will also have incentive to take care of the house as they are going to own it soon.
Buying a home should be viewed as that a home and perhaps a long term investment. Flipping properties does not work in a buyer’s market. There will be no short term gains, so begin your search now and find a house that you love, with a good Realtor you will have no problems negotiating terms that are in your favor and therefore get the best deal you can possible receive. If you have any questions or would like to speak to an experienced agent call Ron Thurber at 801-860-2049 or visit my website www.utahagent.org.
Ron Thurber with Keller Williams of Utah.
Utah Real Estate Agent with 11 years experience.
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As industry professionals, we often have an opportunity to sit in on conference calls on market trends and other things that affect reverse mortgages and the senior borrowers who get them. We were on one today that echoed something that we have been saying so it seems that it’s to a point where we should pass this information on to everyone.
Reverse Mortgages have gained in popularity but it seems that there has been an increasing amount of negative press lately and many senior borrowers have become hesitant to consider this financing tool available to borrowers age 62 and older. Is a Reverse Mortgage a safe loan and is now a good time to get one? Those are two questions we hear all the time and we say ABSOLUTELY to both!
seniors may purchase home with reverse mortgage With regard to the safety and all the negative press as of late, the reverse mortgage is probably the safest loan available to any borrower at any age even though it is available only to borrowers age 62 and above. The borrowers must obtain third-party counseling and should have their family members and/or trusted financial advisors involved in the entire process.
As is the case with anything in which people are involved, there is a possibility that someone, somewhere, will try to take advantage of others. However, every article I’ve read so far about abuse related to reverse mortgages, were centered around one of two things; either the person originating the reverse mortgage was selling another product to relieve the senior homeowner of their reverse mortgage funds, or someone felt the proceeds did not benefit the borrower enough for the fees they had to pay.
This is why we say that the family and financial advisors of the borrowers should also be involved in the process. Do not to obtain your reverse mortgage from anyone selling other products.
Also, some of the press is not deserved and misreported. One of the closing statements that was recently brought to me by the son of a reverse mortgage borrower who was livid because his father paid what he felt was way too much in fees to only get $37,000 in cash (actually, a line of credit).
At first I felt that he may be correct, reverse mortgage fees with the mortgage insurance premiums, etc can be high so I thought that $37,000 sounded very low and maybe not worth the investment until I saw that his father also paid off a $156,000 existing lien on his home that was a higher interest rate and he was making a mortgage payment of over $1,025.00 per month that he really could not afford.
This was another deal that the press could have had a field day with if they only reported that he paid $15,000 in total costs to receive $37,000 without taking into consideration that he paid off his existing debt and never had to make another payment for life and he now had a line of credit in the amount of $37,000 available to him for his use.
As to the second question regarding whether or not now is a good time. Now is an excellent time. Aside from the borrower’s age and the property location, the other factors that determine how much money borrowers can receive on their reverse mortgage are the property’s value and the interest rates. Property values have been declining for a while now and are projected to continue to go down at least through the end of 2008.
Now is the perfect opportunity to make the most of the property’s value before they fall to a lower level and the borrower does not qualify for as much money. And then there is the interest rate part of the equation. The fully indexed rate for a HUD HECM is below 5% which means that the borrower will receive the maximum amount of cash available under the program.
The bottom line is that now is the best possible time to get a reverse mortgage and borrowers and family members should take a good look at their options. If you have been holding back because of an article you read with some horror story, consider the circumstances and make sure you have the safeguards in place.
Don’t let uninformed or biased reporters or authors push you one way or the other, take a good look and see if it’s right for you and if it is, now is a great time to be a reverse mortgage borrower!
Michael G. Branson (CEO All Reverse Mortgage Company)is a Mortgage Broker who has over 31 years of mortgage banking experience. Toll Free (888) 801-2762
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There are over 8,000 mortgage products to choose from on the mortgage market. A walk down your local High Street will give you access to several of the most well-known providers – the big banks and building societies. However, these big providers will not have access to the 8,000 mortgage products; they will only offer a choice of a few of their own products. You could go into several of these financial institutions on your High Street and get a better choice, but still nowhere near the several thousand, and you’d probably be rather punch drunk from the experience!
You are better off looking for a mortgage broker. Mortgage brokers are professional individuals or companies who act as the intermediary between borrowers and lenders during mortgage transactions. Using the services of a mortgage broker will cut out all the leg work – or the Internet searches – as mortgage brokers have all the information you can access – and much more – at their finger tips. Getting your mortgage through a mortgage broker will give you a much better chance of getting the best mortgage deal for you.
Mortgages come in many different shapes and sizes these days. There are tracker mortgages, discounted mortgages, variable rates, fixed rates, adverse credit mortgages, sub-prime mortgages, CCJ mortgages. It can be very confusing! Mortgage brokers understand all the terms involved and will be able to explain it all to you. In fact, of course, they will cut through all the terms that are irrelevant to you and concentrate on getting a mortgage to suit your own personal circumstances.
What a mortgage broker will do for you is not something you want to spend time doing for yourself. Yes, you could trawl the Internet and find all the terms and all the different mortgage types and come to your own understanding, but why bother, when a mortgage broker can do it all for you?
Mortgage brokers need not cost you the earth. In fact, many offer their services to you for free, because they will get paid commission by the mortgage provider. But be careful of this, as you don’t want a mortgage broker to advise you for his own benefit. Ask your mortgage broker to explain all the fees that he is receiving at every step of the way. He is obliged by law to tell you what fees he is receiving and from whom.
Your mortgage broker will also tell you about all fees associated with your mortgage. These might include arrangement fees, booking fees, reservation fees. They are called different names, but you just need to know how much it’s going to cost you, and when. Your mortgage broker will not hide this from you for any lender’s product, because he should not mind which one you choose, so long as it is the right one for you.
So, don’t spend your time looking for mortgages or charging up and down your High Street looking for mortgage providers. Instead, spend your time talking to two or three mortgage brokers – and choose the best one of those to start your mortgage search.
Aaron Hill has a decade of experience in the financial services industry. His main area of expertise is mortgage advice and writes many articles on mortgages for finance industry, mortgage brokers and the general public alike.
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Usually clients are busy people who don’t want to spend their precious time searching for the best mortgage deal but still want the best deals available. They do need a qualified professional such as a mortgage broker they can trust to review the market and to look in detail at their circumstances. A mortgage broker can and provide them with full mortgage information, the most competitive and suitable loan product, especially in the atmosphere of today’s mortgage market which is becoming increasingly complex and not easy to contend with. A mortgage broker’s expertise can help clients to make substantial savings & secure the most competitive & appropriate loan product.
The majority of mortgage brokers are real experts & hardworking professionals, who help borrowers to get better mortgages and benefit.
Mortgage brokers can help clients who are looking to arrange a residential mortgage for their home, to buy and let / to finance an investment, self-employed clients or clients who have a bad credit history. They act as the intermediary between the banks and the consumers during mortgage transactions.
A good mortgage broker will be able to advise clients as to how much they can borrow, how much their mortgage could cost & also how much could be saved by the clients. The mortgage broker will provide clients with the various tools necessary to make educated, intelligent decisions.
Mortgage brokers will also help clients fill in the application form, they will deal with the lender on clients’ behalf and, should clients need to settle really quickly, the mortgage broker can use his or her best efforts to push the deal through. The mortgage broker can also prepare individual repayment plan for clients which enable them to budget better.
Unlike a lot of banking institutions, which usually ask potential clients only predetermined questions and then, depending upon clients’ answers, provide them with information about their own products ( as opposed to a competitor’s mortgage product that may better suit these clients) a mortgage broker takes a completely different approach – the mortgage broker will search the whole market and will have access to thousands of deals.
Different mortgage brokers have different working styles but many of them are time-flexible and can visit clients in the evening or on weekends. Clients can also contact mortgage brokers or visit them when it suits them best. Banks usually do not have such flexibility.
If clients have atypical circumstances, bad credit or no credit, some other credit problems, bankruptcies or foreclosures, they will be able to really benefit from the advice of an expert who has a deep understanding of the mortgage market & deals with variety of lenders, some of whom may be able to assist. Since the recent global credit crunch (which was primarily brought about by irresponsible sub-prime lending in the United States, lenders in the “bad credit” market have exited as they have not been able to generate funding for this high risk area of lending.
If on the other hand you simply do not have your tax returns in order then your mortgage broker will access “LoDoc” funding which is still available through a number of lenders. The lending ratios for LoDoc have however been reduced, with most lenders only lending to 60% of the value of the security offered.
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A mortgage broker offers loan products of various lenders. Essentially, a mortgage broker is a loan provider who serves as a contact between borrowers and lenders.
A mortgage broker will learn the needs of the borrower and start researching the market for the best loan deal from lenders offering that particular type of mortgage loan. Mortgage brokers usually work with numerous lenders, attempting to match the right lender with each individual client – be you a first home buyer, upgrading to a new home or looking to refinance an existing home or investment loan – it is worthwhile to engage a mortgage broker.
He or she will invariable advise borrowers on ways to obtain better loan rates. Brokers answer questions and assist borrowers in understanding both the loan application process and the specific loan details, terms and conditions as well.
A mortgage broker usually works within a firm but can operate independently.
Most people use mortgage brokers to get access to a greater range of mortgage options, for better service and for the mortgage broker’s ability to negotiate with lenders. A mortgage broker offers loans from a panel of financial institutions, including banks and non-banks. Using a mortgage broker is now an essential part of scouring the market for the prefect home loan. They originate the loan while the mortgage lenders’ actually fund the credit.
Finding the right home loan can be very stressful for borrowers, this is one of the reasons why mortgage brokers are good value, as they do the research for you, deal with the banks on your behalf and provide assistance in completing some of the paper work that is involved in arranging a new mortgage.
Some of their main roles include; taking the application, performing a financial and credit evaluation, produces documents and closes the agreement.
Mortgage brokers are one of the largest distributions of different kinds of mortgage products.
The biggest benefit gained from using a mortgage broker is their access to loans. A broker can save a borrower thousands of dollars if they’re able to deliver the right home loan at the lower cost possible.
By searching for loans through a broker, a borrower receives information on cost and accessibility of credit from several lenders in a solo enquiry. Borrowers who are unfamiliar with the mortgage industry, may decrease the cost of learning about the availability of different mortgage products, terms and lenders through using a broker.
It is the liability of the mortgage broker to know as many details regarding mortgages and loans to inform their clients on what will be the right choice for them.
If you are not happy with your current loan arrangement or at any time through the life of your loan, you are able to contact your mortgage broker to determine if this is still the best loan for you. Mortgage brokers will are able to look into your current situation at any time and decide if there is a better option for you.
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