Anyone you know struggling with mortgage payments due to unemployment? Forbearance Terms Eased for Freddie’s Borrowers Freddie Mac gave unemployed homeowners who are struggling to pay mortgages owned or guaranteed by the company a break on Friday when it eased its temporary forbearance restrictions. Effective February 1, Freddie Mac servicers will no longer need prior approval [...]
Read moreFannie Mae Homepath Mortgage Loans…NO Appraisal, NO MI and NO Condo Certification!
Fannie Mae HomePath Mortgage Loans… NO Appraisal, NO MI and NO Condo Certification! Looking for a fix up property… with mortgage financing readily available? You believe you are either a handy person when it comes to home fix up projects or maybe you know someone who is handy. Shopping for foreclosed homes seems like a [...]
Read moreFannie Mae and Freddie Make Mac Move to NO Loan to Value Limit Loans on HARP
The Federal Housing Finance Agency, with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has announced a series of changes to the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP). This program was designed to be able to help people who were in a position of negative equity. Now, it someone is upside down on their home, there will be no [...]
Read moreDo I Need to be Late My Mortgage to Qualify for a Short Sale? – Don’t Take Yes for an Answer
I have a lot of people call me to get pre-qualified to purchase a home using FHA financing after a short sale. Early on, not a lot of these scenarios panned out but these days, more and more of them do. When they don’t, the number one reason is because they took bad advice from [...]
Read moreWhat are “extenuating circumstances”?
Many people trying to buy a home after a short sale find it difficult to navigate through loan programs that they may be eligible for and various waiting periods that may be applicable. If late payments occur, most people are told that the waiting period for buying a home after a short sale is 3 [...]
Read moreConventional Loan Pricing Scheduled to Hike Rates in Late Spring
As a follow up to Fannie Mae’s recent guideline changes, they will now be taking steps to make conventional loans more expensive across the board. A few years back, Fannie Mae instituted an aggressive round of Loan Level Pricing Adjustments (LLPA’s) and an Adverse Market Delivery Charge (AMDC) to add market risk into their loan pricing. AMDC’s [...]
Read moreFannie Mae Guideline Changes – Gifts, 97% Financing and Mortgage Insurance
There has been some recent excitement about Fannie Mae (FNMA) changing her guidelines on down payments and allowing gift funds as an acceptable form of down payment in lieu of a borrower’s own funds. Before we all get excited about FNMA getting a little FHA in her with respect to gift funds, we need to [...]
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January 11, 2012




