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usda: USDA Rural Guaranteed Loan Program offers real estate loans to 102% loan to value for purchases - 10/06/08 04:00 PM
100% financing has become harder to find but there are still a few options available in Oregon. One is, of course, Federal VA but this is open only to veterans and active duty military personnel. A fantastic opportunity to purchase a home for someone that qualifies.
Next would be a FHA loan with some sort of down payment assistance program, of which the only ones currently available are SHOP, HAP and PAL. Unfortunately, HAP and PAL are currently out of money according to recent reports. (Please see previous postings for what these are.)
That brings me to the USDA Rural Guaranteed … (12 comments)
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usda: Blogging, real estate loans, mortgage consultant, and me - 08/24/08 12:25 PM
I have seen these type of posts before but I guess I need to add mine to the batch. I just hit two months with Active Rain and passed 33,000 points. So, what does that mean? So far, it has meant getting calls from California about USDA rural programs in Oregon (apparently there aren't a lot of rural areas in San Francisco). It has meant getting a call about the FHA Hope program from New Hampshire which I referred to someone in that area. It has meant getting a call about the Springfield Farmers' Market because I was the one that … (5 comments)
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usda: Rural Loan Programs for Lane County, 100% financing available - 08/07/08 03:52 PM
There are still ways to buy a home with no money down, but it is getting harder to do all of the time. USDA Rural Development is one of them. VA is also 100% real estate purchase financing. Today I want to touch base on the USDA product. We refer to it as FmHA, or a Farm Home instead of FHA, Federal Housing. "USDA provides homeownership opportunities to rural Americans, as well as programs for home renovation and repair. USDA also makes financing available to elderly, disabled, or low-income rural residents of multi-unit housing buildings to ensure they are able to … (4 comments)
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usda: Licensed Oregon Mortgage Brokers - 07/08/08 12:11 PM
In January of 2007, there were more than 13,000 licensed mortgage loan originators in Oregon. As of the Independence Day holiday, that number was down to 6,985 with less than half of them living in Oregon. It appears that the wheat is being separated from the chaff.
I have been working in the mortgage industry before there was a license requirement. I supported the licensing requirement for mortgage originators, expecting it to make our industry more responsive and responsible. In some ways it has, but nothing the way a downturn in the market has.
If you have lost your loan officer, I would … (10 comments)
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usda: Oil, markets and pricing - 07/01/08 12:38 PM
The big news in mortgage pricing is oil. Again today, oil topped $143 a barrel and this means that the price of almost everything goes up. When the prices go up, that means inflation. When you have inflation, that means that mortgage rates, that hate inflation, go up.
What can be done about it? The best thing to help inflation would be to lower the price of oil. Oil is priced in dollars, so a weak dollar means higher priced oil. Oil has doubled in price since the Fed started lowering the discount rate and the dollar became weaker agains the … (0 comments)
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