loan approval: When Should You Get Pre-Approved For A Purchase Loan?
- 10/25/09 03:13 AM
This one kind of goes along with "When Can We Close?" from a couple of years ago and another "How Long Does It Take To Close Today?" from a few weeks ago. It is further inspired by feedback from many agents and clients over the last many years. First it is important to understand the difference between a pre-approval, an approval and a clear-to-close. That explanation is given here at "Pre-Approval, Approval, Conditional, Cleared - What the ____?!" Let me augment that by saying you, the home buyer, have a lot of power over how certain your pre-approval is. Pre-approvals are … (6 comments)
loan approval: Pre-Approval, Approval, Conditional, Cleared - What the ____?!
- 10/24/09 06:49 AM
Ancient Mortgage Proverb: No deal is ever 100% certain until the loan is completely paid off. There exists a chasm in communication, familiarity and point of view between agents and loan officers. Sometimes we try to act like it does not exist and we really wish it was not so. I know this chasm exists, just as you do for many reasons, because I have had real estate agents - very good agents - try to convert to loan officer at my companies and I have seen this chasm immediately appear. Sales are fairly and generally black and white, go or … (67 comments)
loan approval: How Do "Approved" Loans Get Denied?
- 09/23/08 02:45 PM
It happens. And if you don't have a very firm grasp of the onion like layers of the loan process it is very difficult to understand why. Therefore to begin let's look at the steps in the process of a loan: 1. Loan Officer accepts an application from the borrower. In the case of a local broker the LO is the person who will be your liaison for the duration of your file. For the national behemoths the LO is more like an operator who just accepts your order. 2. Your credit history is examined and a preliminary credit decision is … (7 comments)
This one kind of goes along with "When Can We Close?" from a couple of years ago and another "How Long Does It Take To Close Today?" from a few weeks ago. It is further inspired by feedback from many agents and clients over the last many years.
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