Questions & Attention to Detail Make For Successful Mortgage Closings
The mortgage process can be the part time job the potential home buyer did not anticipate. The gathering of detailed financial information, questionnaires and data can seem overwhelming when it is not your primary job. There is a good reason for all that information in the mortgage process as Gene Mundt so aptly shares. In Rhode Island real estate, condos are on the rebound but you need to know this questionnaire information way before you buy. Read and understand all that is in the homeowner docs and accompanying detail. Know the home you are buying.
I like his example on condo buying because there are many hidden factors not only your mortgage officer can find out but your real estate agent needs to know. Remember they are both working for YOU!
Questions and Attention to Detail
Make for Successful Mortgage Closings
"It's the little details that are vital.Little things make big things happen" ... John WoodenAs of late, I've been blessed with some very intelligent and engaged Mortgage clients. From our very first communication, each of these clients has been completely immersed in the details of their mortgage process and becoming thoroughly educated about it. They've questioned me about every step of their process. Why this? Why that? And it has been welcomed ...
One of my clients, after receiving his Appraisal Report, actually took the time to read the full Report in its entirety. He asked me detailed questions about the terminology used within the Report, specifically terminology that pertained to his financing. Every question he asked was well thought out. I was blown away by it.
Another of my Buyers wanted to know why I cared so much about the background and details of the Condominium Association he was buying in. He also wanted to know why I needed a Condominium Association Questionnaire completed and why I examined the Questionnaire so thoroughly upon receiving it.
As I explained that his interests in his Condominium Unit, his finances could be impacted by the numbers and info reported on that Questionnaire ... I virtually saw the recognition of that importance cross his face.
The Questionnaire had revealed a very important fact. One entity owned and represented 40% of the payments made into the Condominium Association's monthly budget. All my pesky "rules of Lending", my many questions to his agent, my attention to the details surrounding this Association ... they all seemed to make a bit more sense to him after I pointed out that one very important fact to him.
What was so important about that fact revealed within the Questionnaire??
If the entity responsible for 40% of the Condominium Dues stopped or failed to make payment of their Dues, the remaining 60% ownership would be asked to make up the difference. The remaining 60% (of which he'd be a part) would then become responsible for a full 100% of the Association's budget.
Click! That's where and when the light came on for my young Condo Buyer. He now fully understood that this newly uncovered "detail" .... one that up until now he deemed "pesky" ... could directly impact HIS wallet, both short term and long.
My point for relating the above stories?
I know that the Mortgage Process can seem long and tedious. I understand it can seem filled with too many questions, too many requests for documents and copies, and too many nagging details.
But while I understand the frustrations that accompany all the above, you need to understand: Many of today's Underwriting and Mortgage Lending rules and requirements are based upon or come as the result of past transactions and experiences. And so often (see my young Buyer), there is a valid and important reason as to why I'm asking you (or others) to comply with info or documentation.
Questions and Attention to Detail Make For Successful Chicagoland Mortgage Closings ... I say, should you not understand something I'm saying or don't understand why I'm making a request ... ask questions, just as my clients above did. Asking questions will help you understand the benefits and protections that will come your way when seeing to those details and through fulfilling the requests ...
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Gene MundtRegional Manager - Mortgage Lender
American Portfolio Mortgage Corp.
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Gene Mundt, Mortgage Lender, a Lender with 36 years of mortgage experience, will offer you exemplary mortgage service and advice when seeking: Conventional, FHA, VA, Jumbo, USDA, and Portfolio Loans in Chicago and the greater Chicagoland region, including: The Lincoln-Way Area, Will County, (New Lenox, Frankfort, Mokena, Manhattan, Joliet, Shorewood, Crest Hill, Plainfield, Bolingbrook, Romeoville, Naperville, etc.), DuPage County, the City of Chicago, Cook County, and elsewhere within IL. Gene Mundt, Mortgage Lender can be contacted at: 815.524.2280 or via his email: gmundt@goapmc.com.
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