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Attention New York Attorneys: FHA Mortgages are Not the Enemy
Like anyone else, I love it when I get a cash offer on one of my listings. That is rare, but it is also nice when we get an offer that has terms including a healthy 20-30% or larger down payment. That doesn't happen all the time either. What is keeping the lights on in Westchester real estate is the FHA mortgage, which was unheard of 5 years ago, but is now more common than any other program for starter and medium homes. 
The minimum down payment on an FHA loan is 3.5%. For the math-challenged, that means the buyer will be financing 96.5% of their purchase. In a county where FHA loans were once as rare as hens' teeth, this causes some consternation among some attorneys who have grown accustomed to picking the low hanging fruit for decades. I always shake my head when we have a perfectly good offer torpedoed by the seller's attorney simply because they have never closed an FHA loan. Here are some of the stupid things these lawyers say:
How can these people qualify for a loan if they are only putting 3.5% down?  I can't let us get tied up under contract with buyers ... more

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