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Mortgage Secrets: 6 Steps To The Lowest Rate and Closing Costs…Guaranteed

Mortgage Secrets: 6 Steps To The Lowest Rate and Closing Costs…Guaranteed

Walt Vieira a 12 year mortgage veteran and responsible for over 0 million in loan volume takes you inside and reveals to you the secrets so many loan officers don’t want you to know. He will show you a very simple and easy to understand method just how you can have the upper hand every time. This system will save you tens of thousands in interest and needless closing costs. This simple 6 step system will work whether you are loo

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Q&A: How should I go about purchasing my gram’s house? Mortgage? Home Equity? FHA? It is in an estate of my dad.?

Question by crave132: How should I go about purchasing my gram’s house? Mortgage? Home Equity? FHA? It is in an estate of my dad.?
Ok so here is the situation. My gram died over a year ago and her house has been sitting in an estate that my dad and his 3 siblings are in charge of. He has been holding up the estate so I can get the house, but I have to save up money first. I have the money saved up now, just need to see about what my best method is for getting the house? Regular mortgage rates at local banks are 5% for 30 years and up. The house was appraised at 72000 and I am getting it for 60000, 15000 for my dad and each of his 3 sibling divided equally. My question is should I get the house deeded to me for $ 1 to avoid having to pay all the closing costs and do it as a home equity loan? Is there somewhere better to get a mortgage than a local bank? None of the big banks will do FHA/government loans. Please tell me the best way to go about getting the house in my name, and getting my aunts and uncles their money.
I have already been qualified for the loan, but if I do a home equity I wouldnt have to pay closing costs. Yes i know what a home equity loan is, I used to work as a credit analyst at a bank. There is no money owed on the house, and if it were in my name I would have all the equity to take out. The only reason I need money is because my aunts and uncles want their share for the house, and they want it soon. I have 5000 saved up, which is 5% down plus closing costs. I just want to know if there are any other loopholes besides having the house deeded to me for $ 1, which is not fraud and is legal. Thanks for the answers so far, but you havent told me anything I dont already know.

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Answer by Greg K
There are a number of ways to do this, but it’s all about the level of trust between the parties.

First off, the purchaser needs to be someone that can get a loan. If that is you, fine, but if not, you need to figure out who can meet the lenders requirements. What mortgage products are available to you are predicated on the creditworthiness of the borrower. A mortgage broker may be of real assistance to you in figuring this out.

Closing costs vary with the mortgage product. You will need to figure out the nuances of closing costs as you decide your mortgage.

Finally there is the question of title. Assuming you purchase the house, the title is now in your name. It sounds like the house is already in a trust for the estate. Transferring the beneficiary name on the trust may be the easiest thing to do. And it doesn’t involve much money at all.

Nothing needs to change until you sell the house. If the trust owns the house, the trust gets the money. You need to look at the trust documents to understand what happens to the money in the trust.

Good Luck

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Newsweek Magazine (February 16, 2009) … Lenders Add Bigger Fannie, Freddie Fee – Thanks to Payroll Tax Cut (January 15, 2012) …


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The increase in the mortgage fee is to pay for the roughly billion package the Senate approved last month to extend a 2 percentage point payroll tax cut for another two months. About 160 million people benefit from that tax

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Lenders are already adding an increase in fees on mortgages backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration to new loans – a hike that will pay for the extension of the payroll tax cut.

The fee increase of 0.1 of a percentage point is to be added to all loans that Fannie and Freddie buy from April 1 to Oct. 1, 2021.

But lenders are already adding the increased fee to loan price structuring since it can take months to close a loan and deliver it to the two mortgage-financing companies taken over by the U.S. government three years ago.

The increase in the mortgage fee is to pay for the roughly billion package the Senate approved last month to extend a 2 percentage point payroll tax cut for another two months. About 160 million people benefit from that tax cut.

But the mortgage fee increase is good for the life of new mortgages and refinancing – about 90 percent of U.S. mortgages are financed or backed by the government-sponsored companies. Existing mortgages are not affected.

“Think of it as a back-door tax increase,” writes Peter G. Miller, a syndicated real estate writer and operator of OurBroker.com. “While the public was watching the payroll debate in Washington, Congress was actually increasing the cost to finance or refinance a home.”

The Fannie/Freddie fee would rise about 0.1 percent to an average of 0.3 percentage point. It would amount to about a month more on a 0,000 mortgage ­– that’s 0 a year.

Congress has also directed the FHA to increase its annual mortgage insurance premium by .10 percent – from 1.15 percent to 1.25 percent for most borrowers.

Homeowners would have the fee increases worked into their mortgage.

The mortgage providers would then send that additional revenue to the U.S. Treasury, which already extends an open credit line to Fannie and Freddie to cover quarterly losses. That bailout tab is expected to reach 0 billion this year.
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WI FHA Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Information

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An FHA loan is a government backed loan the allows a client to get into a property with as little as 3 percent money down. Find out what factors affect FHA loan qualification, including income and credit history, withhelp from a financial specialist in this free video on home loans and money management. Expert: Matthew McKillen Contact: www.innovativefg.com Bio: Matthew McKillen has more than 21 years of industry experience in arranging loans for his clients. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

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Subprime Crisis No Barrier to Affordable Housing


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The subprime mortgage crisis is an ongoing financial crisis characterized by contracted liquidity in global credit markets and banking systems triggered by the failure of mortgage companies, investment firms and government sponsored enterprises which had invested heavily in subprime mortgages. The crisis, which has roots in the closing years of the 20th century but has become more apparent throughout 2007 and 2008, has passed through various stages exposing pervasive weaknesses in the global financial system and regulatory framework.

The crisis began with the bursting of the United States housing bubble[1][2] and high default rates on "subprime" and adjustable rate mortgages (ARM), beginning in approximately 2005–2006. For a number of years prior to that, declining lending standards, an increase in loan incentives such as easy initial terms, and a long-term trend of rising housing prices had encouraged borrowers to assume difficult mortgages in the belief they would be able to quickly refinance at more favorable terms. However, once interest rates began to rise and housing prices started to drop moderately in 2006–2007 in many parts of the U.S., refinancing became more difficult.
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American Mailboxes .. Hope Street .. Foreclosure limbo: Staying without paying (June 09, 2011) …..


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Some 4.2 million mortgage borrowers are either seriously delinquent or have had their cases referred to lawyers to pursue foreclosure auctions, according to LPS Applied Analytics. Of those, two-thirds have made no payments at all for at least a year, and nearly one-third have gone more than two years.

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Charles and Jill Segal have not made a mortgage payment in nearly five years — but they continue to live in their five-bedroom West Palm Beach, Fla. home.

Lynn, from St. Petersburg, Fla., has been living without paying for three years.

In Thousand Oaks, Calif., an actor has missed 30 payments, and still, he has not lost his home.

They’re not alone.

Some 4.2 million mortgage borrowers are either seriously delinquent or have had their cases referred to lawyers to pursue foreclosure auctions, according to LPS Applied Analytics. Of those, two-thirds have made no payments at all for at least a year, and nearly one-third have gone more than two years.

These cases can go on and on. Nationwide, it takes an average of 565 days to foreclose on borrowers in default from their first missed payments to the final auction. In New York, the average is 800 days and in Florida, where the "robo-signing" issue is particularly combative, it’s 807.

If they want to fight evictions hard, borrowers can remain in their homes even longer while their cases are being worked through.

The Segals have been doing that — in court. They bought their home in 2003 with an adjustable rate mortgage. After a few years, their monthly payments tripled to ,000, just as their home-inspection business was cratering.

The Segals want the bank to modify the mortgage so payments are affordable, and they think the court will agree that their lender put them into a toxic loan.

"The evidence will show that we were defrauded," said Jill Segal.

If they lose, of course, they’ll finally have to leave. And, unfortunately, more than 50 months of missed mortgage payments hasn’t translated into big savings.

"It’s very hard to save," said Jill Segal. "Our company’s billing is 90% off and my husband is only working about four days a week."

Lynn, who didn’t want her last name used, purchased a two-bedroom on Tampa Bay in 1998 for 5,000.

As the waterfront property’s value skyrocketed, eventually reaching 0,000, she refinanced twice (once to expand a business), and took out a second mortgage. She now owes more than 0,000 on the home, which is worth only 5,000.

Living in this foreclosure limbo is "Hell," Lynn said. "I feel like I’m locked in a box. I work for a financial organization and if this came out, it could cost me my job."

She’s still hoping to negotiate the loan. In the meantime, small things bother her. "A couple years ago, I lost my dog and I can’t decide on getting a new one," she said. If she has to move, she can’t be sure she’ll go somewhere that allows pets.

The actor from Thousand Oaks, Calif. began having problems during the screenwriters’ strike in late 2007, followed by a threat of a strike by the Screen Actors Guild.

He’s working with his lender toward a mortgage modification, submitting page after page of documents, which the bank has often misplaced or waited so long to examine them that they had grown too old to use.

His ideal outcome is get the loan modified and get all his late fees waived. He feels entitled to that because the bank advised him to stopped paying in the first place to qualify for one of the government’s foreclosure programs. Before that, he had missed only one payment.

Meanwhile, he has cobbled together some income streams — small acting parts, teaching acting classes and even handyman work.

"In a way, I feel like I’m lucky because I haven’t had to pay any ‘rent’ for 30 months," he said.

But he feels like he’s always under a cloud. "I haven’t slept in three years," he said. "It’s terrifying. I have to have the ultimate poker face in front of my kids."

Ruben Martinez, a Staten Island, N.Y., man trapped in a particularly bad adjustable rate mortgage, stopped paying more than three years ago. His attorney, Robert Brown, has managed to stave off one foreclosure.

Martinez, still struggling to find work, has little in savings despite the missed payments. He’s earning some income as a pastor and consulting for a non-profit family counseling organization.

"There’s pressure on me every day," he said. "I have a wife, three daughters and two grandchildren. Where are we going to live?"
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Closing Costs ? 4 Tips to Save Money the Next Time You Get a Mortgage

Did you ever wonder if the closing costs your mortgage broker proposes can be lowered?  Whether you have or not, this article will provide you with 4 ways easy to minimize your closing costs.

   1. Examine your Good Faith Estimate and make sure you understand what each fee is for. Seems straightforward but many people do not do it. Sometimes, they do it long after the fact. You must do it before. Preferably a few days before, not minutes before.

You should always get your closing costs estimates on the Good Faith Estimate form.  It’s a standardized way of showing you what fees you are going to be charged.  Since it’s standardized, you can easily compare one mortgage brokerage’s closing costs estimates with those of another.  

The closing costs are finalized on HUD-1, a form that you should have in your hands and inspect (compare it against the Good Faith Estimate form) several days before the closing.  

   2. Now that you understand what all the fees are for, make sure you don’t have there fees that you’ve already paid and are not given credit for that. Maybe you paid the appraisal fee upfront.  This fee is part of your closing costs and it should be on the Good Faith Estimate as having been already paid if you did, indeed, already paid it.

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   3. Mortgage brokers (lenders too) have a number of third parties they have to work with to make a mortgage loan happen.  Some, like title companies, they choose.  Others, like the city and county you chose when you chose your home.   Though there’s nothing you can do about the county or city fees, it doesn’t mean you have to pay the other fees.  For instance, if you have a title company that is reliable and willing to charge you less, work with that company.

   4. ‘Lender’s Inspection Fee,’ ‘Commitment Fee’ and other such fees. Some exist only so that the mortgage broker or lender makes more money. Others exist so they don’t waste time with tire kickers. Make sure all such fees are absent or waived if there’s a closing.

Until May 2011, mortgage brokers and lenders are still allowed to charge you a yield-spread premium.  That’s the extra fee they get from the bank (lender) if they get you into a mortgage with a higher interest rate than the ‘wholesale’ rate you qualify for.  Mortgage brokers (unlike banks) have to report this extra fee if they get it.  Make sure to look for it.
The only time you should be paying extra is if the mortgage broker is going to use the fee to lower your interest rate (buy down the rate) or to pay your closing costs with it.

Refinance closing costs are lower than the closing costs for a first mortgage. They still run into the thousands, you can still overpay by a few hundreds. Make sure you understand what you’re paying and that the HUD1 form and the Good Faith Estimate form are in agreement.

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Get an Estimate on Saving with a Mortgage Refinance Calculator

Put away the paper and pencil. Stop racking your brain over how much you could save on your home loan and let your computer do the work for you through a mortgage refinance calculator. Here is how to get the answers to all of your questions.

Is Refinancing Right for You?

A mortgage refinance loan calculator can help you find out how much you might save plus give you helpful insights on making sense of all the numbers. Simply enter in a few figures, such as the amount of your mortgage, your home appraisal value, mortgage term, and income tax rate, and let the mortgage refinance calculator go to work. In just seconds, you’ll have an estimate that can help you make a confident informed decision regarding the refinancing of your home loan.

What It All Means

Many homeowners can feel overwhelmed by all the numbers and confusing real estate terms. Fortunately, a good mortgage refinance calculator can simplify things. You’ll learn what the new interest rate would be if you refinanced today as well as other helpful details such as your monthly savings in regards to principal and interest and PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance), if applicable. You can even use the mortgage refinance loan calculator to see what your monthly PMI payment would be, as well as how much goes toward the principal and how much you pay in interest under the refinancing terms. Using a refinance calculator is the ideal way to compare the numbers on your current mortgage versus an estimate for refinancing under a new rate.

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Important Points to Keep in Mind

At its core, a mortgage refinance calculator is a tool, designed to help you crunch the numbers and give you the knowledge to make an informed decision on refinancing. Some of the numbers may depend on current home loan interest rates on that day due to daily interest rate fluctuations. Remember, a mortgage refinance loan calculator cannot evaluate all the factors that enter into determining the loan that might be best for you. That’s why it’s important to speak with a home loan advisor about your specific needs and qualifications before you make a final decision. Having the advice of a professional can help you better understand what options are available to you should you decide to move forward with a refinance. However, using an online mortgage refinance calculator is a great first step to a loan that could save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars. Most are free to try and only take a minute to download before you are on your way to becoming a more informed borrower.

Using an Online Mortgage Loan Calculator?.”How Much Home Can I afford?”

Many sites offer a variety of mortgage loan calculators for use by web surfers and visitors.  There are monthly payment calculators, rent versus buy calculators, refinance calculators and on and on.  I am taking aim in this series of articles to help you to use these calculators in a more effective way. Today we are going to examine the most widely used calculator, How Much Home Can I Afford Mortgage Calculator.  More specifically, we are going to break down how to accurately estimate the qualifying income the mortgage company will consider when you apply so that you can enter that into a mortgage calculator. 

The design of this Calculator is to allow you to put in some basic income figures and have the calculator determine what payment your income will support and determine what loan amount that translates to and, by adding a down payment to that figure ….how much home you can afford.

The pathway to answers using this calculator is full of many pot holes. Let us start with the first – income determination.  In my two decades of loan origination I have found that there is often a huge difference in what a potential borrower thinks they make versus what an underwriter is going to allow for qualifying.  These differences are largest among the self employed crowd predictably. 

If you are self employed and file a schedule C: 

Your qualifying income is going to be determined by taking your verified schedule C gross income and subtracting all expenses (not including depreciation or depletion – both are paper losses) for the last two years and averaging that into a monthly amount.   There is an exception to the 24 month average rule and it is not good…. The exception is if your income is lower in the most recent year versus the previous year it is being averaged with, the lower year will be taken on its own and averaged over 12 months.  An explanation for the decrease will be required most likely and if it is significant, evidence that the “bleeding has stopped” might be required as well.  

Example: 

2009      Gross Self Employment Income 0,000 – ,000 of expenses (not including depreciation) is ,000 

2010      Gross Self Employment Income ,000 – ,000 of expenses (not including depreciation) is ,000 net, taxable and qualifying income 

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Ordinarily underwriting would take the 80,000 and the 70,000 net figures and average them. In this case, since the 70,000 is the more current figure 2010, it will also be the qualifying income figure.   

If you are Self Employed and Own a Corporation. 

Whether you are a C Corp or an S Corp, the business tax returns will be required and the corporation will need to be profitable. A loss (not including depreciation) will bring doubt as to whether or not the company can sustain the salary income you might be deriving from it.  S Corp losses and gains will appear on your personal tax returns but the corporate returns will still be required and should be reviewed as you work with a mortgage calculator. 

If you are W-2 Employee Earning Bonus or Commission or Overtime Income. 

You should first determine your base income. This would be your regular hourly rate x 40 hours a week or your regular monthly salary if that applies. Perhaps you are a nurse and work three 12 hour shifts in which case your base income would be your regular hourly rate x 36 hours. Do not use the over time rate in this case for calculating your base income.  In summary your base income is going to be established by using your current regular hourly rate or salary figure…no overtime, stipends, bonuses etc. Raises can be taken into consideration immediately when it concerns base income but will need to be evidenced with a paystub prior to closing.   

Underwriting will determine your qualifying overtime using a verification of employment but you can simply take your last 24 months of overtime and average it to a monthly figure. Keep in mind that you employer is going to have to verify that the overtime is likely to continue in order to use it and if the overtime is declining it may not be considered. If you have doubts don’t include it in your mortgage calculator.  

Please also keep in mind that it is common to claim unreimbursed expenses when you file your taxes. Many people do not even understand these expenses or where they are claimed.  If you itemize expenses on your personal Federal Tax  returns, it is possible that you are claiming expenses for your job that are not reimbursed by your employer. In the industry we call these 2106 expenses because they are broken out on form 2106 but listed in total on your Schedule A.  Typically these expenses will be averaged over 24 months and subtracted from the average gross income figure base pay plus overtime.

The following are general rules in determining income for the online Mortgage Calculator. 

Rule One: Monthly Base Income equals:

Current Salary (even if recent raise) evidenced by a recent pay stub.
Regular Hourly Rate x up to 40 hours a week. 

Rule Two: Bonus, Commission, Overtime  equals:

24 month average if increasing or steady.
Must subtract all unreimbursed job expenses claimed on tax returns 

Rule Three: Self Employed Income equals:

Sole Proprietor – Gross Income minus expenses (excluding depreciation and depletion) for the past two years evidenced by tax returns.  Must have a minimum of two years in business to count.
Corporate Owner – Salary or wage income plus review of two years of Corporate returns indicating the company’s ability to continue paying your income. Business losses (excluding depreciation) indicate that the company may be unable to sustain your income and underwriting will take this into consideration. 

Rule Four: Second Jobs

Must demonstrate a minimum of two years history of holding two jobs continuously in order to have this income accepted.
Income will be averaged over 24 months.      

For questions or comments on this article or about using a Mortgage Calculator or Mortgage Qualifying Calculator please feel welcome to contact us  hugh@themortgagecity.com