My realtor said that there is a excellent chance buyers for my house will get an FHA loan. I have heard that these loans can take considerably longer than conventional loans and the inspections are nit-picky and hard to pass. But, she also said that things aren’t as terrible as they were in the past. [...]

I have already listed my home with a realtor so please NO responses indicating I should. We are now going to try to sell our home ourselves. I have already looked at FSBO.com as well as a few other sites. The legal aspect seems confusing so I reckon we will hire a [...]

I generally know that I would try to find a bank or lending place that will offer me a lower rate than I currently have, but was wondering how to make sure the new terms are to my advantage. For example, my realtor helped me go over my mortgage materials originally and do not want [...]

First some background:
A home we are looking at buying apraised for 0K a year and a half ago. It has sat empty in a high tax area since then, and friends are offering it to us for 0K. I’ve done the research with realtor friends and everyone agrees its a excellent deal. [...]

We finally found a property that we like, but it turned out to be a detached condo. Our bank gave us a fantastic quote on the mortgage rate that we chose to lock, and two weeks before the closing and approval of the loan we were told that the property was incorrect and the [...]

Due to Illness we need to sell our home. We are not going thru a Realtor. But in order to pay off the Mortgage and Home Equity Loan, which will clear the title, we need to sell. But in order to sell, we need a clear title. How does this work? How long do we [...]

I am in the process of buying a house. Yet I am really confused as to how this realtor (representing me as a buyer) gets paid. My mortgage company quotes me – as the buyer – for closing costs (basically -6k), and I know these costs as due at the time of closing. [...]

My husband and I are scheduled to close on our first home on March 28th, so five days away. It is a 1,941 square foot home in Fort Worth, Texas. We were approved for a 15-year FHA loan at a 5.5% fixed interest rate. The builder had the house listed at 3,990 [...]

Thinking about buying your aboriginal home? There’s a lot of excellent reasons to do so right now – arrangement prices, low mortgage absorption rates and that $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit. But for the first-time homebuyer, it can be intimidating.
To activate with, it’s an clumsily huge investment – potentially, the largest you’ll ever accomplish – [...]

I am so sick of renting. How much money (Everything including, Closing Cost, Down Payment, EVERYTHING) would you guestimate I would need to get a house with an FHA loan. The price range I would be looking is around ,000 dollars. And also, do I have to pay the Realtor? I really don’t know anything [...]