by Athena Paquette | Apr 9, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
If you have less than 20% down, you have to pay PMI. FALSE. There are 2 ways to avoid PMI. One is to do what we called tandem financing or a “piggyback loan.” The first bigger loan is 80% of the price of the home, as if you have 20% down. Then we give you a second...
by Athena Paquette | Mar 12, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
I love helping people find solutions! I had a young man come in to get qualified for a mortgage because he was about to inherit a home. Actually, he had already inherited it, had been living there, but when his mom passed away he was too young, too new on the job and...
by Athena Paquette | Feb 19, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
FALSE! At times Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s automated underwriting system (DU and LP) will calculate that a borrower has good enough credit or enough equity or enough cash reserves where they find this borrower is low risk and therefore only needs to present 1 tax...
by Athena Paquette | Jan 30, 2016 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Client graduates from Pharmacy school with $170,000 in student loan debt. No, that’s not the win, but here it is. She bought a home with her hubby while in school. They bought March of 2012 for $410,000. Put 20% down. Now the house is worth $550,000-600,000 and she...
by Athena Paquette | Nov 20, 2015 | Blog, Home Owners, Investors, Realtors
Clients who bought their home in 2005 for $580,000 and saw the value drop to $350,000 have finally seen their neighbor this month sell for $600,000. Yes they now can refi their 0 down loan from 2005. They still have a 6.1% interest only loan, and have not paid extra;...