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Alabama Real Estate – A Southern Air
Alabama is undeniably a stereotypical southern state, but the state and real estate market hold undeniable surprises.
Alabama
Alabama is distinctly southern and darn proud of it. If you have a taste for college football, country music and...
Design Psychology for Home Staging
How does Design Psychology help stage your home for a top-dollar sale? Beyond the usual de-cluttering and super cleaning, you stage your home with suggested activities that speak to your buyers' feelings.
A new service for home...
Market Changes Favor FSBOs
Drastic paradigm shifts in how the residential real estate market works have been on the way for several years now. The change has really become apparent over the last year. It is easier for people to sell their homes themselves as FSBOs (for sale...
Real Estate Boom To End? – No!
The naysayers are proclaiming the end of the real estate boom once again. Once again, they are wrong.
Boom, Boom, Boom
In recent years, it's impossible to turn on the television or read the headlines without seeing a warning of impending doom....
The House Flipping Trend
Picture this: You purchase a run-down old house at a local auction. The house is falling apart, maybe even in the kind of ways that require Condemned signs, and you walk away thrilled to have spent $65,000 of your hard-earned money to own it. What...
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Plan Your Budget Before Investing On A Property
Owing a property gives a person financial security but before buying any type of property be it home,land or some commercial property it’s very important to estimate your budget.Pre-qualification is a very essential step in going for a property deal. There are various ways of pre-qualifying but good idea is to get help of a lender before you even start to look for a home. Pre-qualification lets a buyer know exactly how much a lender is willing to loan him and helps the buyer to save a lot of time, money and even your efforts will be in right direction. Often the first time buyers get puzzled about the estimation of their mortgage payment that they will be able to handle each month. They even have to decide how much money they need for a down payment and closing costs. That’s why it is advisable to meet the lender before going any further. Pre-qualification does not obligate buyers to take a loan from the lender, nor should it involve any fees. Until the buyer actually go for the loan.
Another way of pre-qualification is to meet some good real estate professional and get his advice. This is not compulsory but can be considered as one of the good methods to be followed in pre-qualification. Real estate agents help the buyer more easily as they are the people who constantly monitor the market scenario. The market trends are clearer to them and even they have large contacts in financial institutions which can help the buyer. Usually pre-qualified buyers
have an edge while making a deal with the seller as he knows that there is some lender ready for making the deal to happen. It helps you to negotiate the deal on you terms and make it more flexible.
When the lenders pre-qualify they are more concerned about the paying capacity of the buyer. With that the lenders also check for the other debts the buyer has or what is the monthly expenditure of the prospective buyer. There are different methods of deciding for the loan by the lenders. Loan plan is done according to debt-to-income ratio. In case of higher debt-to-income ratio one factor that influences the lender to allow loan to the buyer is more downpayment.Usually the debt-to-income ratio is between .28 to 1 and .38 to 1. The general theory in lenders circle is that a person who has invested more in the purchase is less likely to be a defaulter .What buyers usually realize that the pre-qualification process will produce a home purchase price that is roughly 2 to 3 times their gross annual income. Since the lender's calculations will also consider a buyer's actual debts and ongoing expenses, the loan pre-qualification amount may be higher or lower.
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