Down payment assistance programs like The American Dream Down Payment Assistance are all but outlawed for use with any government insured loan programs.
It’s about damn time!
I can hear you now, “What’s wrong with charities helping home buyers by giving down payment assistance?”
In a word, it’s a scam…that’s why!
In more than a word, [...]

I am afraid it is not that simple.
Finding an “honest” mortgage broker is part knowing how to interview them and part “keeping them honest” by demonstrating your knowledge. In other words, the brokers (even the good ones) are willing to over-charge, if the client shows no real knowledge of how loans are priced, locked, [...]

Eliminating yield spread premium starts by avoiding banks like the plague. Bank mortgage rates will always include their version of YPS since they have no legal duty to disclose it.
(In the banking world YSP is call service release premium. This “different” classification was the legal technicality or loophole the industry used to [...]

Mortgage yield spread premium is responsible for up to two thirds of the revenue earned on every mortgage. Yet most Americans have no knowledge of mortgage yield spread premium or how to avoid it.
No one in the mortgage and banking industries wants you to find out about mortgage yield spread premium because it [...]

Bad credit mortgage loans are for borrowers who have credit issues and do not fit traditional mortgage credit standards. Bad credit mortgage programs are also known as B paper or subprime loans.
Bad credit mortgage lenders create loan programs with their own riskier underwriting standards combined with higher rate structures and then pool them for [...]

The 100% mortgage programs are really popular right now. The 100% mortgage is a loan program which requires no down payment. Therefore, trouble may be brewing.
Now on the surface a 100% mortgage this seems like a great idea. Since most surveys show the number one reason for not buying a home [...]

The best mortgage is never found by collecting a handful of Good Faith Estimates or by calling around getting mortgage rate quotes. Yet this is THE shopping method for most.
If you define the best mortgage as the loan having the best mortgage rate, the lowest costs, and the one that fits your financial [...]

FHA home mortgage programs are currently under threat of extinction. The FHA home mortgage could die a needless death if reforms don’t pass Congress quickly and correctly.
Due to a number of reasons, the long-standing govenment FHA home mortgage programs are quickly becoming irrelevant. So much so, on the floor of the US Congress a [...]

The stated income mortgage is getting harder to find these days. Stated income mortgage lenders are going under in droves and the ones remaining are curtailing the program effectively trapping borrowers who now can’t refinance away from rising payments.
Rob and I have been preaching to people for years about the dangers of the stated [...]

The 40 year mortgage is sold to folks who want or need a lower payment. Many home owners are seeking a monthly payment even lower those provided on standard 30 year fixed loans. A 40 year mortgage is less in monthly payment because the loan is amortized over 40 years instead of 30…at [...]