Welcome back to the series, Millennials Mortgage Process! Buckle up for this post, because initial disclosures, mortgage paperwork, and loan estimates are certainly a bumpy ride. “Initial disclosures are the preliminary disclosures that must be acknowledged and signed in order to move forward with your loan application. These disclosures outline the initial terms of the mortgage application and also include federal and state required mortgage disclosures.” Initial disclosures are terrifying.…
Welcome back to the series, Millennials Mortgage Process! In this post, I’ll give you a glimpse into the hectic first steps of the mortgage process, and just how quickly the pre-approval process takes in today’s digital mortgage world. My fiancé and I officially started to look at houses. We were using Zillow to find houses/townhomes/and neighborhoods that were…
Welcome back to the series, Millennials Mortgage Process! Today’s topic is about the best thing smartphones have given us in the last few years: Apps! There are a lot of different Apps to use when searching for and buying a home. Here’s a short list of the most helpful Apps I’ve been using for the past year: Zillow– I started…
Welcome back to the series, Millennials Mortgage Process! In this post, I’ll explore my reactions to the ‘affordability’ of housing and how greatly Credit Score plays a role. As I prepare to apply for a mortgage and continue to scroll through Zillow at mini-mansions I know I could never afford (we all do it…), one thing keeps cropping up and…
Millennials and Mortgages- the two words that seem to be on everyone’s mind recently. As a professional Millennial working in the mortgage industry, I’d like to offer a first-hand account of what we see and encounter in the Mortgage and home buying process. I’ll share my perspective of my own home buying experience throughout several posts this year, and hopefully…
Over the past three years, the first-time homebuyer market has increased 40% or 588,000 loans. Now, that’s a lotta loans! In 2017, first-time buyers bought 2.07 million new or existing homes, an increase of 129,000, or 7%, from 2016. During that same period, the number of first-time buyers using PMI increased by 93,000 loans. In the fourth quarter of 2017…
