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I just switched jobs, how does that affect my ability to qualify for a loan?

February 21, 2013 by Scott Sheldon

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Great question! This comes up very frequently. When you’re applying for a mortgage, most mortgage companies are going to require two years of stable job history explaining any job gaps from one job to another as well as doing a full two year history showing all dates of employment began and when employment ended during the full 24 months. If you change jobs, and you’re going from one industry to another industry you’re going to have to explain the change and why it took place and how your financial situation is battering because of the job change. As long as it’s just a job change from one W-2 position to another, you should be okay trying to qualify to buy a home or refinance a mortgage.

Where people get into trouble is when they switch jobs and their actual employment status changes that is going from being W-2 to going self-employed. This is an automatic 1 to 2 years timeframe it will take you to show income from being self-employed for the purposes of getting a mortgage. if you go from being self-employed to w2’ed, tenured and a venue to show either a pay stub and/or combination of the paystub and an offer letter showing what the income is going to be coupled with allowing the mortgage lender to do what’s called the verification of employment with your current employer. If you’d like to learn how potential job transfer or change might affect your ability to get a home loan, contact Scott@sonomacountymortgages.com today!

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