We make residential mortgage loans in the great state of California. More specifically, Sonoma County,California including Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Rohnert Park, Cotati & Sebastopol, Sonoma and Healdsburg. While our focus is on the Sonoma County market, we do make loans outside of Sonoma County on a regular basis including throughout Northern and Southern California. The…
Yes, while you can still get a mortgage, the overall process might take longer. Here’s why if you live in Santa Rosa or Sonoma County, and own multiple financed properties as in more than four financed properties, your lender must put each and every property on the loan application under the schedule of real estate…
Yes you can. Here’s the best possible scenario to have to FHA Loans out at the same time. You purchased your home originally with an FHA Loan, put 3.5% down and now your situation has changed. Any one the following is makes sense with FHA: perhaps your business is such that you need a bigger…
Yes, having a cosigner in most situations does help you qualify for a mortgage as long as the cosigner has additional income used to offset the new housing payment liability. Consumers seeking to qualify for mortgage loan financing can use the benefit of someone else’s income to help them purchase a home or refinance a…
In short the answer is no, but for a few reasons. A credit report is only as good as that moment in time that it is obtained by the creditor, mortgage company, bank etc. The Fair Credit Reporting Act & Home Mortgage Disclosure Act both prevent a lender from originating a new loan with another…
Generally, speaking it depends. Each mortgage company has different policies and procedures. On average due to consumer protection laws governing appraisals, most are not transferable. When a mortgage company orders an appraisal, they have to use an appraisal management company, an independent third-party that has a panel of licensed appraisers. The AMC (for short), then …
This depends on a few factors: risk appetite- comfortable are you knowing that interest rates down the road will be different, put another way, how comfortable are you with the unknown? loan hold time- selling the house or refinancing again in the next 5 to 7 years? If you know this than an adjustable-rate mortgage…
Yes! Lots of mortgage companies still have a requirement that basically states, financing is unavailable for individuals who own more than four financed properties. This is a somewhat limiting condition, indignant of a smaller boutique type mortgage company, that is relatively small in the bigger picture of mortgage lending. Mortgage financing does exist for individuals…