Low Down Payment Mortgage Options to Buy a House

Low Down Payment Mortgage Options to Buy a Home - Quicken Loans Zing Blog

Whether you’re buying a home for the first time or the fifth, figuring out the down payment amount gets a little tricky. On one hand, you may have people telling you to put the traditional 20% down since it will help you avoid paying PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance) and may reduce your mortgage interest rate. On the other hand, you see how low interest rates are, and it makes you wonder if…

How to Increase a Credit Score

Credit scores and lending risks for a bank

How to Increase a Credit Score
Credit scores are one of the largest factors that lenders use in evaluating whether or not to lend money to a borrower. Credit scores are designed to measure the risk of someone defaulting by taking into account various factors in a person’s financial history.

If you are considering purchasing a home in Missouri (or in any other states), one of the things you…

8 Tips To Improve Your Home Appraisal

(Reuters) – When Kellie and Michael May decided to refinance their home in the New York suburbs, they wanted to take advantage of historically low interest rates. But before landing a new 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, they had to get through a home appraisal.

“It was a major stumbling block,” says Kellie May, who has owned the 4-bedroom, 3-bath colonial for seven years. Not that she and her…

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