New Home Loan - 3 Tips To Speed Up The Mortgage Loan Approval Process

Written by Carrie Reeder


Imagine this: you’ve foundrepparttar perfect house, and feel lucky becauserepparttar 146236 interest rates happen to be at an all time low. So you submit your mortgage loan application, and then…wait. The next week, interest rates go up a point, but you’re still waiting. Another point would mean a significant amount inrepparttar 146237 monthly payment you will pay, and you groan when you openrepparttar 146238 newspaper and find that indeed it has gone up again.

Can this be avoided?

Luckily, there are some steps that you can take to speed uprepparttar 146239 process of your loan application! Here are a few suggestions.

First of all, if you haven’t yet started shopping for your new home, you should consider shopping for a home LOAN beforerepparttar 146240 home. It is possible to be approved for a mortgage loan before you ever find your home, and this will accomplish two things. First of all, it will allow you to lock in an interest rate, which will completely eliminaterepparttar 146241 “waiting” game mentioned above. In addition, if a seller sees that you are pre-approved, he will be more likely to negotiate with you because he will view you as a “serious” buyer.

If you’ve already found your dream house and still need to get a mortgage loan approval, there are some steps that you can take to speed uprepparttar 146242 process.

You should be sure that anytimerepparttar 146243 mortgage company calls you, that you return their call as soon as possible, and then provide whatever documentation or data they need. Remember, if they call you for something that generally means that they won’t be able to move forward on your loan until they receive it.

5 Secrets for Surviving a Real Estate Market Downturn

Written by Rhiannon Williamson


History repeatedly serves to show us thatrepparttar real estate market is cyclical. It has boom times and stagnant times, occasionally it suffers a crash but real estate never becomes worthless, therefore ifrepparttar 146225 experts are right and we’re about to suffer a slow to stagnant period inrepparttar 146226 real estate market, all is not lost!

There are 5 fundamental secrets that real estate investors like to keep close to their chest and they arerepparttar 146227 secrets that enable them to survive and even profit during a bear market.

This article blowsrepparttar 146228 lid offrepparttar 146229 secret world ofrepparttar 146230 professional real estate investor!

1)Aligning For Profit in a Bear Market

When professional property investors believerepparttar 146231 market is entering a downward phase i.e., changing from Bull to Bear - they will change their investment strategies accordingly. One method that tough investors apply is to buy up property inrepparttar 146232 best areas that they can afford once a market is slumping already. Professional real estate investors know thatrepparttar 146233 best areas for property always boom again very early on inrepparttar 146234 next property cycle.

By working in this way they can then leverage their investment by selling their property early on inrepparttar 146235 boom cycle and buying elsewhere and always remaining one step ahead of less professional investors or average home owners.

Up and coming areas will eventually peak as well of course as they are swept along onrepparttar 146236 tide ofrepparttar 146237 boom, but they will not peak first and investors in these areas will have to wait longer to see their profits.

Professional investors will likely enter these areas just before they peak and sell up just beforerepparttar 146238 heat goes out ofrepparttar 146239 market enabling them to again buy up what they can afford inrepparttar 146240 best areas thus positioning themselves ready forrepparttar 146241 next upward trend. And so it continues!

2)Slow Down Your Speculating

You may already have decided thatrepparttar 146242 time is no longer right to be over extending yourself and you may have cut back on your property purchases, but remember that making any home improvement or taking on any renovation projects during a downward period ofrepparttar 146243 property market is also considered to be speculating. Don’t just assume that capital appreciation from your property will justify home related expenditure right now…in a bear market it won’t.

3)Never Forget The Supply and Demand Theory

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