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203 K loans are the FHA loans that allow you to buy a home that is a fixer upper. The newly developed FHA 203 K Streamlined loan allows you to buy a home that is run down that wouldn’t qualify for FHA financing. As loan as there is no structural repairs needed. The list of allowable repairs is below. Buying with the FHA 203 K Streamlined loan is easy all you need to obtain contractors bids and submit them to your lender. This can be done at the time of inspection or maybe week of the inspection. Sure it more work but the get a home at a great buy and the money to fix it up at only 3.5% down payment, you’ll have to do a little more. It a great loan because it gives the buyer the ability to buy a Short sales, bank owned or just undervalued property that the seller won’t do FHA repair and have the home the way you want after closing with little of your buyers money . They can get up to $35,000 in repair, winterizing, greening up the home, put in new windows and R50 insulation in the attack, upgrade the electrical, making it just the way your client wants, and they just have to pay the 3.5% down on that portion and the rest in put in the loan. You can do allowable repairs up to $35,000 with no minimum; so if you just need $3,000 for carpet you can burrow that above the purchase price. If you need a new furnace and upgrade to the electrical system that’s Ok you just need to get bids form licensed contractor that meet requirement to do the work. Can you do the work yourself? Yes and no; you can do the work if you have the expertise and can prove it or if it is unskilled work like painting. Continue reading 203 K Streamline Loans are The Best Little Loan No One Knows About!