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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!
I thought I would write a blog to help all the For Sale By Owner selling in Salt Lake. Selling For Sale By Owner or FSBO is something I know a lot about. Ok, I know some of you are rolling your eyes saying this is where the Realtor is going to tell us we have to list to sell because 80% of homes are sold by Realtor’s etc. Maybe and maybe not; it all depends on the market conditions at the current time.
Allow me to give you some credential, I was the nation Real Estate Broker working for ForSaleByOwner.com from May 2005 to May2008. I listed dozens of flat fee listing a month for most of the Watch Front and consulted with national listing agent and customer support problems. Created new programs for ForeSaleByOwner.com to market to seller and buyers and yes sold real estate. For you people keeping score that was during the boom of the real estate flipping era. So I know a little about the For Sale By Owner way of selling. I’ll be honest you can sell your home as a FSBO. In today’s buyers market it harder. It not easy because buyers are looking for the great deals of bank owned and short sales they want a great deal and those two category of homes are being show by Realtor’s only. So buyer tend to become clients of Realtors and end up seeing only listed homes not FSBO homes. I’m sorry that is the nature of the market right now. If it becomes a seller’s market again FSBO will be very effective again. I don’t see that happening anytime soon. Even if they don’t buy a short sale or bank owned home they buy a listed home. So how do you get listed without paying 6%? Now that’s a really great question! Continue reading Selling Your Home For Sale By Owner in Salt Lake County
How about a real alternative Realty As Is Grand Slam Grant!
Utah Legislature has used the last 1/3 of the Utah People TARP funds, allocated to the state of Utah, for New Construction Home Buyers Grant. I guess they had to give the development companies more assistant to sell their overpriced, new construction home!!!! There are a lot of programs that really would have benefited home buyer a lot more if the legislator really wanted to stimulate the real estate recovery in Utah. Like why doesn’t Utah have a, loan of the first time home buyers tax credit, so they can use it for their down payment? HUD has approved this and Utah housing, the administrator of the Home Run Grant, is really the only entity in Utah that could do it and their answer to me when I ask them why it wasn’t being provided as a program? Was they didn’t have any Money to do these loans! So why didn’t the legislator allocate the fund for this up front loan of the $8,000 first time home buyers Tax credit I don’t know? Were creating our own Home Buying Program the Realty As Is Grand Slam Rebate 1/2 of Our the Buyers Agent Commission. An Home Any Price Any Use Just buy with us. Short Sales Bank Owned Tax Credit Utah Housing Loans we Just want you to get a home and a real incentive!!! Continue reading Embarrassment to the State The New Utah Home Run Grant!
First off if you get a notice of defaults for your lender don’t get too upset. Please call a Professional like us at Project Hope for Home Owners 800-604-0281. We specialize in helping people sort out their situation and chose powerfully how they want to deal with this. You have lots of options and time to create a plan. You by no means are alone in this. Salt Lake County Notice of Defaults or NOD’s are up 289% over 2007 levels and 150% over 2008.
I want to look at the trend in # for the last 2 years of foreclosures in Salk Lake County. I will be using the Data form New Reach the best real estate data source available for real estate in Salt Lake County. Below is a chart breaking down the Notice of Defaults for sale Lake County for 2007 -2009? It’s rather sobering to see that for July of 2009 were up 289% over 2007. Continue reading Foreclosures in Salt Lake County up 289% what to do if you get a notice?
It you’re a first time home buyer and your waiting to get a good deal save money or just haven’t had time to get in the home buying game, I have news. The First Time Home Buyers $8000 free, Tax credit expires November 30 2009. With the new disclosure laws it will take 45 days to close a loan. So if you don’t have a property, not a short sale under contract by October 15th you’ll be in big trouble! If you want to get the best deal a short sale you should have a few under contract now. Don’t’ wait until the last minute. You see this is a people phenomenon. We put off things and rush at the end. We’ll if it goes the way I foresee all the lower priced homes will have a feeding frenzy in September, lender will get back up. Short sale will get backed up and won’t get completed by the deadline. It will be like the days after Thanksgiving accept for home. Let’s avoid the big lines and get you shopping now. We’ll show you how to get and additional $4,500 on a $300,000 home! Continue reading First time Home Buyers $8000 Tax Credit, it’s time to jump in the game
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