BiggerPockets

I needed to post an piece of mortgage advise

Tuesday, April 07

Don;t believe everything your loan officer tells you. If he gives you a good faith estimate, have it double check with another completing mortgage broker that way you will know if you're getting a good deal. If the broker you show it to, smiles and send you on your way then you know you have a trust worthy loan offficer and maybe a good friend.

Word of wisdom: check around

The history of mortgages

Wednesday, April 01

A lot of people know what a Home Loan  is, due to the fact that many people have one. So do you know where how it begin? This is where a mortgage came from:

A long time ago, a Home Loan  was just a conveyance of land for a fee. The purchaser paid the seller a set rate, with no interest, and the seller would sign over the land to the buyer. There were usually conditions that had to be met before the land would be the property of the buyer, similar to today, but usually it was based upon the assumption that the land would produce the money to pay back the seller. So, a Home Mortgage  was written due to this fact, and the Mortgage Loan stayed in effect regardless if the land produced or not.

But agreement had many disadvantages for the purchaser because the owner of the real estate, or the Home Mortgage lender who was holding the deed to the land, had complete control over it and could do whatever they liked, which included transferring it, not accepting, refusing payoff, and other issues which caused major problems for the buyer, who  had no legal rights at all. As time passed, and continue misused of the mortgage system, the courts began to uphold more of the buyer's rights so that they had more to stand on when it came to owning their land. Eventually, they were allowed to demand the deed be free and clear upon the payoff of the property. There were still steps taken to ensure that the seller still had the ability to keep their interest safe and make sure that the debt owe to them was paid.

In the U.S., some states have written their own version of the Home Mortgage , which is why they are referred to as “lien states”. In England and Wales, the Law of Property Act of 1925 created a close parallel to the U.S.'s stance on mortgages. In 1934, Home Mortgage  began to be widely used again in the U.S., and the Federal Housing Administration(FHA) helped to lower the down payments on homes to make it easier for buyers to purchase a home. During that time, about 40% of population in the U.S owned real estate. Currently, that number is closer to 70%, due to the lower interest rates

Although Home Mortgage  today have evolved into many different forms, they are still basically the same essential contract that they were in the beginning. Now, there are many more laws and regulations to help protect the borrower, seller, and bank. There are also many different ways to lock in a low interest rate, you just need to talk to your Home Mortgage lender about what the interest rates are currently and what kinds of loans they offer to keep those interest rates low throughout the life of your loan.

Info brought to you by Las Vegas Mortgage