All Forum Posts by: Ruben M.

Well this happens to be one of the approved lenders on the HUD site, and she knew I was looking at foreclosures so I'm hoping that they are familiar with HUD. I was hoping they can use the original appraisal so that I don't have to deal with trying to get the water/electrical on. I don't think it would be a problem according to the PCR and my walk through, but I would hate for them to find something else that would make it difficult for me to close. Are the HUD appraisals done right before they are listed or does it take a while? It's been about a 100 days since it was originally listed. Would it be 120 days as long as it gets in the lenders hands, or need to close within the 120 days?

This is actually my second HUD home, but I didn't do much research 7yrs ago when I bought my first one. This time I monitored the bid results and did my own analysis for how my local market was doing. The recent average has been an 86% net to HUD. There was one property that was 72% net to HUD, but I think that particular one was way over priced and it had an HOA that I'm sure HUD didn't like having to pay. The bid I got accepted for last week was 84% net to HUD. I could have probably got it a little cheaper if I waited since it was on the market for over 90 days, but I had put earlier bids in weeks before and kept getting countered at 88%. I didn't want to wait any longer because my realtor seemed to be getting annoyed and I actually want to live in this house so it was personal. Plus I think one more price drop and investors would have realized how much of a good deal the property was because the listing was done very poorly. They only put the square footage of the first floor, and from the pictures and description you wouldn't know there was another floor to the house.

I had preapproval from 4 different lenders and before I won, one of my lenders said it could be difficult to close because they won't consider the house move in ready since there isn't a stove and refrigerator. That was one of the conventional loans. Because of this, I am using the one lender that offered me FHA financing. The HUD home was listed as Insured so my question is, does the FHA appraisal from HUD still carry over or do FHA loans do their own appraisal also? I will be speaking to the lender this afternoon, but thought I would share my story and maybe gain some knowledge beforehand.