Florida mortgage

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Now it is more convenient than whenever before! I do not need even to spend my time on searching a property! The widget can be easily embedded into a real estate website or blog.

Especially I liked Drive score widget. Drive score  http://drivescore.fizber.com/  is another convenient service on Fizber.com which calculates drive score based on the number of places within a convenient driving distance. Fantastic!

Fizber.com, a for-sale-by-owner (FSBO) website, has recently made a research on the most popular FSBO markets in the U.S.

In the list of top FSBO selling, no-commission states, Florida has an edge over New York, with over 2600 homes for sale by owner currently listed. States like Illinois, New Jersey, and California are also on the rise when it comes to FSBO listings. Close to 25% of all homes sold in the United States are being sold by their owners without commission, and homebuyers are using the Internet more than ever now as a powerful searching tool to find homes in the areas they want to move in.

Going FSBO in Florida is nearly as popular as using a realtor nowadays. FSBO, by the way, means “for sale by owner” and indicates the seller is willing to forgo real estate agents to avoid paying commissions. In short, the buyer gets a better deal and the seller makes more money. The FSBO market is strong throughout Florida, but particularly mention has to be made of Miami. More…

Today I will end my list (the beginning in the previous post)
E. Loan must be properly serviced-collection of payments, property taxes, and insurance premiums (escrow management) done by lender or by a third party; actually the bulk of lender’s costs from such a loan occur up front and administrative costs are low once the loan is made.
F. Frequently, an outside party-government agency or private insurer-must approve the loan for insurance or resale purposes, so the lender must be conscious of the roles and rules of these outside agencies or insurers.
G. Most home mortgage lenders have several alternative loan plans available and must choose the loan option which conforms most closely to the borrower’s and lender’s current situation.

H. Restrictive covenants are often used in real estate loans-enforceable liens, borrower responsible for taxes and property assessments, repair and maintenance, notification of changes, acceleration clause, and right of redemption.
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I want to tell you about important differences between mortgage lending and other forms of bank lending. So, they are the following:
A. Average loan size and maturity is much longer (25 to 30 years for homes), resulting in a loan especially sensitive to interest-rate and default risk.
B. Condition and value of property loaned against is nearly as important as borrower’s cash flow (capital) strong need for competent, objective, and conforming appraisals that minimize the twin problems of loan loss and customer loss.
e. Lenders receive several different forms of income from home mortgage loans — loan interest rate, servicing fees, appraisal fees, property inspection fees, prepayment penalty fees, etc.
D. Loans conforming to market or regulatory standards may be sold in the secondary market to life insurance companies, savings banks, savings and loans, credit unions, pension funds, FNMA, GNMA, or packaged in a pool in order to issue mortgage-backed securities.
I will continue this list in my next post, and now I would like to give you addresses in Florida:
7) Southern Financing LLC
http://www.southernfinancing.com/
12730 New Brittany Blvd, 4th Floor
Fort Myers, FL 33907
Call: 239-464-3385 (ask for Dr. Willi Schneider)
Loan programs: Conforming, Jumbo, Imperfect credit, No documentation loans.
8) Seabrook Mortgage
http://www.seabrookmortgage.com/
Call: 866-502-5363 (ask for Liz Burris)
Loan programs: Conforming, Jumbo, Imperfect credit, No documentation, FHA loans.
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AlexSandra

Today I would like to continue my story about real estate lending and government standards and regulation in this sphere. One more example of such a regulation is the Federal National Mortgage Association’s (FNMA, or Fannie Mae) requirement that any home mort­gage loans acquired must come from borrowers whose monthly house payment (including loan principal and interest, taxes, and insurance) does not exceed 28 percent of their monthly gross income and the sum of all their regular monthly payments (including housing costs) does not exceed 36 percent of their monthly gross income. The maturity of the home mortgage loan cannot be less than 10 years or more than 30 years, and the property must be appraised by a Fannie Mae-approved appraiser. FNMA regulations also stipulate that the borrower’s credit report cannot be more than 90 days old.
While rules such as these represent a burden and a real cost to the home mortgage lender, they bring an offsetting benefit because loans conforming to these regulatory standards (i.e., loans following the stan­dardized application form known in the U. S. today as Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Form 1003, where Freddie Mac is the popular name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) usually can be sold quite readily in the secondary market to other financial institutions, particularly life insurance companies, savings banks, and pension funds, or to government agencies such as Fannie Mae or Ginnie Mae (i.e., the Government National Mortgage Association, or GNMA). Frequently a bank or other tending institution will package their mortgage loans into GNMA-sponsored loan pools and sell securities as claims against those pools to securities dealers and other investors, thereby raising new funds to make still more loans.
Changes in regulations and the shifting fortunes of different financial institutions have resulted in major changes in bank and nonbank firms making mortgage loans. While commercial banks often prefer to make shorter-term property loans (especially construction loans), the mortgage banking subsidiaries of bank holding companies now account for a major portion of all home mortgage loans. These subsidiary firms have strong market contacts and can usually resell any home mortgage loans they make in short order to long-distance lenders, such as life insurers, mutual savings banks, or foreign investors. Mortgage subsidiaries usually establish short-term “warehouse lines” at banks to provide funding in order to carry the mortgages they originate or buy until they can sell those same loans to other investors. Moreover, the mortgage banking subsidiaries of a bank holding company can branch at will into distant cities and states, while bank branching is often prohibited or restricted.
I would like to finish my post with some useful addresses again:
 
4) A Coastal Funding
http://www.coastalfund.com/
Call: 800-594-3319 (ask for Teresa Erhart)
Loan programs: Conforming, Imperfect credit, No doc, Jumbo, VA loans.
5) Franklin Bank, SSB 
http://www.aksmortgage.com/
Call: 888-638-3817
Loan programs: Conforming, Imperfect credit, Jumbo, No doc loans.
6) Net Mortgage Funding
http://www.netmortgagefunding.com/
1800 Northgate Blvd, Suite A8
Sarasota, FL 34234
Call: 866-365-5100 (ask for Vinnie D’Andraia)
Loan programs: Conforming, Imperfect credit, Jumbo, No documentation loans.
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Yours sincerely,
AlexSandra

I wanted to write some interesting things about mortgage loans in Florida, but after my in-depth study I understood that the main peculiarities of home landing in Florida are the same as in any other state. That is why first of all I would like to write about some theoretic facts and then I’ll give you some addresses where you can find further information about real estate loans.
Real estate loans are granted by banks to fund the acquisition of real property-homes, apartment complexes, shopping centers, office build­ings, warehouses, and other physical structures, as well as land in some cases. Real estate lending is a field unto itself, possessing important differences from other types of bank loans. In banking, real estate loans typically are either short-term construction loans, paid out within months or weeks as a building project is completed, or long­ term mortgages that may stretch out 25 to 30 years in order to provide permanent financing for the acquisition or improvement of real property.
I think that it will be very interesting for you to know the differences between real estate loans and other loans. So, real estate loans differ from most other kinds of loans in several key respects.
First, the average size of a real-estate loan is usually much larger than the average size of other loans, especially consumer installment and noninstallment loans and small business loans. Moreover, certain mortgage loans, mainly on single-family homes, tend to have the longest maturities (from about 15 years out to 25 or 30 years typically) of any loan a bank makes. Long-term lending of this sort carries considerable risk for the lending institution because many things can happen, in­cluding adverse changes in economic conditions, interest rates, and the health of the borrower over the term of such a loan. Long-term mortgage loans are especially sensitive to default risk and interest rate risk.
Moreover, with most other types of loans, it is the projected cash flow or income of the borrower that is most important in the decision to approve or deny a loan application. With real estate lending, however, the condition and value of the property that is the object of the loan is nearly as important as the borrower’s income or estimated cash flow. In real estate lending competent property appraisal is a vitally important ingredient to the decision on a loan request. Such appraisals must con­form to industry and government standards, particularly if it is likely that the mortgage will be sold in the secondary market, enabling the lender to raise additional funds to make new loans.
And now I’m going to fulfill my promise to give you some addresses in Florida:
1) U S Loans Mortgage LLC
http://www.usloans.com/
Call: 877-562-5123 x201 (ask for Fred Glick)
Loan programs: Conforming, Imperfect credit, No doc, Jumbo, VA loans.
2) FloridaLoan.net 
http://www.floridaloan.net/
1263 10th Street
Lake Park, FL 33403
Call: 561-470-7623 (ask for Dorothy Bass)
Loan programs:  Conforming, Imperfect credit, Jumbo, No doc loans.
3) Webb Mortgage Depot 
http://www.webbmortgage.com/
4546 SW Bimini Circle S
Palm City, FL 34990
Call: 800-952-8706
Loan programs:  Conforming, Imperfect credit, Jumbo, No doc loans.
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Yours sincerely,
AlexSandra

The 1986 Tax Reform Act opened up even wider the rapidly growing field of home equity loans in Florida. Under these programs, homeowners whose residence has appreciated in value can use the equity in their homes — the difference between a home’s estimated market value and the amount of the mortgage loan or loans against it — as a borrowing base. Thus, if a home was purchased for $80,000, financed through a $70,000 mortgage loan and, due to inflation and growing demand for housing, its market value is now $120,000, the homeowner will have a borrowing base of about $50,000 (i.e., $120,000 - $70,000). This base might be drawn upon as collateral for a $50,000 loan to remodel the home, to purchase a second home, or for some other legitimate purpose.
There are some types of home equity loans today. I’d like to tell some words about so-called traditional home equity loan, which is a closed-end credit covering a specific period of months and years and is used mainly for home improvements. These traditional equity credits are normally repaid in equal installments, quarterly or monthly, and are most frequently secured by a second mortgage against the borrower’s home.
Many banks and other financial institutions have recently seized upon the home equity loan opportunity by offering consumers lines of credit against their home’s borrowing base — a second and newer type of home equity loan. The credit limit on these home equity lines is usually determined by taking a percentage of the appraised value of the borrowing customer’s home (say, 75 percent) and subtracting the amount the customer still owes on his or her existing home mortgage loan… So, there are a lot of possibilities for you to choose the right variant for you, but it will be better to consult with experts. There are a lot of them in Florida, for example you can get in touch with Home Equity Service:

Home Equity Service
comunicacci-mail@yahoo.com
318 Indian Trace Suite 189
Weston, FL 33326
Call: 954-661-2777
 
In other words home equity loans enable people to convert their homes into cash without selling them. Simply, home equity conversion al­lows homeowners to draw on the equity they have accumulated. Some plans provide income over a specified period, and others guarantee a life­time income.
Features of home equity loans vary by state and by lender. That is why you should give credence to information about Florida only. However, the concept is basically the same. The homeowner applies for a revolving line of credit secured by the value of the home. The owner may be able to borrow up to 70 percent or 80 percent of the current value of the home, less the remaining balance on any mortgage on the home. And as I have said it will be better to consult with experts to know about the details of this type of consumer borrowing.
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Yours sincerely,
AlexSandra