•  Mortgage Tips for Buyers,Michael Santiago

    Mortgage Tips for Buyers

    Here are some dos and don'ts would like to share with our buyers to help them in their home buying journey. Tips: Do not utilize credit to make enormous buys for things like vehicles, furniture or excursions. Try not to change or leave a place of employment. Talk with a home loan proficient prior to pulling out, saving or moving a lot of cash in or out of a financial balance. Try not to take care of obligations or assortments (except if trained to do as such by a home loan proficient). Try not to involve cash for an honest intentions store - cash is hard to check and could bring about an end delay. Try not to have credit pulled too often - this can hurt the financial assessment. Take care of all bills on time. Keep documentation of any enormous nonpayroll stores. These tips ought to be followed earlier being pre-supported through the date of shutting. Any progressions in the purchaser's monetary circumstance might influence the purchaser's capacity to get a home loan. Banks like to see consistency in the purchaser's funds. Go ahead and reach me with any inquiries. I would be glad to work with you and your purchasers to get pre-supported.  

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  • Advantages of High Credit Scores,Michael Santiago

    Advantages of High Credit Scores

    One of the most crucial assets an adult may have is a high credit score, which supports many significant life goals.  A good credit score helps you get better insurance rates, makes you attractive to landlords, pay less interest on credit card debt, and qualify for loans more quickly. Given that companies frequently examine them, it might even help you land your dream job.

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  • Boost your credit score by paying your bills,Michael Santiago

    Boost your credit score by paying your bills

    Earning a lower interest rate on your home loan can save you thousands of dollars a year, depending on the amount of your mortgage. The best way to earn that lower rate is to build a FICO score of 800 (or above) — that's the score that is widely considered to be "excellent" by lenders. But how do you reach that score? How do you raise a score in the 600s to one at or near 800? It's all about paying your monthly bills on time. The credit bureaus: The payments you make on certain monthly bills — including your credit card as well as your mortgage, auto, personal and student loans — are reported each month to the national credit bureaus Experian, Equifax and TransUnion. If you make these payments on time, your credit score will gradually increase. But if you make them late? Your credit score can fall by 100 or more points. Paying these bills on time is the most important step you can take if you are aiming for that magical score of 800. What counts as late? There is some leeway here. Your payments aren't counted as late unless you make them 30 or more days past their due date. This means that if your credit card bill is five days late, you still have time to make that payment before it is reported as officially late to the credit card bureaus. Pay within the 30-day window and your score won't suffer. How important is your payment history? According to FICO, your payment history makes up 35% of your FICO credit score. That makes this the most important factor in determining your score. The next most important factor is how much debt you have. If you can make your payments on time and pay down your debts, you boost your odds of building the kind of credit score that will give you the lowest interest rates when you are looking to take out a mortgage. How long does it take to improve your score? What if you already have late payments on your credit history? These late payments will remain on your three credit reports for seven years before falling off. But the negative impact of these payments will lessen over time. If you build a new history of paying your bills on time, your score will gradually and steadily improve. Be aware that this takes time. You can't boost a weak credit score overnight. Avoid companies that say they can improve your score quickly; you'll be paying for something that you can do on your own. The key to building a strong credit score is patience and persistence in paying your bills on time. Do that, and that 800 credit score will eventually be yours.

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