Revised Land Contract Guidelines

A quick Friday fact from your Texas FHA Refinance Lender

DID YOU KNOW?

If a borrower will use the loan to complete payment on a land contract, contract for deed, or other similar type financing arrangement in which the borrower does not have title to the property, the new mortgage may be processed as either a purchase [...]

HUD’s NEW Proposed Refinance Program

WASHINGTON — The Department of Housing and Urban Development launched a program Wednesday to help underwater borrowers refinance their mortgages, but its details appeared to pose fresh challenges for servicers and lenders.

The agency said borrowers with payment- and debt-to-income ratios over a certain threshold must complete a three-month trial period in a new loan before [...]

FHA Modernization

FHA Modernization

Brian Montgomery, Assistant Secretary for Housing, has testified before the House Financial Services Committee that modernizing the Federal Housing Administration is of paramount importance for America’s “troubled subprime borrowers.” The FHA has been insuring mortgage loans for low and moderate income families since the depths of the Great Depression, but these loans became unpopular [...]