Today's episode is all about how to buy a home. What does that process look like? What does the pride of home ownership mean? That's an amazing feeling, to have a place that you can call your own, a home base, a mortgage payment that's locked in.
Steps to buy a home:
- Figure out if you can be approved for financing unless you're sitting on cash and you're going to write a check for it.
- Talk to a lender and get preapproved for a mortgage.
- Gather information of what your goals are
- Determine your budget
- Two most important numbers, your monthly payment and total cash to close
- Where you want to buy it
- How much you have available to put down
- Roughly what your credit score is
- What you do for a living
- Submit an application online and you're going to provide some paperwork to verify your income and your assets.
- Run a credit report.
- Prequal consultation.
- You get a pre-qualification letter.
- Shop for homes.
- Your Agent will help you negotiate with the seller and their agent.
- Once you go under contract, the first thing that you're going to do is write a check to the title company.
- You could cancel the contract for any reason during those first ten days to get a full refund of your earnest money.
- Your real estate agent is going to set you up with an inspector to do an inspection of the home.
- Assuming everything's good on the home now you're continuing to move forward in the transaction.
- Hear the rest of the steps on this episode!
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