Hi all,
We are in the part looking for a good lender for our second home. Looking through many websites: local banks such as Wachovia, SunTrust, BoA, some online like GMAC, etc.. we realize that most of listed information are for First time buyers. Requirements or eligibilities for apply a second loan is no-where to find. Actually SmartMoney, one of the members here, had given us really good thoughts about what to prepare in order to apply for a second loan (Thank you SmartMoney). We didnt' have any experience with this step because we didn't do any search with our first mortgage, we just followed our credit union. That was sure an expensive non-experience.
To be short, should we hire a lender/mortgage broker to do the loan searching job since our situation is a little bit complicate (first mortgage underwater - zero down, have about 20K in saving and want to get a 90K property)? As SmartMoney stated here (
https://www.city-data.com/forum/mortg...-question.html) we might not have enough money for reserving if 6 months are required on both properties (would be about $3.5K/month x 6 ~ 21.5K)
How much should we prepare for the hiring fee at the current moment?
Do you have any thought/experience with the Upfront Mortgage Broker (we found this term on a mortgage proffesion website)? We found one UMB company in DC/VA/MD area. It's said in their website that if we use their agent, we will receive some commission rebate. This rebate to me seems too good to be true (similar to the i-Agent website someone posted here). Of course we don't have any buyer agent at the moment so we think if this is true, we might give it a shot.
We think we should rather go with known lenders like banks than try to get a low rate with Amerisave or QuickenLoan? Which lenders do you prefer?
Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
Have a wonderful day.
Amy