90-Day Seasoning Waiver Expanded
January 18, 2010 by Jeff Thomas · Leave a Comment
90-Day Seasoning Waiver Expanded Fairfax, Virginia: This update from FHA Virginia Loans was released on Friday January 15th, 2010, as an excerpt from the CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) without a corresponding Mortgagee Letter and contains information about FHA’s policies regarding the waiver of the 90-day seasoning required for sellers. Here are the 6 things [...]
Why are FHA loans so popular?
November 24, 2009 by Jeff Thomas · Leave a Comment
Why is FHA so popular today? Credit score: FHA has always been a friend to the borrower with bruised credit. But up until roughly 1999 credit scores were not that integrated into the mortgage lending process. And FHA lenders were still manually underwriting loan files up intil the past few years. FHA does not have [...]
FHA Streamline Loan Program Changes
November 20, 2009 by Jeff Thomas · Leave a Comment
Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has implemented significant changes for streamline refinances . These changes will affect all FHA streamline loans across the country and in the northern Virginia area, Vienna, Virginia, Alexandria, VA, Fairfax and the surrounding cities and county’s. These changes take place on all FHA case numbers ordered on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 [...]
Changes Coming To FHA Streamline Program
October 25, 2009 by Jeff Thomas · Leave a Comment
Changes to FHA streamline program are not for the ease of the consumer. And the changes are not for the better. In fact, most FHA loan holders will not like the changes. The US Dept of HUD recently announced that it will be making new revisions to FHA streamline refinance guidelines. Effective November 17, 2009, [...]
