In this video I cover the 5 major steps in arranging financing on your home. Enjoy!
Transcription of Video:
Hi, everybody. It’s Rowan Smith at the Mortgage Centre. I’m going to cover today the five simple steps that you’re going to go through when you’re purchasing a home. There are many, many steps, and each of these steps has a sub step. But I think it’s important just to explain what you should be doing first. Now before you go looking at homes, before you go taking a Realtor and having them spend time driving you around, first you need to be pre approved. That’s number one.
During that pre approval process, what I’m going to do is work to get you the best rate held I can. I’m also going to let you know what documentation and paperwork you’re going to require in order to actually get a final approval.
A pre approval is just that, it’s a pre approval. You can’t rely 100 percent that that mortgage will be there. All that it really is doing is holding your rate, and the bank is saying if your financing documents show what you tell us, then you’re approved and we’ve got the rate sitting here for you. Step one, pre approval.
Step two is find a good Realtor. Now if you’re looking around, and you don’t know a Realtor in your area, usually I can point you in the direction of someone if you’re in the Vancouver/Greater Vancouver area.
However, I caution you against what we call DNA Realtors, which is a Realtor you’re dealing with just because of a blood relation. You’re going to want to get somebody that knows the market. Number two, get a good Realtor.
Number three, you want to start looking at homes at this point. Now you can start touring around. If you’re looking at condos or you’re looking at properties that you would call as unique properties, you’re
going to want to bounce them off the person that gave you that pre approval.
Many banks don’t finance certain types of property. Some banks aren’t doing rentals right now. Other properties aren’t doing rental condominiums. It depends on who your bank is and who you’re dealing with. Your mortgage broker can help you in that matter.
Step four, write an offer. Once you’ve got that offer accepted, that’s when the real process begins. That’s where I have to sit down with you now and provide all that documentation.
Hopefully, you’ve given it to me. I’ll have asked for it up front so I can review it ahead of time. But I’ll ask you for all that paperwork which we submit to the lender.
During that time, they’re going to give you an approval. Once you’ve got that approval, then you can remove your subjects. Your subjects are the “if” clauses in your contract, that your offer is, say, $400,000 subject if you get financing.
So those are the steps; find a good mortgage broker, find a Realtor, start looking at homes, write an offer, and remove subjects. Those are the five big things where the stress, and the time crunch, and the pressure is going to be more extreme.
Now after that period of time, there’s usually a period of waiting until you close at the lawyer’s office, but that comes much, much later.
If you have any questions or you want to know more about the process for your unique situation, please give me a call. It’s Rowan Smith from the Mortgage Centre.
