How to Buy a House home

Learn the basics

1.

The Basics

2.

How much home can you afford?

3.

The Down Payment

4.

The Loan

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Assuming a Loan

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Owner Financing

5.

Qualifying for a loan

6.

Understand Closing Costs

Do the groundwork

7.

Get your finances in order

8.

Clean Up Your Credit Record

9.

Establish Credit if you don't have any

The Process

10.

Find a Lender

11.

Evaluate the bank's offer

12.

Start looking at houses

13.

Get the Disclosure

14.

Make an offer / Sign a Contract

15.

Have the House Inspected

16.

Problems on the Inspection?

17.

Renegotiate the terms

18.

Appraisal, Survey, & Insurance

19.

Appraisal went through?

20.

Closing!

After the purchase
Avoding scams
More about Mortgages
How much loan can you get?
Figuring your monthly pmt.
15- vs. 30-year loans
Prepaying your mortgage
Understand Compound Interest
Private Mortgage Insurance
If you won't live long enough to pay off the mortgage
Other Topics
Renting vs. Buying: Which is better?
Paying cash vs. getting a loan
The Debt Ratio
Tax breaks are actually welfare for the rich
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How to Buy a House

Easy-Qualify loan in Austin

0% down

Michael Bluejay (the author of the website) is offering loans to homebuyers in Austin, Texas. Here are the terms:

  • Your credit does not matter, but your ability to pay does.
  • No down payment is required, though you can make a down payment if you like, in order to lower your monthly payments.
  • Your monthly payment will be about 1.15% of the purchase price, including closing costs, taxes, insurance. (e.g., on a $100,000 home, the payments would be about $100,000 x 0.0115 = $1150/mo.).
  • The interest rate is 10%, and I do not require private mortgage insurance. We'll roll most of the closing costs into the mortgage, so they'll be part of your monthly payment, and you won't have to come up with a bunch of closing cost money at the time of the sale.
  • If you already have a high-interest mortgage and would like to refinance at 10% for 30 years, I can do that too.
  • These loans are available for homes in Austin, Texas only.

If you're able to get a bank loan you should do so, because the interest rate will be lower. My program is intended for people who cannot get a loan from a bank.

Note that you're not married to the higher interest rate forever. If you start fixing your credit with my credit repair instructions, you should have good enough credit to move your loan to a bank in two years -- and get a lower interest rate.

Contact me at
(512) 322-0638

or use the form below.

No questions accepted

(and no link exchanges, either)

I welcome corrections to this site. Much of the value of this site is the result of reader input, which I greatly appreciate.

But if you have a question about your own house-buying situation, please realize that this website is my gift to you. Private consultation is not. With the volume of email I receive it's just not possible for me to function as a help line. When I have tried to refer readers to their lender or their realtor to have their questions answered they've often responded with something like, "Some help you are!" Why people think I exist to serve them is beyond me, but it's also hurtful, after I spent many, many hours putting this site together to share my knowledge for free.

Please realize that in most cases your lender or your realtor will really be better sources of information than I will. Unlike me, they work with real estate issues day in and day out, and more importantly, they're more familiar with you and your specific situation. (i.e, Put your questions to them, not to me.)

I used to offer help in exchange for being paid for a modest fee of $40, but that just resulted in readers writing in to angrily accuse me of making the website and having the No Questions policy simply as a front to sell my consulting services. That was definitely not the case. If it were, I would have advertised that service all over the site rather than just on the "Don't email me" page. (Also, no one ever took advantage of it -- people apparently want my help only if it's free.) Anyway, since so many readers questioned my motives for offering paid assistance, I no longer do so. I'm not available for help now, even if you pay me.

So if you're NOT writing to ask for advice or information (and not writing to ask for a link exchange), then please send your message to . Amazingly, despite the huge disclaimer above some people send their questions anyway. I guess some people are just eager to prove how stupid they are. I'm sorry about the strong wording but without it I get even more questions.

And I can't tell you how many times I've gotten a message like this one I just received, which I excerpt verbatim: "TAKE DOWN YOUR FUCKIN SITE IF YOU DON'T WANT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS!" So I'm not allowed to share information via a website unless I also agree to function as a free helpdesk? Wow.

If you send compliments about the site then please understand that I may reprint them on the site.

Thank you for reading this page.

 

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