Pre-Qualified Buyers or Pre-Approved Buyers, a Big Difference
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A few years ago, if you were pre-qualified for a mortgage, that was considered enough for home shopping. No longer. Now, sellers prefer seeing pre-approved buyers.
What’s the difference? You can be pre-qualified simply with a phone call to a mortgage lender. The loan officer will ask your income, your debts, quickly run some numbers, and tell you the amount that you can afford, based on your replies.
Pre-approval on the other hand is where the mortgage lender has looked at your latest credit report, verified your income and debts and based on facts has approved your loan and issued a letter saying that you have been pre-approved for a certain amount.
I have had clients who were in bidding wars on home and even though one offer was lower, the seller accepted that offer simply because the buyer was fully pre-approved for a mortgage.
If you’re buying a house get serious and have your mortgage lender go through the entire process of approval. This sure puts you in a better bargaining position when buying.
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