The VA Home loan requirements make the loan one of the easiest loans to qualify for in the United States. The primary stipulation for qualifying for the VA loan is that you must have served in the US forces for a full time period of four years. This is the standard tour of duty for some people, so it follows that if you served in the army, you pretty much qualify.
One of the major VA loan benefits is that it’s possible to get a home with no money down using a VA Home loan. In the current economic housing market, this is practically one of the only loans now that will afford a person the opportunity to get a no money down home. Previously, there were many bad credit lenders that would offer sub prime mortgages with no money down, but since the housing crash, this is no possible.
However, no money down home mortgages are possible to get with the VA home loan. The one stipulation for getting no money down home with a VA loan is that you have to have good credit. If you don’t have good credit, you can still qualify for a VA loan, but you will have to put down a deposit on the home to get the loan.
VA loans traditionally have lower interest rates than other such loans – particularly the FHA home loan. If you have to choose between the two loans, it’s better to go with a VA home loan because of all the benefits it offers to home owners who can qualify for it
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February 14th, 2012Plans For a Small Inexpensive Home – Cheap Ways to Remodel Your Home
February 4th, 2012
While there are many different approaches to making plans small, inexpensive home, I’m going to be describing the one I see as the best choice for the average person with a small budget, and I’ll tell you why. There are many influencing factors affecting our world right now; some are new, and some are changing very rapidly. As time goes on, the struggle for resources becomes more complex and frenzied. Many modern building techniques, while effective and convenient for the infrastructure we have set up, are really quite wasteful and could be seen to encourage what could be called “living beyond our means.” Sustainability is something that we are all going to be hearing emphasized increasingly as time goes on. Building with natural materials whose production consumes little energy is a part of this idea.
The benefits of using natural materials to create your plans small inexpensive home are numerous, and I’ll describe some of them now. The first material I want to talk about is cob, which is a mixture of clay, sand, straw, water, and a binder such as wheat paste or manure for cohesiveness. When cob dries it is like concrete; very hard and strong. If you were to make a six inch wedge shaped shelf along a wall made of cob, once dried you would be able to stand, even jump up and down on it and it will not crumble. The chopped straw that is uniformly mixed in adds enormous tensile strength to the material. While it can be eroded or reshaped with enough water, it’s possible to seal the surface with an oil which will waterproof it. This is useful for cob floors because after treatment they can be mopped easily. Cob has relatively low insulating value, so if your wall is all cob it’s important to make it very thick to ensure retention of hot or cold air. Conversely, it works as excellent thermal mass, meaning it absorbs heat or cold and stores it very well for long periods of time. This can be useful when designing your plans small inexpensive home for passive solar heating. A dark wall in a position to get lots of sun during the days in winter will soak up that heat all day, and throw it off into the air all night.
Earthbags are another useful technique to have at your disposal when making plans small inexpensive home. As you might have guessed, they are just burlap or some similar type of bags filled with highly compressed dirt, which is important to prevent settling from occurring. Earthbags can be used as a floor base to be covered with a layer of cob and then plaster. Any gaps between bags can be smoothed over beautifully this way. Barbed wire is sometimes used between the bags to help keep them in place, which is very effective. Stem walls built on top of the foundation of your choice are extremely stable.
The benefits of these different techniques are numerous. From an environmental standpoint there is little to no pollution when your house is finally demolished, since the bulk of the structure built using these techniques initially came from the build site itself. In fact, many people have built small homes like this themselves with the help of friends and family. Do some research and you’ll find that methods will be effective in helping you make plans small inexpensive home.
Mobile Home Loan Default – Repossession Or Foreclosure?
January 20th, 2012
Scenario:
My mother has taken a mobile home loan for a property in Florida. She has another home in South Carolina. Her husband has passed away last summer and for the past 3 months she hasn’t been able to afford the payments. What will happen if she’s unable to pay off the mobile home loan and allows the home to be repossessed? What’s the difference between a repossession and foreclosure? Can the mortgage company put a lien on the other house? What if she sells the other house first? Can they go after the proceeds? Can the company go after her social security money and retirement savings?
Solution:
If the mobile home is a personal property bought from a dealer, and the owner is unable to pay off the mobile home loan (personal property loan), then the dealer (or creditor) will simply repossess property. Repossession means that the creditor will take over the ownership and sell off the home at a public auction.
If the sale price isn’t enough to cover the unpaid debt, then the mobile home owner has to pay it off as he owes the debt. Now, in the situation stated above, your mother has taken out a mobile home mortgage loan and not a personal property loan. So, the home will not be repossessed, rather it will be foreclosed if she is unable to pay off the mobile home loan and doesn’t qualify for a workout plan.
Since your mother couldn’t pay for the past 3 months, therefore she should have a straight talk with the mortgage company. I suppose the company hasn’t contacted her yet with a Notice of Default, so there’s still some time left for her to send a hardship letter and request for an alternative payment plan.
However, if your mother gets a Notice of Default and fails to repay the dues within the specified time period, then company may declare a foreclosure. If your mother fails to negotiate with the company for a workout plan, then the latter will sell off the mobile home through foreclosure sale. And, if the company is not able to recover enough proceeds from the sale, then it may ask for payment of the deficiency amount.
If your mother fails to pay the deficiency amount, the company may file a deficiency judgment and get an order issued by the court. If she still doesn’t pay it or is unable to pay it, then a lien may be placed on the property in South Carolina (SC). But in order to place this lien, the mortgage company will have to seek a sister-judgment. This means that the company will try to get a judgment in SC based on the Florida judgment even though it may not have a license in SC.
If your mother sells the SC property first, there’s a chance that the mortgage company may come after the proceeds provided the latter receives the sister-judgment from that state. The mortgage company cannot place a lien on your mother’s Social Security (SS) check as SS is protected from such liens. As for the retirement savings, the mortgage company may ask your mother to liquidate the entire savings in order to repay the loan but this depends upon the laws in the state of Florida.


