Author Archives: Carl Pruitt

FHA mortgages are excellent tools which can be used to help many first time home buyers with no credit or past credit problems enter into the housing market. The "subprime" mortgage crisis going on now has resulted in a buyer's market and prices on homes for sale are lower while seller concessions are higher than they have been in years. Yet, most of the 100% financing conventional and subprime loan programs which were available to potential homeowners are long gone now. FHA is the only mortgage program available for quite a few prospective buyers to use to buy a home. Hundreds of thousands of homeowners who bought homes financed with subprime mortgages over the past few years now face huge interest rate adjustments of up to 5 percent or more. Spend 5 minutes watching a business news channel these days and it is easy to understand why these people believe they have no other mortgage options left. Continue reading →