Qualifying for a Home Mortgage Loan

Mortgage interest rates vary depending on the characteristics of your special circumstances. In order to shop for the best deal you can find, you must be in a position to compare what you are offered in a logical manner.

On a Sheet of paper make a table with say 4 columns and write the name of the fist lender that you are calling at the top of the first column, the second one at the top of the second column and so forth.

On another sheet of paper write all the particulars of what you are looking for on separate lines. For example the type, fixed or adjustable and if adjustable what kind, the dollar amount, whether stated income or fully documented, cash out refinance or rate and term refinance or purchase, your credit score and last but not least whether owner occupied or not.

Every factor listed above has an effect on mortgage interest rates, so don't leave anything out.At first glance this may seam like getting carried away, but the reality is that when shopping it is easy to leave one or two factors out that may very well make your comparison of mortgage rates useless.

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