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> 3% down
>Interest rate 0.25% lower than the average
>No PMI
>The total monthly housing costs including Mortgage, Taxes and Insurance cant exceed 33% of your monthly GROSS income
>Total monthly payments including the above plus car payments and CC payments cant exceed 38% of your monthly GROSS income
>You need to have a credit score above 660 (no difference between a 661 and an 850)
> For first time homebuyers primary residence only (no refinance or investment houses, no cosigner)
>Basement Rental does not count as income
> You need to to take a few hours of new homebuyer counseling which LRRC offers for $30- contact them for when their next class is

You need to have impeccable paperwork in order to be able to get it, the underwriting departments are very very strict.

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Domenick  Luccarelli
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732-639-3309
> 3% down
>Interest rate lower than the average
>There is PMI unless your credit score is above 720 and then no PMI
>The total monthly housing costs including Mortgage, Taxes and Insurance cant exceed 40% of your monthly GROSS income
> For first time homebuyers primary residence only (no refinance or investment houses
>You CAN have a cosigner


Santanders Bank
Santander has a first time homeowners mortgage that you can have up to 45% DTI ratio. plus they give you $5k towards closing (to be able to get the 5k closing grant you have to make almost no money, i think its around 43k limit for a family of 2) costs plus your rate is .25 lower then the going rate

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #240 on: July 28, 2014, 02:25:17 AM »
im looking to apply for a mortgage thru this program... has anyone out there gone thru this program that can help me out with a few questions I have regarding income req. if you can please PM me it would be a big help for me.... (LRRC is impossible to get thru to!!) Thanks!
Go down there. I found them real helpful.

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #241 on: July 28, 2014, 02:26:25 PM »
Go down there. I found them real helpful.
keep on calling and going down there and they keep on pushing me off....

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #242 on: July 28, 2014, 03:00:34 PM »
keep on calling and going down there and they keep on pushing me off....
Someone posted upthread a website on which you can take the required training programs.
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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #243 on: July 28, 2014, 03:24:31 PM »
keep on calling and going down there and they keep on pushing me off....
The executive director was just niftera... They are generally very difficult to get hold of...
Why not post your questions, maybe someone knows...?

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #244 on: July 28, 2014, 04:53:09 PM »
More bad news :(   as you can tell I am very busy with this trying to get a mortgage thru TD so I can get this really great intrest rate of 2.6%  anyway just hung up with Dennis from TD who informed me that they AGAIN lowered the gross income to 55,000!! Which means if you are making more than that a year you will not be eligible for this particular program. .. (a few weeks ago it was 77k !!!)

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #245 on: July 28, 2014, 05:11:36 PM »
More bad news :(   as you can tell I am very busy with this trying to get a mortgage thru TD so I can get this really great intrest rate of 2.6%  anyway just hung up with Dennis from TD who informed me that they AGAIN lowered the gross income to 55,000!! Which means if you are making more than that a year you will not be eligible for this particular program. .. (a few weeks ago it was 77k !!!)
Oh gosh!!!!!

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #246 on: July 28, 2014, 05:13:07 PM »
More bad news :(   as you can tell I am very busy with this trying to get a mortgage thru TD so I can get this really great intrest rate of 2.6%  anyway just hung up with Dennis from TD who informed me that they AGAIN lowered the gross income to 55,000!! Which means if you are making more than that a year you will not be eligible for this particular program. .. (a few weeks ago it was 77k !!!)
I wonder what causes the income limits to decrease?
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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #247 on: July 28, 2014, 05:17:36 PM »
How can anybody making 55k or less a year afford to pay a mortgage?

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #248 on: July 28, 2014, 05:28:31 PM »
How can anybody making 55k or less a year afford to pay a mortgage?
I guess they can afford an $800 mortgage.
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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #249 on: July 28, 2014, 05:30:53 PM »

How can anybody making 55k or less a year afford to pay a mortgage?
People have money not on the books. Aka support etc...

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #250 on: July 28, 2014, 05:34:23 PM »
People have money not on the books. Aka support etc...
I understand I mean in theory if you have a wife and kid or two you cant afford too much on 55k obviously off the books ppl could be doing anything eg: half the ppl on HUD in lakewood

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #251 on: July 28, 2014, 05:35:03 PM »
People have money not on the books. Aka support etc...
His question was not realistically rather from the banks perspective IMHO.
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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #252 on: July 28, 2014, 06:29:06 PM »
I wonder what causes the income limits to decrease?
The bank is practically eliminating the program while still being able to sell themselves on how they have great community development, help the poor, minorities etc.  >:(

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #253 on: July 28, 2014, 06:30:06 PM »
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The bank is practically eliminating the program while still being able to sell themselves on how they have great community development, help the poor, minorities etc.  >:(
    >:( indeed.
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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #254 on: July 28, 2014, 06:31:07 PM »
How can anybody making 55k or less a year afford to pay a mortgage?
The total housing payments cant be more than 33% of income. Basically talking about homes for 250ish..

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #255 on: July 28, 2014, 06:32:21 PM »
The total housing payments cant be more than 33% of income. Basically talking about homes for 250ish..
There are many of those in Jersey, the bummer is that it needs to be the primary residence.
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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #256 on: July 28, 2014, 07:17:10 PM »
TD has another option with a 3.55% rate.  There is no income cap as long as the home is in a moderate to low income area.  Most of Lakewood is categorized as such.  You still have a 33% ratio for PITI payments,  although the backend is stretched to 41%.

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #257 on: July 28, 2014, 08:31:26 PM »
TD has another option with a 3.55% rate.  There is no income cap as long as the home is in a moderate to low income area.  Most of Lakewood is categorized as such.  You still have a 33% ratio for PITI payments,  although the backend is stretched to 41%.
when I spoke to TD they told me about this option ( seems like they are pushing it ...) they mentioned that the rate would be 3.425 (with a td account) my question is if this is also considered a great deal or is it close to what other banks are offering without going through first time home buyers option? ?

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #258 on: July 28, 2014, 11:08:45 PM »
when I spoke to TD they told me about this option ( seems like they are pushing it ...) they mentioned that the rate would be 3.425 (with a td account) my question is if this is also considered a great deal or is it close to what other banks are offering without going through first time home buyers option? ?
Dunno but definitely speak to Santander to compare, they also have a first time program....

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Re: Lakewood: Awesome Mortgage program for 1st time buyers
« Reply #259 on: July 28, 2014, 11:35:59 PM »
Dunno but definitely speak to Santander to compare, they also have a first time program....
does santander offer competitive rates or they  just let you put down 5% for a down payment? (cuz by me I don't really need the 5% down payment , I just want a low intrest rate)