Buying Florida

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  • Buying Flipping and Real Estate Recommendations

    This episode welcomes a guest co-host, Florida Realtor, David Zusman and covered in this episode is:


    Buyers Hesitations - Concerns of a Recession

    Flipping a Property

    Is it a Good Time to Purchase a Home

    Recommendations for Buyers When it Comes to Offers

    The Importance of a Pre-Approval Letter

    What's Happening in the Month of October - Inventory

    58 min
  • Who Do You Go To For A Mortgage?
    1. Do you shop online?
    2. Do you go with a referral, someone in the community?
    3. Is it from a realtor, friend, or someone from your work
    4. What are questions to ask when getting rates and costs
    5. Are they 9 to 5 and does it matter?
    6. Will they attend the closing? Is there any value to that?
    7. Is ti a one time deal or a partner for life?


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    19 min
  • What are the Funds to Close
    Funds to close on a home:

    1. How much down do you need?
    2. Fund down for fha, va, conventional and non qm loans
    3. Down payment assistance - how does that work
    4. Where are the funds coming from
    5. The ground - pillow - 
    6. Gift from a family member
    7. 401k
    8. Checking, savings, stocks?
    9. Seasoning - what does that mean
    10. How can you preplan in order to purchase a home
    11. Weird deposits, is that good?
    16 min
  • Sources of Funds to Close
    1. Downpayment - what is available
    2. Down payment assistance
    3. Borrower from your 401k
    4. Gift of funds from a family
    5. Funds have to be paper trailed
    6. Seasoning for 2 months
    13 min
  • How Do You Get Credit?
    1. Graduating high school - what do you do?
    2. Bad things happen to good people , what do you do?
    3. What causes low credit scores and what can you do?
    4. How does the credit score scale work?
    5. Does it affect the rate and your monthly PMI if you put less than 20% down?
    22 min
  • Appraisals
    1. When do you order an appraisal?
    2. What happens if the value is higher, the same or lower?
    3. If it is lower than what can you do?
    4. Is there a solution and how does it affect conventional,fha and va?
    5. Appraisal waivers and how does that work?
    6. Is this something that will continue to expand the appraisal waiver and how does it affect us


    Get all of these questions answered and MORE!
    18 min
  • Non QM Loans on the Rise
    1.  What is a non QM loan and how does it differ from a QM Loan
    2. Does it apply to owner occupied homes, second homes and investor home?
    3. What type of programs are their
    4. Why would someone need a non QM loan
    5. Is it growing from previous years - 
    6. Is it comparable to sub prime was over 10 years ago?
    7. Is it a good loan for the consumer?
    8. Do you like doing them?
    9. What do you see in the future regarding this product
    28 min
  • Tailor Making Your Refinance
    1. Rates are coming down
    2. Do we just go for savings or do you switch gears and look at reducing the term
    3. How can we taylor make our refinance - just a 10-15-30 year?
    4. What about the interest rate
    5. What about debt consolidation
    6. Kids student loans due for payments, addition to the home, consolidate credit card debt
    7. What are the benefits putting it all in one loan vs paying everyone else
    8. Are you making the right move?
    22 min

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Didier Malagies is the owner of DDA Mortgage and has been a leader in the Tampa Bay Mortgage industry, serving Pinellas, Pasco and Hillsborough counties and beyond with his sights set on educating…