As a Renovation financing Loan Officer, I’m excited to have access to a VA Renovation mortgage for Veterans and Active Duty Military that now allows multi-unit properties as well … Read More
Mixed Use 2 – 4 Unit Purchase Mortgage with FHA 203K
Recently we have been speaking to a number of Buyers looking to purchase and/or renovate a property with a store front commercial or retail space and one or more apartments … Read More
CHOICERenovation – New Rehab Loan by Freddie Mac
I wanted to write a short post on the new conventional renovation mortgage by Freddie Mac called CHOICERenovation. In the past I have written about another conventional renovation loan called … Read More
Renovating Chicago’s Southside – One Home at a Time with FHA 203k & Fannie Mae HomeStyle Renovation Loans
I have been writing my renovation blog, “Rehab Dollars & Sense” for 5 years now. Today I wanted to take time to focus on Chicago’s Southside and relate what I … Read More
Renovation Loans- 1 Loan, 1 Payment, 1 Dream Home
As a Loan Officer with many years experiences working with clients who buy and renovate homes, I’m an evangelist for renovation loans in that I have seen how they can … Read More
Examples of How to Finance a Home Purchase & Renovation
Here on New Year’s day I thought it would be helpful to write about how my clients have financed home or investment property purchases and renovations this past year. Doing … Read More
Convert a 2 Unit Property into a Single Family Home – Financing Options
I have been asked what types of construction financing might be possible to buy and rehab a 2 unit or duplex type property, or as they are known in Chicago, … Read More
Rehabbers – Looking for Alternatives to Hard Money Lenders ?
Across the country I have heard stories of small or new real estate investors who are perhaps buying their first property or might have done a few rehabs with their … Read More
Need Funds to Renovate your Mixed-Use Building – FHA 203k May Help You
Around the country, often in cities or nearby suburbs there are properties built in the past containing a store front type commercial or retail space and perhaps behind or above, … Read More
Home Renovation Loans May Both Help You and The Neighborhood
For some time, I have been helping clients finance their home renovation projects with a number of renovation mortgage types including HomeStyle*, FHA 203k and more recently the VA Home … Read More