- Borrowers can have low credit scores, but have to go through an education session about the program and submit all necessary documents, from income statements to phone bills.
- They must go through counseling to understand their monthly budget and ensure they can afford the mortgage payment.
- The loans are 15- or 30-year fixed with interest rates below market, about 4.5 percent.
Magdalene Altidor lost her home to foreclosure during the subprime mortgage crisis, but this week she was first in line at a four-day event in Miami where borrowers with poor credit were offered no-down payment, low interest rate loans.
“I left home, it was about 4 a.m.,” she laughed. “I’m ready to purchase a home.”
The event is one of several being held in cities across America this year, run by the nonprofit, Boston-based brokerage Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America, or NACA.
“It’s a national disgrace about the low amount of homeownership, mortgages for low- and moderate-income people and for minority homebuyers,” said Bruce Marks, CEO of NACA. “In the loans that we’ve originated in the past 6 years, zero foreclosures.”
www.cnbc.com/2018/10/12/thousands-line-up-for-zero-down-payment-subprime-mortgages.html