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Get a Mortgage with Poor Credit
Getting a mortgage with poor credit can be difficult. What with the credit crunch and lenders restricting their underwriting criteria its important for potential borrowers with poor credit get proper advice from mortgage brokers who understand the sub prime mortgage market
One of the many misconceptions about getting a mortgage with poor credit is that people simply cant get one! Many people simply assume that if they have poor credit they wont get a mortgage approved - this isn't the case.
Whilst there are fewer lenders for borrowers with poor credit there are still lenders available with mortgage products tailored to cater for poor credit applicants.
The first step in getting a mortgage with poor credit
One of the first things a person should do is contact a specialist broker, especially as mortgages are getting harder to obtain - a specialist broker should know and understand the potential downfalls of borrowing with adverse credit and be able to instruct the borrower accordingly.
On certain occasions it may be preferable to get hold of your credit report before contacting a broker but, as the credit report will mean little a borrower in relation to how poor credit could affect a mortgage its usually better to let the broker instruct a lender or mortgage packager to obtain a credit report. This will save time as you wont have to wait to get a copy of the report yourself. If you want to get a copy of your credit report which you can pass onto your broker it certainly wont slow anything down but the broker will usually still need to let a lender conduct their own credit search and there's no guarantee the lender will apply to the same credit reference agency as you did - meaning your credit report could hold different information so in general its best to let the lender conduct the report as needed - there are three credit reference agencies a lender can approach.
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