Closing Check List

[BBYGRL]

Has anyone come up with a at closing check list.  I close in a couple of weeks and I want to make sure all of my ducks are in a row.  Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Bump, please? I'll bet that a LOT of people are dying to know this one!!!

[Anonymous]

I haven't always been successful getting answers in message boards, so I've been making my own binder full of online printouts on specific subjects, including closing checklists that I find via Google. 

I bought a book ($12.95) called "Home Closing Checklist" by Robert Irwin at Barnes and Noble - it's one of the more comprehensive resources on this topic and I highly recommend it as a very "easy to read" guide to closing.

I'm a first-time buyer, not an expert, but I've found these resources really helpful:

Contract Dates List (Acceptance, Loan Application, etc...)

HUD Guide to Buying a Home (lots of good information)

Buying Your Home: Settlement costs and Helpful information

Closing Checklist (short form)

There are also a number of good resources on Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) that I believe have information applicable to closing.

MyFico Guide to GFE

Message Edited by FICOScott on 01-08-2009 05:14 AM

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I haven't always been successful getting answers in message boards, so I've been making my own binder full of online printouts on specific subjects, including closing checklists that I find via Google. 

I bought a book ($12.95) called "Home Closing Checklist" by Robert Irwin at Barnes and Noble - it's one of the more comprehensive resources on this topic and I highly recommend it as a very "easy to read" guide to closing.

I'm a first-time buyer, not an expert, but I've found these resources really helpful:

Contract Dates List (Acceptance, Loan Application, etc...)

HUD Guide to Buying a Home (lots of good information)

Buying Your Home: Settlement costs and Helpful information

Closing Checklist (short form)

There are also a number of good resources on Good Faith Estimates (GFEs) that I believe have information applicable to closing.

MyFico Guide to GFE

Message Edited by FICOScott on 01-08-2009 05:14 AM

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W00t!! W00t!! We have an awesome answer!

I'm going out to go get the book now! We fricking NEED it!! o_O

Thanks, FicoScott!!

[BBYGRL]

Ditto!  Thansk FicoScott!

[Anonymous]

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@BBYGRL wrote:
Ditto!  Thansk FicoScott!

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I couldn't find that book in my local bookstores (since, it's not "cool," "hip" or "trendy" -- unless it's about decorating your home, they won't have it). But I did find a book called "Mortgages 101" that seems pretty good. Gives info on negotiating closing costs and what to expect at the table.

Has lots and lots of financial-mathematical type stuff, but that's okay -- I have a teenager who can explain it all to me!! LOL!!

So, if you can't find the book FicoScott suggested, "Mortgages 101" seems to be pretty decent. Most of the others that they did have ("Home-buying for Dummies," "The Everything Home-Buying Book," etc) seemed to be more about FINDING a home to buy than actually purchasing one.