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I'm looking into buying a home in May 2013 and want to have everything in order before getting a loan approval. My question is, if I want to buy a home for $285,000.00 and I have $10,000.00 for down payment, would that down payment include the closing costs? Do I have to have the 3.5% down for FHA and also closing costs or is it all included in your down payment? Thanks in advance for your help.
That down payment would just cover your down payment, you still need to cover closing costs. you can take negative points to help cover them.
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That 10,000 would cover your downpayment as 285,000 x 3.5% = 9975,
ask the seller for closing help which would usually be around 3% but I'd ask for full closing help
so that you don't have to come out of YOUR pocket.
If you only ask for closing costs you will end up paying money at closing. Make sure you ask for X% to cover closing costs AND pre-paid expenses (to cover your pre-paid interest and your escrows and insurance expense)
@StartingOver10 wrote:If you only ask for closing costs you will end up paying money at closing. Make sure you ask for X% to cover closing costs AND pre-paid expenses (to cover your pre-paid interest and your escrows and insurance expense)
If you ask for X to cover closing AND pp expenses, do you still only have to come up with 3.5% or would asking for those items effectively lower your downpayment by the sum of those credits? if approved of course.
You still have to put down 3.5% regardless.
Figured that. Thanks.
The maxiumum percentage allowed by FHA for sellers' contribution is 6% of purchase price.
Check with your lender but normally the closing expenses are in the neighborhood of 3.5% to 4% of purchase price in addition to the 3.5% down payment.