Finance With Foss Podcast: Recent Episodes
Justus Foss
Welcome to the Finance With Foss Podcast Channel. In this, I host multiple different shows under the Finance With Foss name. Office Hours is a show where I talk through recent news and information from the mortgage and real estate space. In the Evolution Real Estate Podcast, co-host Scott Ebel and I explore topics related to Real Estate and Mortgage aimed at first time home buyers, Realtors, Loan Officers and anyone involved in Real Estate or investing in Real Estate. Mortgage Minute are quick hitting mortgage tidbits and information.
mortgage #education Welcome to the Mortgage Minute series, where we educate and take the complicated perception of mortgages and empower you to make decisions future you will thank you for. Today's topic: what is a pre-approval?
mortgage #education
Welcome to the Mortgage Minute series, where we educate and take the complicated perception of mortgages and empower you to make decisions future you will thank you for. Today's topic: What is a pre-qualification?
mortgage #education
Welcome to the Mortgage Minute series, where we educate and take the complicated perception of mortgages and empower you to make decisions future you will thank you for. Today's topic: How to qualify for a mortgage?
mortgage #education
Welcome to the Mortgage Minute series, where we educate and take the complicated perception of mortgages and empower you to make decisions future you will thank you for. Today's topic: what is a mortgage?
mortgage #education
Welcome to the Mortgage Minute series, where we educate and take the complicated perception of mortgages and empower you to make decisions future you will thank you for. Today's topic: Series introduction.
Are you a first-time homebuyer or someone with a lot of mortgage questions? This might just be the video for you with my top 15 most asked questions along with a bonus question on gift funds. Watch the whole video or skip ahead to your specific question and let me know if you want either additional information or have a complete separate question to what was answered here!
- 00:00 - Introduction
- 00:53 - Question 1 - Do I need great credit to get a mortgage?
- 01:44 - Question 2 - How much do I need for a down payment?
- 02:59 - Question 3 - Closing costs? How much should I expect them to be?
- 03:28 - Question 4 - Fixed rate vs adjustable rate mortgage
- 04:52 - Question 5 - When should I lock my interest rate?
- 05:38 - Question 6 - What type of mortgage is best for me?
- 06:43 - Question 7 - What are discount points? Should I pay for them?
- 07:59 - Question 8 - 15 year loan vs 30 year loan
- 09:39 - Question 9 - What documents do I need?
- 10:52 - Question 10 - What is a pre-qualification?
- 11:54 - Question 11 - What is a pre-approval?
- 13:48 - Question 12 - What is an escrow account?
- 14:33 - Question 13 - Why does it take so long to close a mortgage?
- 15:35 - Question 14 - How is my mortgage payment determined?
- 16:53 - Question 15 - Will my monthly payments change during the loan?
- 17:37 - Bonus - How do I handle gift money?
Student loan forgiveness: Biden cancels $10K in student loans, extends forbearance to the end of the year.
A question from my video about the recent Fed Rate hike, had a question from Realtor Joe Gattone from Chicagoland, IL who asked, "Hey! good stuff dude. Can you explain how the Fed Rate is NOT directly tired to mortgage rates?". We take a quick look into this and what the Federal Reserve actually influences.
The Federal Reserve just raised the interest rates again here in July, what does that mean for you if you're looking to purchase a home? 00:00 - Introduction
- 00:18 - Fed increases rates
- 01:13 - What's next?
- 01:33 - Background on the Fed
- 01:59 - What does this mean for you?
- 02:22 - Closing
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Staying up with the ever changing Real Estate market by going over the realty of today’s Real Estate market with buying pressure, interest rates and utilizing the recast to make a non-contingent offer.
In this episode, Scott and Justus address the local Twin Cities market by reviewing data over the past week and discuss the future market conditions that we could see in 2022.
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- 00:00 - Intro Video
- 00:15 - Start of Episode
- 02:08 - Thank You to Veterans
- 03:23 - I'm just like you, the first-time homebuyer fixes
- 05:08 - Twin Cities Local Market Update
- 11:56 - Powell Update for Future Market Conditions
- 13:30 - 2022 Fannie & Freddie Conforming Loan Limit
- 16:39 - Keep Shopping During the Winter Months
In this episode, Scott and Justus address the local Twin Cities market by reviewing data over the past week and past couple of months along with the NEW increased conforming loan limits for 2022. Justus' topic of the day is about gift funds while Scott discusses the new Omicron virus and how that could affect the market. Then, Scott and Justus talk about how winter can affect home buying in Minnesota and why it might not be a bad idea to keep your eyes open for a good deal on a property during the offseason of the home buying market. You can find this podcast on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and all of your typical podcast apps!
- 00:00 - Intro Video
- 00:15 - Start of Episode
- 00:46 - Twin Cities Local Market Update
- 10:15 - 2022 Fannie & Freddie Conforming Loan Limit Increases Conversation
- 11:32 - 2022 Fannie & Freddie Conforming Loan Limit Increases Chart
- 11:51 - 2016-2022 Fannie & Freddie Conforming Loan Limit Increases Chart
- 14:03 - Gift Money Information on how to handle it for mortgage underwriting
- 15:56 - Omicron Coronavirus and Real Estate
- 19:01 - Winter is coming; What does it mean for Real Estate?
In this episode, Scott and Justus due the usual, intro the podcast, talk through the newly added local market update segment, talk about the two interesting topics which include VA buyers knowing about their VA eligibility certificate and condo purchases using government loans such as VA and FHA needing to have the association on an approved list to use that financing. They then start right up from the last podcast, now that a home purchase offer is accepted, what happens next? They take you down the road from getting your home offer accepted to the actual closing.
VA buyers need to get VA eligibility certificate for mortgage:
https://www.va.gov/housing-assistance/home-loans/how-to-apply/
https://www.ebenefits.va.gov/ebenefits/homepage
Government loans/FHA Condos and how they’re different from normal:
https://entp.hud.gov/idapp/html/condlook.cfm
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In this episode, Scott and Justus explain the importance of getting pre-approved before home shopping and why address specific pre-approvals have more weigh compared to generic pre-approvals. They then dive into the scheduled on tent of the "New Buyer Client Process/Experience" from before starting the process up to making an offer. The next episode will explore going from the accepted offer to the closing. You can find this podcast on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and all of your typical podcast apps!
In this episode, Scott and Justus explain the podcast, the layout and direction. They then break down two interesting things that happened in the last week which include getting to clear to close and avoid credit mistakes along with missing payments when a future buyer was selling her home. Then the main topics for the episode has Scott diving into Realtor Agency and Justus explaining how Agency works in the mortgage world followed by better explaining how Realtors and Loan Officers are paid.