Many real estate buyers have experienced great difficulty in completing their home purchase over the last few years, due to a lender side issue other than the normal credit and job confirmation issues. I have seen many potential home buyers with credit scores over 700, and a steady employment history, get turned down for financing altogether. We can trace all of these problems back to banks and their hesitancy to loan based on current market conditions.
Their Logic
Loaning money in a slow market is not as easy as loaning it in a busy market, so wait until it is busier to loan? The idea here is this, the banks are making borrowing money difficult because they have essentially free money from the government with rates for banks at.5%, then they turn around and loan it at “historic lows” for about a 4-5% per year pure profit. They are taking taxpayer dollars for free, turning around and loaning them for 4-5 points per year back to the same taxpayers they initially got the money from.
Doing their homework and realizing that there will be over 88 million new home buyers hitting the housing market, as reported by the census bureau, banks will be buoyed by the first time home buyers and new investors seeking to retire some day. The banking industry lobbyists in Washington D.C. have been working overtime to get any and all legislation passed that will allow the banks to do whatever they want in the real estate industry.
The Solution To Our Banking Problem
Before banks were global corporations, the home owner would actually fund the home sale. That is right, the home owner simply allowed the buyer to pay them off over time, interest accruing of course, until the debt was paid in full. Not only is this a great way to buy property, but it may be the easiest way to sell it as well.
Let us just say you have to purchase a lot and save up the rest of the money to build it, you are way ahead of the game than if you would have borrowed through a bank. When you total up all the added fees and the interest payment banks will collect, and the insurance that you have to buy for them to make the loan, it really seems like you are the one risking instead of them.
The simple solution is for Americans to be patient and not purchase a home until they have at least 20% saved up, then buy land. Owning the land yourself will always make building your home much easier to finance. Getting back to a frugal mindset that values cash more than materialistic possessions will help you appreciate your money a lot more, and help you grow it more than anything.
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