What happens at closing?

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Jeff Thomas
Mortgage Advisor, Family Lender
www.lendingsolutions.net  
703-830-9808

Jeff Thomas is a Mortgage Advisor and Financial Educator with Family Lender, Inc. located in Fairfax, Virginia. Jeff has seen the mortgage business change significantly in the 15 years he has been in the business. Changes such zero down loans, to relaxed underwriting guidelines to borrowing more than the house is actually worth on a purchase or refinance transaction. 

With the changes in the mortgage industry, Jeff has had to make changes in the way he performs his job. Jeff originally thought he was a loan originator, but after realizing the positive impact he could have on other peoples lives he made some basic adjustments to his business and now sees his position and career as a financial educator.

By taking the time upfront to get to know the people he serves, Jeff has been able to positively impact and improve the lives of the people he works with by providing relevant and timely advice. . This assistance comes in many forms, from insurance to painting to helping interview the right retirement professional. This core group of professionals allows Jeff to concentrate on providing the right advice for each person he works with.

Jeff is one of 200 people in the country that is both a Certified Mortgage Planning Specialist – CMPS and a Certified Liability Advisor – CLA. Jeff recently co-authored a book with Todd Ballinger, called “Borrow Smart Retire Rich”.  The principles addressed in the book will be covered throughout the video. 

Jeff hopes you gain insight on how to purchase and finance a home and hopefully you will find your time well spent and walk away with some information you did not know before.  Jeff Thomas, Where Advice Does Make A Difference!

 

What happens at closing?

In this video, mortgage advisor, Jeff Thomas describes how to purchase your first home and the process you must go through to obtain a mortgage. This video is designed for first time homebuyers and also provides valuable information to indivduals who have purchased a home in the past. This video includes an overview of the four parts of a loan file, mortgage jargon, the loan process, house hunting, the types of mortgages available and the 7 steps on how to manage your mortgage correctly.

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Host: What happens at closing? Jeff Thomas: Closing is kind of scary to some people, because they are actually signing a lot of documents. But what happens at closing, is you are going to sit down with the title company and you are going to have your agent and you and you are going to have the seller and the seller's agent, if there is any real estate agent involved. There are three main documents that in my opinion you are going to sign, you are going to sign a copy of the HUD-1 or Settlement statement. This document anybody can pick it up and understand exactly what happened during this transaction, they'll know how much money you needed to bring, they'll know how much the seller neted when they sold the house. In the next document it's going to be your Deed, and that's going to tell everybody that you are buying this piece of property and the third most important one is going to be your Note and that's going to let you know, you are going to make x number of payments for x number of years. If you have an adjustable rate mortgage, there is going to be an addendum to the Note that's going to say, okay these are the terms of your Adjustable Rate Note and if you have an Interest Only or an Interest First Note you'll have an addendum to that showing exactly what the terms of the interest only period of the mortgage are.

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