Recently, I’ve been getting a lot of calls from concerned sellers that are worried any potential buyer will not be able to get a home loan. If you watch the news every day, it certainly seems like the sky is falling, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is tougher to get a loan now because guidelines have tightened, but not because money isn’t available.

I recently read an article that gave a good example of this…imagine you owned a pizza shop in a college town. Every time you got an order from a residence, you made the pizza and delivered it. The customer that ordered it answered the door and paid you. That type of customer basically had no risk for the shop owner.
Now, imagine some guys in a fraternity house playing a trick on another house. They call the same pizza shop and order ten pies, and ask that they be delivered to their rivals next door. The pizzas are made and the driver is dispatched, only to be told at the door that no one ordered the pizzas. They have just wasted 10 pizzas that they didn’t get paid for.

So, as a result of the losses, the pizza shop decides to not accept anymore delivery orders from fraternity row. That would be a good business decision, right? In years past, the government has prevented the mortgage industry from making these risk-based decisions. They have demanded equal lending opportunities, whether the borrower was a good risk or not. Now, those high-risk loans are not available.
Since guidelines have been tightened, the only people who can buy homes now are the ones that are good credit risks. For those borrowers, money is abundant. The so-called credit crunch is affecting the ability to borrow for many items, but not homes. The lending industry has allowed people who really shouldn’t be buying homes to buy them, but no more. If it is a smart financial decision and you have a down payment and good credit, loans are still very easy to do.

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