Bad credit home loans will usually be a percent or two higher than the regular loan interest rates. Even then, depending on your circumstances for how you ended up with a bad credit rating, you may still not be able to find a lender. With all of the losses these days in the housing industry, the record of people walking away from homes etc, there are just not that many lenders that are willing to lend money to people with bad credit ratings. Bounced checks and checks that are refused due to insufficient funds are a big warning for any lender who is reviewing a loan application. Next are the pay-day loan lenders and other unscrupulous lenders that charge extremely high amounts of interest which are even higher than those charged by credit card companies.
If your bad credit rating is due to a missed payment or two, you may not be in that bad of shape. On the other hand if you walked away from a mortgage home loan and just stopped paying your monthly payments because the value of the home is a lot less than the value of the mortgage, your credit rating will reflect this and it may be a long time before you can find someone who will lend you money. They will want as a minimum, that you have at least 25 % equity in the home if not more before they will make a home loan. Who has a 25% down payment these days?
Lenders will request copies of your last bank statement. They are looking for records of income deposits and for checks written and denied with insufficient funds. This is a clear warning to them that there may be a larger problem. Make sure that your statement is pristine for several months before you apply for a loan. No checks bounced with insufficient funds, no late payment charges etc should appear. These are dead give aways to someone who has financial problems.
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one person we talked to had to pay $300 more a month because of his credit rating. this is really important to keep your credit rating up there and make sure that you pay all of your bills on time all of the time.