Chicago is the largest city in the state of Illinois and also the third most populated city in the United States of America, with almost 3 million people. Chicago is located along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan and when combined with its suburbs and the nine surrounding counties in Illinois, the metropolitan area known as Chicagoland encompasses a population of 9.4 million. Nowadays Chicago is known as a major transportation, business, and architectural center of the US and it is the economic, business, financial and cultural capital of the Midwest. The Chicago area is moderately expensive; the home price median here is nearer the national median than homes in spots such as New York City. Buyers can probably spend about three times their incomes, depending on the part of the area where they’re house-hunting.
Chicago’s suburban real estate market is as vibrant as the city itself. The suburbs have developed both commercial as well as residential real estate at a tremendous pace. A large number of properties are always available for purchase in Chicago’s suburban areas such as Lake County, Kane and DeKalb counties and DuPage and Will counties. There are real estate firms that specialize in one of the suburbs, while others deal with all of them. When financing a new home in Chicago, have in mind that the real estate prices are high. Northern suburbs are considered “elite”.
There are many ways to finance a new home in Chicago. It all depends on your credit history, the price of the property and your income. The next paragraphs give brief explanations on some of the methods for financing a new home in the city of Chicago.
The first thing to understand is the difference between a variable, or adjustable interest rate mortgage and a fixed rate mortgage. With a fixed rate mortgage, the monthly payments remain the same over the period of the loan. The adjustable rate mortgage has a lower introductory interest rate, but it may vary over the duration of your loan. So depending on the interest rates, whether they are lowered or raised each month, your monthly mortgage payments will also change accordingly.
When financing your new Chicago home through a loan, no matter if it is adjustable or fixed rate, you have to consider the length of the loan, in terms of how long you finance your home. The most common terms are 15, 25, 30, 40 and now even 50 year mortgages in some areas. Of course, the longer the period the more you will pay in interest over the duration of the loan.
With a FHA home loan you can purchase a single family home, condo, house, or apartment in one of the neighborhoods in Chicago. This FHA home loan is mostly used by first time home buyers because it allows the purchase of a home with a lower down payment, in some cases as low as 3%. This form of new home financing requires you to have a good credit history and enough income to cover the loan and your other financial obligations.
The Chicago City Mortgage program offers qualified first-time homebuyers 30-year, fixed-interest mortgages at competitive interest rates and a gift of 4 percent of the mortgage amount to cover down payment and closing costs.
One of the most important things to do when searching for a way to finance the purchase of a new home is to do the math and find out how much money you can spend on it each month. The rule is that all of your housing costs each month, including house note, property taxes and insurance cannot exceed 29% of your gross monthly income. In addition to that, your housing costs plus your other monthly long-term debt should not exceed 41% of your gross monthly income. Furthermore, you must get a copy of your credit report and check your credit score. Having a bad credit score, or one lower than 580, means that you will have problems with obtaining the loan in the first place, not to mention that you will be forced into paying higher interest rates.
Dave Badge
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Where can I find auto financing in Chicago for people with HORRIBLE credit?
I need to buy a car immediately for a new job and I have horrible credit. Does anyone know where I can go. I have $1000 to put down been renting my home for 2 years and at my job for 2 1/2 years. I’m looking for a cheap used car or a cheap new one.
You will be able to find a loan, but the interest rate will astronomical. Call your local car dealers, they have programs for people with bad credit
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I was in the same sitaution 10 years ago.
Sounds like Buy Here Pay Here would be your best bet, you can usually find those dealers in the paper or the yellow pages, but be forewarned, your are going to pay at least %18 interest and probably more like %21. Don’t do it unless you can afford to make double payments on the car or if you plan on getting your credit back in decent shape within a year or so. Once you establish a decent credit history you can refinance and get a more realistic rate, something like %8.
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Look in the papers and find one that is in your CASH range, In a year or so finance one. It sounds like you should get your credit straight before you go for a loan
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Locally, we have dealers that have "credit amnesty" programs where they don’t even run your credit. Your job is your credit. So you might want to find out if any dealer in your area has a similar program.
$1000 down is not enough for a new car. You may need to put down as much as 50%. But as long as you haven’t filed for bankruptcy or had repossession in the past 3 years, a dealer should be able to find a lender for you. But like I said, you’ll probably need 50% down.
Best is to buy a used car at least until your credit improves and you establish some time at your new job…. I bought a 15 year old Honda Accord w/ 200k miles for $900 once. It was one of the best used cars I’ve ever owned. Drove it 25,000 miles in one year without a single problem…. and also got 40mpg to boot.
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