With 20 per cent down, most rental property applications will be approved
with conventional guidelines, so it will ultimately come down to the lender's policy.
The trade - off for having a down payment of less than 20 percent is that the client will have to pay PMI; however, unlike an FHA, this loan follows
standard conventional guidelines and mortgage insurance payments eventually end.
It could be because; your loan amount
exceeds conventional guidelines (jumbo), the house does not qualify, no down payment, high debt ratios, credit history issues, or you could be self employed and don't show enough income to qualify.
One of the good things about
current conventional guidelines is they allow qualified borrowers to buy or refinance in as little as two years after a short sale so long as they have a 20 % down payment or 20 % equity in the case of a refinance.
The conventional guideline of drinking eight glasses of water a day has proven to be a myth.
Specifically,
every conventional guideline I've been told says «lower saturated fats» but this diet seems to urge more saturated fat.
Note that the condo must meet FHA or
conventional guidelines if you want to use those types of financing.
That's a huge advantage to the investor because if for some reason their loan doesn't fall within the «box» of
conventional guidelines, these Lenders can still approve the loan and keep the loan in their portfolio.
For example,
the conventional guidelines may say that for a cash - out refinance the borrower's debt to income ratio can not exceed 45 %.
FHA guidelines are far more flexible than
Conventional guidelines.
This is why we have
conventional guidelines and they are a big deal, those are the minimum set of guidelines a loan must have in order to be sold to FNMA / FMCC and those GSEs pool the loans into securities and sell to the public.