Homebuyers: Find out what you're REALLY paying before you sign for your new home.

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Three documents that are crucial to the home buying transaction give both the seller and the buyer a better fix on virtually all costs they can expect to face during the ordeal. This includes everything from the appraisal fee to the underwriter's portion of the title insurance -- as well as a sort of manual to understand how it all works -- the documents make it easier to calculate, compare and question all the costs associated with the home buying ordeal.

  • 1. Under the federal Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (RESPA), since Jan. 1, 2010, your mortgage broker or lender must give you the mandated Good Faith Estimate (GFE) within three days of accepting your application. It shows the loan terms and the settlement charges you will pay if you decide to go forward with a given mortgage. It explains which charges can change before settlement and which charges must remain the same.

  • 2. At closing, the lender must provide borrowers with the new Settlement Statement HUD-1, the final line-by-line list of mortgage and closing costs. It is a complete and final list of all your charges and credits. In addition to the cost of the property, your down payment, the financed amount, your monthly payment, and loan terms. It includes your loan type, annual percentage rate (APR), points, commissions, yield spread premiums, originating fees and other loan costs as well as title and escrow fees, closing costs, tax and insurance payments, inspection fees, attorney fees, and information and costs related to rate locks and prepayment penalties -- the works.

  • 3. Along with the GFE, you'll also receive the new "Shopping For Your Home Loan: HUD's Settlement Cost Booklet" a guidebook to walk you through the other two documents.
Download the first 2 documents and get these documents online anytime, especially before you are in the thick of buying or selling a home in today's market. Getting familiar with the documents now, can save a lot of headaches later.

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