“What I Learned from Almost Buying a House”
Freemoneyfinance.com has a very informative and enlightening post that details the author’s experience when he almost bought a house — the deal never went through. The post reveals how the author locked in on the lowest possible rate, negotiated his closing costs, and received a discount on his homeowner’s insurance:
We got a very low mortgage rate by pitting two different lenders against each other (one a bank and one a mortgage broker). I knew both guys and was upfront with them throughout our process that we would 1. give them both an option to bid on the mortgage and 2. select the lowest bidder. I went back and forth a couple times — with them lowering rates (initially) then closing costs and other criteria (like them escrowing for taxes — something I didn’t want) — before one cried “uncle.”
