Summer is coming to an end, school is back in session and the sidewalks are starting to disappear under a blanket of vibrant leaves. Morning takes a bit longer to appear and evening seems to show itself much sooner each day. Fall is in the air!
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Helping customers like you achieve their financial goals is all we do, which is why we’re arming you with our expert insight, tips, and advice to help you get there.
Capturing and Preserving Summer Memories
A Renovation Loan Can Help You Create Your Dream Home
Home is what you create in the place that you live. It isn’t always a brand new updated house. Sometimes it means you put in a little sweat equity to turn a house into your dream home.
Whether it’s a huge remodel project or a light fixer-upper, there are renovation home loans that can help you with that!
Loans to Help You Buy and Renovate a Fixer-Upper
Have you started dreaming about your perfect home? Maybe you found just the charmer you were looking for in that mid-town location but it’s a fixer upper and needs extra love and attention. The price might be within your range, but can you afford the costs of all the repairs and remodeling needed to turn it into your dream home? Good news for you - whether you’re a first-time homebuyer or looking to refinance or invest, American Pacific Mortgage has fixer upper home loans that can make purchasing and renovating a home an affordable option! These loans are called Renovation Loans.
10 Tips to preparing for a successful school year
The summer days are still long and warm, but there are the tell-tale signs of the waning days… school has either just started or is getting ready to start for kids all across the country. The first day of school is a one some parents look forward to with relish, while others dread. It can be tough to transition back to a more regimented schedule for both parents and kids. Getting back in the groove of packing lunches, restarting carpools for after-school activities, meeting new teachers and sitting down each night to help with homework can be stressful. Here’s a list of 10 things you can do to be sure you and your child feel mentally prepared for the new school year ahead:
Buying a home with student loan debt
Student loans can pose problems for many first-time home buyers trying to qualify for a home loan. This isn’t a news flash for most of us with student loan debt, but it also doesn’t have to mean the end of the road for the dream of homeownership.
Are There VA Jumbo Loans? Yes - Here’s How They Can Help You
As Veterans and Servicemembers, you have worked hard for our country and when you’re ready to embark upon or continue your homeownership journey, American Pacific Mortgage is happy to be able to give back to you through our VA Loans. You don’t want to miss taking advantage of all the benefits these loans have for you! In addition to flexible and lenient qualifying guidelines, other benefits include 100% financing when qualified and no mortgage insurance requirements.
10 Essentials for a great day at the beach!
Summer is here, the sun is out… and the beach is calling your name! A day in the sun splashing in the water is just what you need to recharge and reconnect with friends and family! Here are ten must haves and a few hacks to add to your packing list that are sure to make the day stress free and all about sand castles, splashing in the water and relaxing in the sun!
APM Moves Up In Rankings
We are proud to share that American Pacific Mortgage has moved up to #12 in the Scotsman Guide Top Mortgage Lender rankings, up two spaces from last year!
While we’re now licensed in 32 states, we achieved this honor while being licensed in just 26 states, whereas nearly every other top 15 Lender was licensed in all 50 states. With pending licenses in 5 more states we’re growing strong.
What we believe is simple: by Creating Experiences That Matter™ for our employees, they pay it forward with our sales teams, who perpetuate the experience with their clients in delivering homeownership in their local communities.
We take ownership of the entire loan process – from education, to our product offerings, to qualifying the homebuyer, to working hand-in-hand with everyone involved ensuring professional and on-time closings. We are 100% client focused, and really do care about getting the right solutions for our clients, and that makes all the difference.
It looks like our customers agree, with over 33,000 published consumer reviews and an average rating of 4.96 stars –we couldn’t be more thrilled!
In 2018, we served over 25,155 customers and funded over $8.2 billion in home loans, growing our market share while others contracted.
Among other awards, APM has also been voted a top mortgage employer for 5 years running by NMP Magazine and one of the 50 best places to work by Mortgage Executive Magazine.
APM was launched in 1996, with a group of 30 people and now employs over 2,000 employees in nearly 200 branches. The one thing that has never changed is our unwavering commitment to support our branch managers and loan officers. We give our originators the culture and resources to provide a unique and superior customer experience for our borrowers.
Our growth is proof positive that each and every one of us is busy every day Creating Experiences That Matter™ in delivering homeownership. Look out top 10 – we’re coming for you!
The Top 9 Benefits of a VA Loan
Veterans and service members have had the VA home loan benefit since 1944, and with millions eligible, there are still questions about what the benefits are of utilizing the VA Loan compared to other loans.
Getting the loan you need when you don't meet traditional guidelines
Imagine you’re shopping for a home, you find the home of your dreams…and for whatever reason, you can’t traditionally qualify for the loan to purchase it. Sadly, for many prospective home buyers, this was the end of the road to purchase that home – but that’s no longer the case.
Is a Reverse Mortgage Right For You?
Reverse Mortgages Explained
You may be hearing a lot about Reverse Mortgages in commercials on radio and television lately. Sometimes it’s hard to decipher what, exactly a reverse mortgage is – or whether it’s something for you to consider for yourself. There’s a lot of information out there, so we wanted to break it down in easy-to-understand bites to make your decision-making as easy as possible.
Manufactured Homes can be an Affordable Option in a Hot Market
In hot real estate markets, it can be frustrating to get a foot in the door of home ownership. Manufactured homes are becoming more and more popular as an affordable option but have traditionally been difficult to finance. Our Manufactured Select program seeks to change that and has been designed specifically to give home buyers more options for affordable housing.
Pre-Approval Helps Buyers Compete
Shopping for a home can be exciting and nerve-wracking. When the market is tight, and you’re competing against multiple offers – especially when some of those offers are for cash – it can be downright frustrating.
5 Ways to Observe Memorial Day Mindfully
Memorial Day is celebrated by many with cookouts and parties and signifies the beginning of the summer season. It’s important, however, to respect and observe the actual meaning of Memorial Day, which is a National Day of Mourning honoring those who have died serving the U.S. Armed Forces. If you’re hosting a gathering, it’s important to remember that for many, this is a tough day. It’s difficult to raise a glass and light off fireworks and smile with the crowd when the observance hits close to home.
Creating Experiences That Matter™ with our Employees
At American Pacific Mortgage (APM), we know that Creating Experiences That Matter™ for our customers starts at home. That’s why we take time every year to recognize employees who live our culture and values every day, and go above and beyond for our clients in every interaction.
4 Ways to Use Your Home Equity
The last several years have been very good for property values for most areas of the United States. According to the National Association of Realtors market growth will likely flatten out a bit for 2019, but still continue to improve at a more moderate pace.
Using a Bridge Loan to Buy While Selling
Looking to Buy While You Are Selling?
Buying a home is thrilling and exciting and terrifying all at once. Add in the fact that you haven’t sold your current home, and there are many more moving parts to your transaction. In a hot real estate market, sometimes you have to jump in and make an offer before you’re quite ready (or able) to sell your current home. If you have a hefty savings account and income sufficient to qualify for both of your mortgages, it might not be a problem, But for millions of homeowners, this scenario requires a different solution.