Mark Goodwin the Mortgage Money Man

With 27 Years of Mortgage

Experience!!!

Known for:

  • Jumbo Loans
  • Conventional Loans
  • Construction Loans / One Time Close
  • FHA Loan
  • VA Loan

When you decide to buy a home or refinance a mortgage, it's a big step. You can trust us to find the loan program that's best for you.

Buying a new home is a source of anxiety, frustration -- and a huge sense of accomplishment. You didn't pick the house that was best for someone else, you picked the one that's right for you! Trust our professionals to find the mortgage loan that best fits your needs, too. "Less paperwork and more personal attention" means you enter a frustration-free zone from application to decision. Getting the right mortgage loan is like getting the keys to your new house! We can help you get there.

Refinancing your current mortgage has never been easier. If you thought refinancing meant getting buried under mountains of paperwork, think again! We make it easy and worry-free to reduce your interest rate and monthly payment. We can even help you pay down your balance more quickly for comparable monthly payment. Let our professionals guide you to the very best refinanced loan!

Tapping into your home equity is easier than ever before. You've been paying down your balance, and property values have gone up! Tap into that wealth and reward yourself. We'll help with the best program to fit your goals.

Our mortgage professionals give you the personal attention you deserve and treat you with the respect due a valued customer. We understand you're making a commitment in buying a new home, refinancing a mortgage, or cashing out your home equity. So we make a commitment to you. We will help you qualify, apply and be approved for the right mortgage loan for you. Not anyone else!

Please navigate our website to learn more about us, what we do for you, and how easy it is to get started.

Loan Options

Quite simply, the kind of mortgage you receive is dependent in your individual situation. We look at your needs and requirements look at your credit history, your assets, as well as your history of employment. He is able to then recommend some choices for you. Here is a rundown on the most typical loan types.

Jumbo Financial Loans

Description: Above Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae conforming recommendations, and so the large secondary loan companies won’t secure jumbo financial loans. 2006 maximum amount for any conforming loan: $417,000.

  • Pros: Once the market has run out of sight, the jumbo financial loans buy something possible.
  • Cons: Greater lower obligations, and greater rates of interest.

Be careful: If you’re able to pay the greater obligations, then go for this. But make certain you really can afford them.

Fixed-Rate Mortgage

Description: Interest rates are fixed for some time e.g., 10, 15, 20, 30, as well as 40 or half a century, after which the amortized principal is compensated entirely.

  • Pros: Security. Guess what happens your obligations is going to be. You are able to re-finance if rates drop considerably.
  • Cons: If rates go lower, you will still be having to pay the first rate unless of course you re-finance.

Be careful: This can be a lengthy-term prospect if you’re keeping your house for 15 as well as 3 decades, it is a conservative approach to take. However, you can finish up having to pay more short-term than should you have had an ARM.

Adjustable-Rate Mortgages (ARMs)

Description: The rate of interest changes by having an indexed rate along with a set margin adjustment times are predetermined. Minimum and maximum rate caps limit how big the adjustment.

  • Pros: Initial rates are less than fixed. Well-liked by individuals who aren’t looking to remain in a house for lengthy, or perhaps in a hot market where houses appreciate rapidly, or individuals looking to re-finance. You are able to be eligible for a a greater amount borrowed by having an ARM (because of the low initial rate of interest).
  • Cons: Always think that the rates increases following the adjustment period with an ARM. You’re betting that you will save enough initially to counterbalance the future rate increase.

Be careful: Browse the frequency from the changes. The greater frequently, the low the beginning rate, however the more uncertainty. The less frequently, the greater the speed, but a bit more security. Look into the obligations in the maximum of the cap (your rate can increase up to 6 percent!) you will get burned if you cannot pay the greatest possible rate. And planning that the re-finance will bail you out of trouble is dangerous what if you cannot afford (or can’t be eligible for a) that when it’s time?

Balloon Conforming Mortgage

Description: Rate of interest is fixed for some time, however the principal isn’t completely amortized. For the rest of the word, it changes to an alternative fixed interest rate based on the Fannie Mae internet yield index as well as the margin. 30-yr. term

  • Pros: Lower monthly obligations initially. In case your career (and salary) includes a good future, or you’re in a hot market and intend to sell prior to the balloon comes due, it can save you money.
  • Cons: You never know what that new rate is going to be? There is a pending debt inside your future.

Be careful: You are able to re-finance once the balloon comes due, but they’re gambling that you could pay the refi loan.

Balloon mortgage

Description: The speed is fixed for some time, however the principal isn’t completely amortized throughout the time. The whole balance from the principal arrives like a balloon payment in the finish of this period.

  • Pros: Lower monthly obligations, using the idea you could refi or sell prior to the balloon.
  • Cons: A large elephant browsing the wings.

Be careful: It’s not hard to procrastinate, or your existence changes, and your balloon jumps. Refi costs might offset any savings you’ve made.

Veteran Administration Financial loans

Description: A zero-lower loan agreed to veterans only, the Veterans administration guarantees the borrowed funds for loan companies.

  • Pros: Nothing lower, with no mortgage insurance. The borrowed funds is assumable.
  • Cons: It is possible the speed is much more than conventional financial loans or Federal housing administration financial loans.

Be careful: Look around first. Loan companies are becoming compensated a couple percent service charge through the government, so that your points should reflect a price reduction when in comparison to similar rate financial loans.

Federal Housing Administration Loans (FHA)

Description: Government-subsidized loan with low lower payment (i.e., less than 1-3%) and shutting costs incorporated the federal government guarantees the borrowed funds.

  • Pros: Reduced rates for individuals who can’t develop the lower payment or have less-than-perfect credit ideal for first-time homebuyers. The borrowed funds is assumable.
  • Cons: If you’re able to afford 5 percent lower, you will probably find better rates with conventional financial loans

Be careful: Look around first. Loan companies are becoming compensated a couple percent service charge through the government, so that your points should reflect a price reduction when in comparison to similar rate financial loans.


Mark Goodwin
Vice President
1560 E. Southlake Blvd. Ste. 100
Southlake, TX 76092
(817) 366-8666 - Cell
(817) 310-6335 - Fax

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