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Using Your 401k For A Home Down Payment

If you have a 401k account, you have a down payment for your home.

Contact the person who handles your 401k account and ask them about information for borrowing against your 401k.  Most 401k plans allow you to borrow against the value of the account.  Generally, the max you can borrower is 50% of the current value.  This will be a loan borrowed to yourself, because the money you pay back goes right back into the 401k account.  I believe the average interest rate you pay on the money borrowed is around 6%.

Lenders allow you to use this money as the downpayment for your home, so take advantage of it.  They don’t count the debt against you in the total debt to income ratio and they only ask that you show that the funds came from your 401k account.

This option for a down payment on a home is overlooked all to often.

Credit Advice From Gangster Flicks

This is certainly more geared towards the guys, but once I saw the headline it made me want to read and share with everyone.

It’s a list of 5 things you can learn about credit from popular gangster movies.

Here is the link, enjoy!  Credit Advice From Gangster Flicks

Funniest Credit Card Commercial.

Not exactly credit advice or mortgage advice, but thought I’d share the funniest Master Card commercial.

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