Big question: What is the most important thing to consider when choosing a real estate mortgage lender?
Is it rates? Fees? Whether or not they can do a digital mortgage? How do you decide?
J.D. Power and Associates just completed a survey of over 5,200 borrowers from the last year - those that either obtained a loan to buy a home or had refinanced an existing mortgage. They wanted to find out what was the most important item.
The answer: responsiveness.
Borrowers most wanted their representative to get back to them!
The categories for rating were at 7 days, 5 days, 3 days, and 1 day. Seriously: some lenders took a week to respond back to the homeowner. And, even worse, 24 hour response was considered exceptional.
Imagine this: you're in escrow on a home, have an issue, and it takes the lender a day to respond?
My head would explode. So should yours.
Unless the circumstances are extraordinary, you should expect your lender to get back to you RIGHT AWAY.
Advice: When shopping for a mortgage lender, test them: leave them a text, email, or voicemail and then just wait to see how long it takes to get back to you. If it's not IMMEDIATE, especially right upfront, it's time to MOVE ON.
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