Business owners, artists and entrepreneurs tend to have unique financial flows and income and expense patterns. Additionally, because they have many deductible expenses, their tax returns do not always reflect their full financial picture. So, the hardest part is documenting income.
Also, business owners’ financial documents take more time to analyze, and they require more attention to detail to evaluate and approve. Additionally, many lenders consider self-employed people to be “risky” borrowers (this is ironic because most business owners have an excellent payment history, even if they sometimes make their payments a little behind schedule).
Mainstream lenders and most independent mortgage broker are after the “low-hanging fruit” of mortgages for employed borrowers with perfect credit scores (this is about 30% of borrowers)—these are quick and easy to do by following what are essentially basic and routine procedures.
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