If you’re thinking about buying a home, your credit is one of the first places most lenders will look—and it can have a bigger impact than many people realize. Credit doesn’t just affect whether you qualify. It can influence your interest rate, monthly payment, insurance premiums, and even how much home you can afford.
In this second workshop in my Home Buyer Workshop Series, we focus on how credit works in the mortgage process, what impacts your score the most, and the common “common sense” actions that can accidentally hurt your credit when you’re preparing to buy.
Fannie Mae (conventional lending) recently changed their underwriting guidelines to no longer factor in credit scores for underwriting approval!
Last Friday, something 
The Seattle Times recently published 
