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Low Credit Score

  My husband and I currently rent but would like to purchase a home. The problem is we have low credit (520 middle score) does that make it absolutely impossible to obtain 100% financing? Would it help to have another co-signer on the loan who has good credit?
 
  Nobody is getting 100 % financing these days, even those with great credit scores.  Lenders are becoming much more careful.  If you had a co-signer, that person would become personally responsible for the whole debt, and even so, I doubt if someone with a score like yours could qualify for a mortgage loan.
    Edith
Originally published on April 26, 2008
 
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