Down Payment Assistance for FHA sees Increased Fee

According to The Nehemiah Program, effective June 9, 2008, the fee for processing the down payment assistance program through Nehemiah will be increasing. Here is an excerpt from their press release:
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According to the HUD Mortgagee Letter 2008-11, HUD has created two groups of references that can be used as alternative credit for FHA mortgage loans. These are used when the borrower’s credit file does not have enough information to create a credit score, or when the credit file produces a score with very limited credit. HUD stressed that these are not to be considered as an alternative to “poor credit.”
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