After purchasing a home, how long must I wait before I can be approved for a Home Equity Loan?

Question

I'm interested in buying an invesment property but the home needs a little work. I'd like to get a Home Equity Loan to cover some of the renovation costs. Would I be able to get a Home Equity Loan immediately after closing on the mortgage? If not how long must I wait before being approved for the Home Equity Loan?

I'm interested in buying an investment property but the home needs a little work. I'd like to get a Home Equity Loan to cover some of the renovation costs. The asking price of the home I'm interested in is 30% under market value. Would I be able to get a Home Equity Loan immediately after closing on the mortgage? If not how long must I wait before being approved for the Home Equity Loan?

The asking price of the home I'm interested in is 30% under market value.

Answer 1

There is no specific waiting time, it depends on how qualified you are and how much equity there is in the property. If you're buying it with little down then forget it. You have to wait until the value goes up and these days values are going down.

Answer 2

Well, let's see - A Home Equity Loan is a loan on the equity you have in your home. After you buy your home, you have no equity in your home because you have just started paying it off. So you have to wait until you have paid in enough money to actually have some equity!!
A better move would be to convince a mortgage lender that by improving the property, you would increase its value so the lender agrees to put money in the mortgage loan under certain conditions to cover repairs and improvements. We had a whole historic neighborhood recovered because a local bank was willing to take a huge house with a sale price of $40,000 and loan $75,000 on it for professional repairs. Because of the rising market at that time and the quality of the homes, the results were homes valued at $200,000 or more, now worth $750,000 plus.
Of course, it really helps to have a rising market which we don't right now.

Answer 3

You need to have equity in the home before you can get a home equity loan. It you really shopped around and bought a house that is worth a lot more than you paid for it, you can probably get a home equity loan now. There is no magical number of months or years you need to have owned you home. Just what the current market value is vs what you already owe against you original loan.

Answer 4

You can take a home equity loan once you've made your first mortgage payment. However, to do so, you must have equity in the home you originally financed. Some lenders may take into consideration the fact that you're buying another investment home and tally in the value of that home.

Good Luck with your investment!

Answer 5

It would depend on whether or not you got a good deal when you bought the house. The real estate climate would dictate whether you had any equity or not. Equity is much like stock, it goes up and down in value. In California at this time in most areas, it is pretty flat. You might actually take a negative equity and go a little upside down. It is a crystal ball guess at this time. My crystal ball says about a year before prices rise.
My crystal ball was made offshore!

Answer 6

Talk to your bank. My bank offers a loan that includes mortgage and home improvements for a house that needs to be fixed up before it is livable. As far as a home equity loan, you don't have any equity yet so you can't borrow against it.

Answer 7

I believe you can do it immediately...as long as you have instant equity in your home. Some people close on the two mortgages at the same time, even!

Answer 8

Your in luck my nephew who is a mortgage broker is here picking up my boat to go fishing. He said most houses are going down in value these day so it is highly unlikely a bank would do this unless you had other accounts or had an outstanding credit rating.

Answer 9

Immediately.

Answer 10

there is no time perameter as long as the home is worth more then you paid for it [your amount of equity]