First Time Homebuyer Thousand Oaks CA | Community First Mortgage

Looking to buy your first home in Thousand Oaks? If so, you’ve taken a great first step by finding our website!

Community First Mortgage is a mortgage broker located in Thousand Oaks California. We have been in business since 1986 and we have helped thousands of first time home buyers over the years and the majority in Thousand Oaks.

Here is what we have to offer…

Patience
Personalized service and guidance.
Fantastically low rates. Much better rates than any big bank, credit union or any other local mortgage broker.
Experience
Local office

Patience

First time home buyers understandably have lots of questions on how the mortgage and home buying process works and answering these questions and making sure all of our first time home buyer clients in Thousand Oaks are perfectly clear and comfortable with the process.

Don’t hesitate to ask any question (even the ones you think are dumb) – we are happy to help!

Personalized Service and Guidance

First time home buyers need a bit more hand-holding than clients who have gone through the process before. Being a local mortgage broker, we feel there is no other lending option that can provide the same level of service. Our business (unlike big banks and credit unions) are built on repeat clients and referrals. A first time home buyer is not going to come back to us for a mortgage if we are not helpful, patient and responsive – which is why we always aim to deliver on all three of these traits.

There are countless questions and scenarios to go over with a first time home buyer…

How much should I put down?
Can I improve my credit score?
Should I go with a higher interest rate with a lender credit to cover closing costs?
Should I request a seller’s credit with my offer?
When should I lock a rate?

We are happy to provide our guidance on all these questions and more because it can be extremely important to make sure your purchase is successful.

Fantastically Low Rates

First time home buyers in Thousand Oaks often put less than 20% down and often use the majority of their savings for their down payment. For this reason, it helps to have a lender credit to apply toward closing costs. Most banks and credit unions don’t offer interest rates with lender credits to apply toward closing costs and instead keep that extra money/credit for their own compensation! Not us, we offer options. Low rates with no lender credits and higher rates with lender credits to apply toward closing costs, but keep in mind our “higher” rates are still going to be lower than big banks and credit unions and you will receive a lender credit to cover all or a large part of your closing costs.

Our ability to offer lower rates keeps your monthly payment as low as possible which makes it easier for you to afford your home and qualify for the home you want, but the lender credit that comes with most of the options we offer will keep more money in your pocket less money needed to cover closing costs.

Keep in mind you don’t pay for our compensation – lenders do. Any fantastically low rate we offer already includes our compensation!

Experience

Buying your first home is one of the most important purchases of your life. It’s important you have a mortgage professional who can anticipate problems before they happen and if problems arise during the process you need a mortgage professional who knows how to solve the problem fast. Most of our loan officers have over 10 years of experience. Valerie Mitchell has over 40 years of experience and JB Samuelson has over 20 years worth of experience and we all bounce questions off of each other. You are in good hands with your biggest purchase.

Local Office

Most of our younger, first-time home buyers would rather handle the process electronically – and we certainly offer the ability to do this, but if a client wants to come in and meet us – we are always excited to put a face to a name and voice (and text!).

If you are ready to get started with the preapproval process please click “apply now” or give us a call at (805) 379-1850.

If you would like to see the rates we can offer, please click the “Home Purchase Rates” button and we’ll send a personalized rate quote to you.

We hope to hear from you soon!