The FHA publishes a list of approved appraisers for each state - Anderson & Associates is on the roster of approved appraisers for Washington.
Anderson & Associates is certified and approved to do appraisal reports for FHA secured financial transactions.
A certain amount of the continuing training our staff at Anderson & Associates undergoes deals exclusively with decoding the FHA's documentation and their rules and procedures.
The FHA is the Federal Housing Administration, which is a federal agency in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD); if your financial transaction is an FHA-secured loan, it means it is underwritten by them.
No part of the loan is provided by the FHA. What the FHA does is see to it that the loan is paid for in case the borrower doesn't pay their loan.
Applicable to all buyers, FHA loan programs are formed to aid credit-worthy low-income and moderate-income families who do not have the qualifications for conventional loans.
Unlike the VA appraiser panel, the lender working with FHA is allowed to select the appraiser.
Down payments are often lower with an FHA loan despite using conventional market rates.
FHA loan programs are incredibly beneficial to those consumers with less available starting capital.