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Five days for the financing condition in Lanaudière is workable if the documents are already together. What to have before you submit the offer.
Timing becomes the criterion. A lender that gives the best answer in three weeks is useless if the financing condition expires Friday. What slows a file down is the appraisal, the notary or a missing document, almost never the analysis.
The complete file on the first call: notices of assessment, proof of income, down payment, the signed offer to purchase, the notary’s contact details. Each missing piece costs a day or two, and that pile-up is what blows tight deadlines.
What a lender approves and what you can comfortably pay are rarely the same number. Settle on the second one first: in Lanaudière, taxes, insurance and heating come on top of the mortgage every month.
Count the timeline backwards from the signing date: lender review, mortgage insurance if it applies, the appraisal, and then the documents that will always be missing. A financing condition that is too short costs you an extension to ask the seller for, in Lanaudière as anywhere.
The lender approves the property as much as the borrower. Condition, intended use, anything the inspection or the title flags: any of it can stall a Lanaudière file that looked settled on the numbers alone.
On top of the down payment: notary fees, tax adjustments and transfer duty. In Lanaudière the welcome tax often shows up months after the purchase, when the move and the furniture have already drained the account. That is exactly why people forget it.
To prepare
Yes. It all runs by phone, email or video call, and documents go through online. We can meet in person, but most files get settled without anyone having to travel.
An answer within 24 to 48 hours is common when the file is complete. What stretches the rest is the appraisal, the notary and whatever documents are missing. Set your financing condition to match.
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Buying, renewing, refinancing, or something a bit out of the ordinary: tell us where you’re at, even if it’s still fuzzy. Mathieu gets back to you with next steps and the documents to pull together.