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Buying in Côte-Nord before you have sold calls for a bridge loan, and most lenders grant one only if your sale is firm. The other options, and what they cost.
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.
Your offer price only counts if recent sales back it up. Where comparables are scarce in Côte-Nord, the appraisal can land under what you agreed to pay, and you make up the difference in cash. The lender won’t finance that gap.
A file in Côte-Nord starts with four things: income proof, where the down payment comes from, what you owe, and what’s left each month.
Rate is the easy part to compare. On a purchase in Côte-Nord, two offers mostly differ in the penalty to break the term, how much you can prepay each year, and whether the mortgage follows you to your next home.
A file that’s complete the first time saves you weeks of emails. What holds things up in Côte-Nord is almost never the analysis. It’s the employer who hasn’t answered, the statement not yet sent, the appraiser running late.
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.