The mortgage decides more about what you pay for a house than the negotiation does, and the industry wraps it in vocabulary designed to be nodded at rather than understood. This guide covers preapproval versus prequalification, how much house you can actually afford, rate versus APR, points and buydowns, PMI and exactly when it leaves, and the three places borrowers routinely leave money on the table.

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