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Real estate loans and financial gifts with relatives can be a win-win for both sides, but should be documented properly. National Family Mortgage ® helps minimize the legal and federal tax consequences that can occur when family real estate loans and financial gifts are documented improperly – or not documented at all.

You can use a National Family Mortgage in many of the same situations you might use a traditional bank mortgage, including:

• A family funded Reverse Mortgage: Our Caregiver Mortgage ® is a secured line of credit, funded by your own family members. When your home is sold one day, or upon the settlement of your estate, the credit line is repaid.

We want to help Lenders make loans that they feel good about, that prevents tax problems, and protects family relationships. We want to help Borrowers fund their dreams and and enjoy their retirement. Our goal is to make family mortgage lending and borrowing safe, easy, secure, and successful.

Our Caregiver Mortgage ® is available in the following states:

Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois*, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.

(This means the Borrower’s subject property is located in one of these states listed directly above.)

* If your property is located in Cook, Kane, Peoria, or Will County, the local Estate attorney or Elder attorney who will otherwise conduct your loan closing must obtain a Private Lending Exemption Certificate (PLEC) from the state of Illinois Anti-Predatory Lending Department as required under state law in order to record the Mortgage.

If you wish to facilitate a Caregiver Mortgage ® secured by a home in a US state other than those listed directly above, unfortunately, we cannot help you.

Please be sure to review our company Standards for complete restrictions and limitations.

How much are you going to borrow? How much cash-flow do you need each month? How long do you hope to stay in your home? Our free Family Mortgage Guide has lots of information on how to work with your Lender(s) to ensure a successful loan. We also have a great calculator on the Products / Pricing page to help you get started.

Once you and your Lender(s) have agreed upon loan terms, it’s time to make the agreement legally binding. Either you or your Lender may submit your loan details through our secure online Setup Form, with the following exceptions:

(1) If your property is in Kentucky, Maryland, Texas, or Virginia, then you, the Borrower, must submit the online Setup Form and submit our one-time setup fee.

In the event multiple households are funding the loan, one Lender must take responsibility for submitting the Loan Setup Form and for paying our one-time setup fee. However, as explained directly above, if your property is in Kentucky, Maryland, Texas, or Virginia, then you, the Borrower, must submit our online Setup Form and submit our one-time setup fee.

All Caregiver Mortgages ® have three crucial components:

Promissory Note: The Promissory Note establishes the legal debt between the parties and records how the debt is going to be repaid.

Joint Lender Agreement In the event your loan includes multiple Lenders (households), this agreement will document the individual rights and credit-line of each Lender. The individual household credit-lines collectively comprise the total loan amount.

Mortgage / Deed of Trust / Security Deed: This is the legal security instrument through which you offer the Lender(s) your property as collateral in exchange for the loan.

Within one business day of submitting your online Setup Form, a Family Mortgage Team Member will call you to confirm the details of your loan. Within seven business days of submitting your online Setup Form, we will email your comprehensive loan documents for your review approval. The documents will also include an open lien search and an electronic valuation of your property.

After you have reviewed and approved your loan documents, the documents are emailed to your closing attorney. The closing attorney will oversee the execution and government recording of your Family Mortgage.

State laws in over half of the country legally require local attorney participation when closing a loan secured by real estate. As an ever increasing number of states move towards this legal standard, we follow this protocol with every National Family Mortgage ® transaction.

Additionally, your local attorney’s involvement will help minimize liabilities for all parties, and further ensure a successful arrangement for everyone.

Our Caregiver Mortgage ® Manager ensures expectations are clear, relationships are protected, and year-end tax reporting is simple.

• Individual and group reports
• Annotate disbursements
• Upload and attach images and receipts
• Individual annual tax reports