Placerville is the El Dorado County seat, a Gold Rush town along Highway 50 whose historic Main Street sits at the center of a wide foothill area that includes Diamond Springs, Camino and Apple Hill. We help Placerville buyers and homeowners with financing for in-town homes, acreage and rural properties. Down payment assistance in Placerville can cover a large share of the cash needed to buy a home, and Pacific National Lending helps buyers find and use the programs they qualify for. From CalHFA's statewide MyHome assistance to county and city programs, we layer assistance with FHA, VA or conventional financing to reduce cash to close.
Call Pacific National Lending for down payment assistance in Placerville: (916) 526-2700
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Placerville buyers include retirees, remote workers and families trading suburban lots for foothill acreage, and many properties have wells, septic systems, outbuildings or manufactured homes that need the right loan program. Wildfire insurance costs and availability are a real factor in qualifying here. To use most assistance programs in Placerville, you must be a first-time buyer, meaning no ownership interest in a home in the past three years, occupy the home as your primary residence, complete a homebuyer education course and stay within the program's income limits for El Dorado County.
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Housing includes historic homes near Main Street, 1960s to 90s neighborhoods around Placerville Drive and Broadway, and custom homes on acreage in Diamond Springs, Camino, Pleasant Valley and Cold Springs. Assistance loans add a few steps to the closing, such as program approval and homebuyer education, and we manage all of them. Most Placerville purchases using CalHFA assistance close in about 30 to 35 days, and we set expectations with your agent and the seller from the start.
Assistance can often be combined with seller credits and lender credits, so an Placerville first-time buyer may bring very little to closing. We structure the offer with your agent so the seller's contribution covers what the program does not.
We help borrowers with down payment assistance throughout Placerville, including Downtown Placerville, Diamond Springs, Camino, Apple Hill, and across the El Dorado County foothills. Placerville is about forty-five minutes from our Gold River office via Highway 50.
Call Pacific National Lending at (916) 526-2700 or start your application online. We will review your goals, explain your options in plain English and give you real numbers for down payment assistance in Placerville.
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