Shingle Springs is an unincorporated El Dorado County community along Highway 50 between Cameron Park and Placerville, where oak-studded acreage and custom homes stretch from Mother Lode Drive into the foothills. We help Shingle Springs buyers and homeowners with financing for acreage, custom homes and rural properties. Down payment assistance is one of the most underused tools in the Shingle Springs market. Buyers assume they do not qualify or that the programs are too complicated, when in reality a first-time buyer with steady income and reasonable credit is often eligible for thousands of dollars in help.
Call Pacific National Lending for down payment assistance in Shingle Springs: (916) 526-2700
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Shingle Springs buyers typically want land, privacy and a manageable Highway 50 commute to Folsom and Sacramento, and most properties come with wells, septic systems, outbuildings and sometimes second units. That calls for a lender who understands rural appraisals, and larger parcels regularly reach jumbo loan amounts. To use most assistance programs in Shingle Springs, 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 is mostly custom and semi-custom homes on one-to-ten-acre parcels along Mother Lode Drive, French Creek Road and South Shingle Road, with older homes near the historic townsite and a few smaller subdivisions off Ponderosa Road. Assistance loans add a few steps to the closing, such as program approval and homebuyer education, and we manage all of them. Most Shingle Springs purchases using CalHFA assistance close in about 30 to 35 days, and we set expectations with your agent and the seller from the start.
Repeat buyers in Shingle Springs are not always excluded. Some programs waive the first-time buyer requirement in targeted areas or for veterans, and gift funds from family can be used alongside assistance. We look at every angle.
We help borrowers with down payment assistance throughout Shingle Springs, including Mother Lode Drive, French Creek Road, South Shingle Road, Ponderosa Road, and across the El Dorado County foothills. Shingle Springs is about thirty minutes from our Gold River office via Highway 50.
Ready to talk about down payment assistance in Shingle Springs? Call (916) 526-2700 or apply online in a few minutes. There is no credit pull at the first step and no obligation.
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