Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 11:32:48 CST
From: beliavsky@aol.com
Newsgroups: misc.invest.financial-plan
Subject: settlement on a house
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I signed a contract to buy a house.

In shopping for a mortgage, some mortgage lenders say that an advantage
of going through them is that they will attend the settlement. How
important is this? What kinds of things go wrong at a settlement, and
in what cases would having the mortgage lender present be helpful?

In general, besides cost (rate, points, origination fees), how does one
judge a mortgage lender? I do a Google search on mortage lenders
looking for customer complaints, and I have avoided one lender because
there were complaints that the lender promised a low mortgage rate but
did not deliver.