re: Home Mortgage Questions

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If you can pay 20 percent down, you can avoid PMI, so I would try to do that if you can.

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You can actually avoid PMI with less depending on lender. I've got one with an 85/15 no PMI. And that's on conventional loans. On FHA there is no avoiding PMI, even with 90% down but it did just drop to .85%