Private mortgage insurance (PrivateMI) is the affordable, predictable, cancelable and tax deductible way to buy a home with a low down payment. It makes it possible to buy a home with a down payment of as little as three percent or less for qualified borrowers instead of the 20 percent down payment lenders traditionally have required for loans without insurance.
There's no reason to put the brakes on home ownership. Qualified low down payment borrowers are "good to go" with PrivateMI.
As a first-time home buyer, 28-year-old Ashley Brown was extraordinarily prepared and knew exactly what he wanted. A design and architecture buff, he specifically was looking to buy a place in a building that had been built before World War II, and he wanted to live in Adams Morgan, one of the most diverse and eclectic neighbor- hoods in Washington, D.C. Read more »