Dome Friendly Lending Companies List

Monolithic March 24, 2009, 9:01 a.m. Professionals

You’ve found the dome home of your dreams or you have plans to build one of your own; now you need financing to make it happen. While getting a mortgage used to be relatively simple, the 2008 downturn in the economy changed everything. Now lenders are requiring squeaky clean credit, bigger down payments, and solid appraisals.

Unfortunately, the tighter lending requirements have hit the alternative housing market especially hard. Changes in appraisal rules have led many lenders and appraisers to stop doing valuations on dome homes. No appraisals means no loans.

The lenders listed here are those that are providing financing for dome homes in spite of the recession.

We’d also appreciate your help. If you know of a mortgage company that should be listed here, please let us know.

Government Capital lends to government bodies such as cities, schools, and any government organizations. Consider them for your next school or school addition, emergency center, 911 centers fire station etc.

Government Capitol

D.C. Greer
303 Hwy 51 South
Brookhaven, MS 39601
800/561-0461
dcgreer@govcap.com
www.govcap.com

^{Serving over 4,7000 state and local government agencies since 1992.}

Home Front Mortgage

Wendy Goldsmith
2929 5th Avenue NE
Suite C
Puyallup, Washington 98372
253/770-5486
wendy@homefrontmortgage.com

^{Served Monolithic Dome Home buyers for over 15 years.}

Wells Fargo Home Mortgage

Sovann Kang
253/376-0991cell
253/945-1251
sovann.kang@wellsfargo.com

The following lenders have not been active recently. That does not mean they won’t or can’t finance Monolithic Domes; only that they have been impacted by the recession.

CHURCH LENDERS

Great Nation Investment Company

John Greer
Florida
407/770-7301
jgreer@greatnation.com
www.greatnation.com

Community Capital Partners, LLC

Robert C. Farmer, Jr. & Richard A. Jones
One Liberty Place
1650 Market Street, Suite 3600
Philadelphia, PA 19103
267/207-2749
Fax 267/319-7901
rfarmer@communitycapitalpartners.com
www.communitycapitalpartners.com

^{You can contact Farmer at 267/549-1483 and Jones at 570/350-3826}

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