{"id":2110,"date":"2025-03-14T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/what-you-need-to-know-about-pre-approval\/"},"modified":"2025-03-14T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T10:30:00","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-pre-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/what-you-need-to-know-about-pre-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About Pre-Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250314-What-You-Need-To-Know-About-Pre-Approval-KCM-Share-original.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"What You Need To Know About Pre-Approval Simplifying The Market\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/What-You-Need-To-Know-About-Pre-Approval-MEM-original.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/What-You-Need-To-Know-About-Pre-Approval-MEM-original.jpg?w=1220&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"a close-up of a calculator\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Some Highlights<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Before you even start looking at homes, there\u2019s something you should do first \u2013 and that\u2019s get pre-approved for your mortgage.<\/li>\n<li>Pre-approval is when a lender checks your finances and decides how much you\u2019re qualified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplifyingthemarket.com\/2025\/01\/16\/one-homebuying-step-you-dont-want-to-skip-pre-approval?a=783612-02a11606fc81d6a6e402d49bc5bfe20b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">to borrow<\/a> for your home loan. This helps you determine your budget and makes your offer stand out for sellers.<\/li>\n<li>?Connect with a trusted lender to get the process started.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/14\/what-you-need-to-know-about-pre-approval\/\">What You Need To Know About Pre-Approval<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/sandpointrealtyidaho.com\/blog\">Sandpoint Realty<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Highlights Before you even start looking at homes, there\u2019s something you should do first \u2013 and that\u2019s get pre-approved for your mortgage. Pre-approval is when a lender checks your finances and decides how much you\u2019re qualified to borrow for your home loan. This helps you determine your budget and makes your offer stand out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sandpoint-real-estate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}