[GSBN] Secondary lenders for straw bale home mortgages

[Anni Tilt]

For the record, the straw bale house we designed in Mill Valley sold  
for 33% over the asking price about 4 years ago.

Anni Tilt
Arkin Tilt Architects   Ecological Planning &Design
						1101 8th Street, #180
						Berkeley, CA 94710
						510.528.9830
						510.528.0206 fax
						www.arkintilt.com





On Nov 25, 2008, at 7:24 PM, bill c wrote:

> There are hundreds of homes listed in the strawbale registry <http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ 
> > which have received conventional mortgages.  I have not heard one  
> report of a lender refusing to be the secondary lender, and I would  
> find it hard to believe that there weren't many SB homes' mortgages  
> which haven't sold on the secondary market.  I don't have hard  
> evidence of that, but perhaps it's time to send a query to the list  
> of registerees and ask them.  Or perhaps just the owners of SBs in  
> the appropriate state or region for starters.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:57:09 -0700
> "Ben Yeomans" <ben at redfeather.org> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>  We’re looking into funding options for our home applicants on the
>> Northern Cheyenne reservation. The local bank that we are working  
>> with
>> doesn’t think they can find a secondary lender for a SB home. She  
>> included
>> the following in her last email and we don’t have any examples to  
>> point her
>> to.
>> “Do you know of any homes that you have done in the past, if they  
>> were sold
>> on the secondary market to any special investor, say FNMA or Freddy  
>> Mac, or
>> Sun Trust, maybe Chase, etc”
>> Any suggestions on how best to proceed?
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>> Ben Yeomans
>> Community Build Associate
>> Red Feather Development Group
>> P.O. Box 907
>> Bozeman, MT 59771-0907
>> (T) - (406) 585-7188   (F) - (406) 585-7187
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