Nick Nagy
Nick Nagy, California mortgage broker
Nick Nagy
Mortgage broker · NMLS 314880 · CA DRE 01444600
Loan Factory, Inc.
California mortgage broker · NMLS 314880

Don’t let one lender decide whether you can buy the home you want.

I compare your file across 237 Loan Factory lenders and structure the income, the down payment, the property and the timing around what you’re actually trying to do. First home. Move-up. Self-employed. VA. FHA. Jumbo. Investor. Or a lender already told you no.

23 years in California lending · No credit pull to start · No obligation

What are you trying to do?

Pick the one that sounds most like you. It sets up the plan I write.

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What you get

Your Mortgage Game Plan

One page, written on your numbers. Here is the shape of it.

Buying power____
Likely payment____
Cash needed____
Best financing route____
Biggest issue to solve____
Backup route____
What to do next____

Written, on your numbers, yours to keep.

Why this matters

Why one lender is not enough

One guideline book, or a field of them

A bank has one guideline book, and your file either fits it or it does not. Through Loan Factory I place the same file against 237 lenders, and they do not all read it the same way.

The file a single bank reads wrong

Self-employed income, a recent job change, rental income, a co-signer, a property with a second unit. Strong files get declined every week because one desk was not set up to read them. That is the desk, not you.

The answer in writing, including when it is wait

You get the route, the number and the tradeoff on paper. When the honest answer is wait ninety days and fix one thing first, you get that in writing too, with the one thing named.

Loan Factory: 20,907+ Google reviews · 5.0 published average · 237 lenders

Start where you are

Six files I get called about most

Self-employed

Your tax returns are written to lower your taxable income. That is good accounting and it is a bad loan application, unless the lender reads deposits instead.

Bank statement loans →
Buy before you sell

You have the equity. It is just sitting in the house you still live in. There are structures that let you write the next offer without a sale contingency.

Buy before you sell →
FHA, VA and assistance

Low down payment, gift funds, seller credits and VA entitlement all have rules most buyers are never walked through. They change what you can write an offer at.

First-time buyer → VA loans →
Jumbo and high balance

Above the conforming limit the file gets read differently: reserves, documentation, the appraisal. The right lender for a jumbo file is often not the one you already bank with.

Jumbo and high balance →
Investor

When the property carries itself, some lenders will qualify it on the rent instead of your personal income. That changes how many you can hold.

DSCR and investor loans →
Complex files

Inherited property, an ADU, a trust, a non-warrantable condo, a build. These take a lender who has done that exact thing before, and a broker who knows which one that is.

See how I handle them →
For buyers who already hold an approval

Already pre-approved? Find out how strong that approval really is.

A pre-approval tells you that you qualify. It does not tell you how your offer reads to the other side of the table. The check reads three things.

ReadinessIs the file finished, or only finished enough to look it.
SpeedHow fast you could actually close if the seller asked.
StrategyIs the program you were handed the right one for this purchase.
Take the 3-minute Offer Strength Check →
Who you are dealing with

Nick Nagy

23 years in California lending. NMLS 314880. CA DRE 01444600. I hold both licences, so I can read the loan and the transaction at the same time, and talk to your agent as a peer instead of a vendor.

Your file is placed through Loan Factory, Inc., Company NMLS 320841, CA DRE 01771313. That is where the field of lenders comes from.

Loan Factory: 20,907+ Google reviews · 5.0 published average · 237 lenders

More about Nick, and how to verify the licences →

Where I work

Local pages, built for the market you are actually buying in

Second look

A lender already said no? Send me how they calculated it.

Most declines come down to one line of arithmetic: how the income was averaged, how a debt was counted, which program was used. Send me their numbers and I will tell you whether another lender reads it differently, and I will tell you plainly if they do not.

Send me the second look →

Build my mortgage plan

Tell me what you are working on.

Two short steps. Nick reads these himself.

Step 1
Pick an option above and this question changes to match.
Step 2

Where should Nick send your plan?

For the written plan we text a link.
No credit pull to start · No obligation
Build my mortgage plan