5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Getting an FHA Mortgage

Sometimes you find a behemoth 127-year-old Victorian at such a major bargain that it seems silly to pass up--even if it's much more than you intend to spend. So you decide to turn the top floor into a full-time Airbnb to help make the payments. But in order to keep as much money from your last home's sale as possible, you opted to make the minimum possible down payment (3.5 percent) on an FHA mortgage. (If you can't tell--that's what happened to me!) My husband and I put down $7,600 on our $200,...