{"id":40,"date":"2026-04-18T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2026-04-18T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T14:00:00","slug":"what-not-to-do-before-closing-on-a-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"What NOT To Do Before Closing on a House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>First-time home buyers should avoid several common mistakes after mortgage pre-approval to ensure a smooth closing process. Key actions to avoid include changing jobs, purchasing a new car, making late payments, and opening new bank accounts. It&#039;s also crucial not to spend down payment funds, offer more than the appraised value for a home, close debt accounts, co-sign new loans, skip home inspections, or ignore lender requests. Maintaining financial stability and consistency is essential until the loan is finalized.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madisonmortgageguys.com\/what-not-to-do-before-closing-on-a-house\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First-time home buyers should avoid several common mistakes after mortgage pre-approval to ensure a smooth closing process. Key actions to avoid include changing jobs, purchasing a new car, making late payments, and opening new bank accounts. It&#039;s also crucial not to spend down payment funds, offer more than the appraised value for a home, close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mandalayocrealty.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}