3 Common Mortgage Shopper Mistakes By general consensus, most home buyers would agree that sometimes the mortgage experience can be both stressful and complicated. There are a lot of mistakes that can occur, and because of that much due diligence has to take place before diving in. Our goal here at WBM Corpus Christi is to lighten that load and help your journey to home ownership be far less complicated, certainly less stressful and most definitely a memorable one. If you are on the market for a home, you have to be wary of these common mistakes. To give you an idea of some of these blunders, here are 3 of the most common ways home buyers can inadvertently slip up while looking for a mortgage. 1. Applying for new credit: Lenders will see patterns of you attempting to borrow more money as a potential red flag. This activity can cause delays and can potentially change the terms of your financing or even worse may get you declined altogether. On top of that, credit inquiries put a ding ...