First Time Buyer Home Loan
About us

The First Time Buyer Home Loan story.

First Time Buyer Home Loan is a small team that remembers how confusing buying a first home really is. We write the encouraging, jargon-free guide we wish we'd had โ€” what each loan program means, how to prep your credit, and what you can actually afford. We earn affiliate commissions on some links, but our job is to get you to the right next step, not the most expensive one.

Editorial standards

Every review on First Time Buyer Home Loan is grounded in primary research, hands-on testing where applicable, and comparison with at least three competing alternatives. We disclose affiliate relationships and never accept payment in exchange for placement, ranking, or coverage.

  • 01Reviews are reviewed by an editor before publication.
  • 02We update reviews when prices, features, or terms change materially.
  • 03When we're wrong, we publish corrections โ€” clearly labeled.

The team

A small, opinionated group of analysts and editors who all maintain their own ridiculous personal spreadsheets.

Priya Mehta
Priya Mehta
Editor in Chief

Former product analyst at a robo-advisor; covers retirement planning and brokerage tooling.

Daniel Roussel
Daniel Roussel
Senior Reviewer ยท Mortgage & Refi

Spent eight years as a residential mortgage processor before crossing over into editorial.

Helena Lindqvist
Helena Lindqvist
Tax Software Lead

EA. Has filed alongside every consumer tax product since 2011 โ€” same return, same outputs.

Marcus Akinwale
Marcus Akinwale
Budgeting & HYSAs

Spreadsheet purist. Maintains the test-household model we run every budgeting app through.

Contact

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