Free. Five stages. About two hours.
Most first-time buyers start shopping before they know what they can borrow
This course walks the five stages in the order you will actually hit them. Setting your goal. Getting credit and savings ready. Getting pre-qualified. House hunting and negotiating. Then building equity once you own the place.
Go at your own pace. Nobody calls you unless you ask.
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Where first-time buyers get stuck
Almost none of it is about finding the right house. It is about the five things that come before that, in an order nobody hands you.
You do not know what you can borrow
You can tour houses for three months and still not know your real number. Your price range, your loan options, and what a lender will actually look at all come before the shopping. Most people do it the other way around.
The advice contradicts itself
Your parents bought in a different rate environment. ChatGPT gives you general answers. YouTube gives you someone else's market. Your friend's agent gives you their opinion. None of it is exactly wrong, and none of it adds up to a plan.
Credit and savings get worked on too late
The things that change what you qualify for take weeks or months to move. Most buyers learn that after they have already found a house they want.
The costs arrive in the wrong order
Earnest money. Inspection. Appraisal. Closing costs. Each one shows up at a moment when you are already committed and short on time to think it through.
Every decision feels like the expensive one
Which lender. Which loan type. What to offer. When to walk away. Without a framework you second-guess every one of them, and the second-guessing is what wears people down.
None of this means you are behind
It means nobody put the steps in order for you before you started. Buying a house has a sequence. Once you can see the whole sequence, the individual decisions stop feeling like guesses.
That is what the five stages do.
The First-Time Home Buyer Mastery Course
The same sequence I walk clients through, written down
Five stages, in order, covering what to do before you shop, how lenders actually read your file, how to make an offer, and what to do with your equity once you own the place.
It takes about two hours. There are worksheets and a short quiz at the end of each stage, so you can tell whether a stage actually landed before you move to the next one. You keep access, and you get the updates when guidelines change.
The five stages, in order
Each stage assumes you have done the one before it. That is the whole point.
Foundation
Decide what you are actually buying and when
- Get clear on why you are buying, which changes what you should buy
- Set a target you can measure instead of a vague someday
- Build a timeline that fits your lease, your savings and your job
- Foundation quiz to see where you are starting from
Preparation
Credit and savings, early enough to matter
- Which parts of your credit profile lenders weigh, and which ones they do not
- Down payment sources beyond your savings account, including gift and assistance options that may be available
- How to keep a reserve without stalling your purchase
- Preparation quiz to track what has moved
Qualification
Getting pre-qualified without the back and forth
- How to compare lenders on the things that actually differ
- What documents to gather up front so underwriting does not stall
- Loan programs worth asking about, including ones most first-time buyers never hear of
- How rate shopping affects your credit, and the window that protects you
Home Purchase
Finding it, offering on it, closing on it
- How to shop with a filter instead of touring everything
- What makes an offer attractive to a seller beyond the price
- What to do with an inspection report, including what is worth asking for
- The closing timeline, step by step, so nothing arrives as a surprise
Investment
What to do after you own it
- How equity builds, and the ways owners typically use it
- When a refinance is worth running the numbers on
- How a first home can become a rental later
- Building a longer plan around the property you just bought
What comes with it
The five stages
- Foundation and goal setting
- Credit and savings preparation
- Getting pre-qualified
- House hunting and negotiation
- Building equity after you close
Tools in every stage
- A workbook for each stage
- Progress tracking worksheets
- Knowledge check quizzes
- Quick reference checklists
- Access that does not expire
- Updates when guidelines change
If you want to ask a question
- Email a licensed loan officer about your specific situation
- Book a consultation when and if you want one
- No obligation attached to either
Who built it
- Rich Flanery, Broker Owner, Peak Capital Mortgage LLC
- 30+ years in mortgage lending
- Over $1 billion in loans funded across his career
- NMLS #256117
Your cost
$0
Every stage, every worksheet, every checklist. No credit card, no hidden fees, nothing sold to you inside the course.
Who is behind it
The course is free and it stands on its own. But it is worth knowing who wrote it.
$1B+
In loans funded across Rich Flanery's career
30+
Years Rich has spent in mortgage lending
14
States Peak Capital Mortgage LLC is licensed in
18+
Wholesale lenders shopped for each client file
Your instructor is Rich Flanery, Broker Owner of Peak Capital Mortgage LLC, NMLS #256117.
Take it now, use it whenever you are ready
You do not have to be close to buying for this to be worth two hours. Most of what costs first-time buyers money happens long before they make an offer.
STEP 1
Start the course. All five stages, no credit card.
STEP 2
Work through it at your own pace. Stop and come back whenever you want.
STEP 3
Talk to our team when you are ready, or do not. The course stands on its own.
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