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Create Your Path to Homeownership
Get budgeting tools and learn steps to boosting credit, paying down debt and building emergency savings – all valuable to getting in a great financial position for a mortgage and for a lifetime!
Credit Builder is a custom, empowering journey to homeownership and control of your overall finances – one that includes free one-on-one financial coaching, self-directed learning and guidance from Summit.

Your Step-by-Step to the Credit Builder Path

  1. Let us know you’re interested by filling out the form below. Once we hear from you, we’ll get in touch with more details and next steps. As a heads up, the program takes about 6-12 months for most participants, but you’d have up to 24 months to complete it.
  2. Gain knowledge that helps you qualify for a mortgage AND build long-term financial security. These insights you can act on come from the program’s side-by-side learning approaches below:
    • Work one-on-one with a Summit Financial Coach. You’ll meet with your coach to talk through your goals and create an individualized plan, with recommendations to help you understand the exact steps you can take to get where you want to be.
    • Complete 5 designated financial education courses. Your activity-based, online courses will take about 4 hours in total, though you can do them right from home on your schedule. You’ll get budgeting tools and learn steps to boosting credit, paying down debt and building emergency savings – all valuable to getting in a great financial position for a mortgage and for a lifetime! Your coach is available to answer your questions along the way and help you apply what you learn.
  3. Confirm program completion in your final coach review meeting. Once you’re done with your courses, your coach will meet with you to confirm you’ve met your goals and program criteria, taken positive steps to put yourself in a strong financial position, and gotten the knowledge and tools you need for financial success. Then you’re awarded a program certificate, and your Summit Mortgage Loan Officer submits your mortgage application for review!

Ready to Get in a Great Position for a Home?


Fill out the form below to let us know you’re interested in our Credit Builder path. This program could be your chance at a faster path to a home you love! 
**Due to program eligibility requirements, participation in the Credit Builder path is not guaranteed by completing this form. The Women Build Equity team will be in touch with more details and next steps once we receive your form.
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