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Self Employed: Buy a Home Before or After You File Taxes?

Published on: 11/13/2026

Self employed and about to file a return full of legitimate write offs? How filing season changes a full doc mortgage, why a bank statement loan reads deposits instead, what an extension does, and a worked example. Pillar Mortgage Group.

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