Tips on Refinancing Your Home
Refinancing is ideal for homeowners who purchased their homes when mortgage interest rates were higher, and for individuals who received an adjustable rate mortgage. In these instances, refinancing for a lower interest rate will lower monthly payments, or provide homeowners with a fixed mortgage ...
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Understanding Fixed-rate Mortgages
A fixed-rate mortgage is a mortgage on which the interest rate is set for the term of the loan. Your interest rate stays the same for the term of the mortgage or for a specified period of time. Most people use a fixed-rate mortgage. In fact, about 75 percent of all home mortgages have fixed rates. ...
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Top 5 Methods to Manage Your Home Equity
As your home appreciates in value, you gain equity. You can look at this equity, as a portion of the value of your home, which becomes an asset that is not burdened by debt. Therefore, this is a critical financial vehicle that cannot be ignored.Let me say it another way. For most of us, your ...
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Refinancing Costs - What to Expect
Refinancing your current mortgage is a wise financial decision if you can recoup the costs of a refi. An average refinancing deal, you can expect to pay between two and six percent of the loan amount if fees and points. On average if you can lower your interest rate by two points, then you will ...
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The Way You Pay Depends on How Long You Plan to Stay
Are you needlessly spending hundreds of dollars more than you need to each month for your mortgage because you have the wrong loan type for your circumstances? Understand your options, and their costs. Don't make a 30-year mistake by making assumptions.If youre like most people, you've probably ...
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125% Home Equity Loans
Home equity loans are second mortgages and involve borrowing money against a home's equity. In most cases, homeowners obtain loans that correspond with their home's equity. However, it is possible to acquire a second mortgage for more than a home's worth.What is the 125% Home Equity Loan?The 125% ...
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Cash Out Refinancing
Refinancing is to pay off your existing mortgage with another one at a lower rate.A cash out refinance is refinancing your existing mortgage and borrowing some of your equity in a lump sum to use for other purposes. Such as home improvement, college tuition, family vacation, etc.Other reasons ...
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Deducting Points On Home Refinances
Deduction of Refinance PointsAny points that you pay in the refinancing of your residence are tax deductible over the length of the loan in question. The deduction is allowable only if the residence is your primary home and the new mortgage replaces a previous one and/or is used to improve the ...
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Benefits to Refinancing Your House Online
There are several methods to obtaining a refinanced home loan. Some homebuyers refinance through their current lenders, whereas others shop around for lenders offering better rates. Instead of applying for a new home loan through banks or mortgage companies, online mortgage brokers provide ...
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Can One Loan Be Best for Any Homeowner From 18-108?
How could one loan Satisfy the Needs of every homeowner? Yet Many people get a Home Loan for 30 years. Won't a persons needs change many times over the 30 year life of this loan? So the best loan for every homeowner would need to be flexible.When you buy your first home often your income will ...
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To Refinance or not to Refinance -- Here is the Answer
I have written many articles on refinancing a fixed rate mortgage to an adjustable rate mortgage. I have helped people cut as much as $800 off their monthly payments by turning their high fixed rate mortgage loan into a much lower ARM. This may be the time, however, to put the strategy in reverse ...
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Home Loans and Mortgages Watch Out for Dangerous Subprime Loans
With the growing interest in real estate purchasing and speculation, more and more lenders are offering nontraditional types of mortgages. These include adjustable rate mortgages (ARM) of every shape and size, the more popular interest-only mortgage, and the very dangerous Option ARM mortgage, ...
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Understanding the Loan to Value Ratio
These days many renters are taking advantage of the present low level of interest rates to get into a home of their own. In addition, many current homeowners are taking advantage of those same low interest rates to refinance their home mortgage loans at more favorable interest rates.Therefore, ...
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