The Day Has Arrived That day that you thought was far off in the future when you signed for your adjustable rate mortgage has come. Yes, it’s time for your interest rate to adjust and you don’t know what to expect. Perhaps you secured a low initial rate by going with the ARM or you planned […]
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Don’t Just Churn Your Finances Once you have closed on your mortgage, collected the keys and settled into your new home, you might start thinking about how you can get a better deal. Maybe your payments are high, compared to the market rate, or you want to change the term over which you repay the […]
Information Is The Key For Self-Employed Borrowers Independent professionals and freelance workers lack the paperwork that lenders rely on to determine the financial condition of employed applicants. About six percent of the non-agricultural workforce is self-employed. When self-employed people want to purchase homes, they find that they live in a different financial world than the […]
Private investors often act as lenders to finance deals that provide reliable security on which to earn income and asset growth. This sector of real estate lending and investment is the least regulated, which is a good thing because you can get creative to add value in the deal; it also means that you need […]
The Adjustment Depends On The Index When you take out an adjustable rate mortgage (ARM), you agree to allow your lender to make periodic adjustments to the interest rate that you pay on the balance of your home loan. The mechanics of the adjustments come from the terms that you agreed to at the beginning […]
Where is the logic in the way that lenders choose interest rates? Why are fifteen-year home loans cheaper than thirty-year mortgages? To understand how banks and finance companies set prices you have to look at it from their perspective, the point of view of the people who are lending the money. They are in it to […]
The question of the cost of refinancing your mortgage is simple enough on the surface, but the details and the fees add up and appear before you begin and then over the lifetime of the new loan. You need to look carefully at the costs of a refi before you commit to even formally applying […]
Spouses Go Solo They do say that two can live as cheaply as one and a marital partnership usually supports the case for homeownership. However, occasionally one partner has a mark on their credit history that makes the exception to this rule. In such situations, it might be better to leave them off the loan […]
It is a fact of modern life that if you have attended college in the last decade, you are likely to carry a debt from the effort. You might have ambitious plans about how you want to live your life and find that this debt is the greatest obstacle in your path. Specifically, how do […]
What Is A Home Equity Line Of Credit? Do you have enough equity in your home to cash out and use it to increase your overall wealth? If you do, be forewarned that this is both an opportunity and a temptation that you could potentially misuse to your financial detriment. A home equity line of […]
