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Refinancing Home Loans
Homeowners should be careful to realize that since refinancing is essentially obtaining a new loan, the same kind of costs required at the origination of the first loan will be required for the second. However, a lower interest rate and monthly payment as well as "cashing-out" more than make up for these costs.
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Imperfect Credit
The federal government offers many programs for low income or those with blemished credit and special loans for those of you who are teachers or police officers. To find out more about these programs, visit the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s website at www.hud.gov, or the Veterans Administration at www.homeloans.va.gov.
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Home Construction Loans
Also, low income families or borrowers interested in building in certain target areas can qualify for FHA insured loans, enabling them to receive loans at lower interest rates with lower down payments.
Apply for your home construction loan using our free short form and contact up to four lenders today.
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Rates
There are several indexes on which interest rates are based:
- The Prime Rate is used by lenders for corporations and for their credit-worthy
applicants. It is very stable and tends not to differ from bank to bank. The
Prime Rate is used to predict the direction of rates, and the activity of
consumer loans often follows that of this index.
- U.S. Treasury Security Yields is an average of monthly rates during the
length of a one year U.S. Treasury security that is often used to set adjustable
rate mortgage and is published yearly by the Federal Reserve Board.
- The 11th District Cost of Funds is also used to set adjustable rate mortgages
and will often follow the same direction as the average of a one-year U.S.
Treasury security. Monthly, the 11th Federal Home Loan Bank District, which
includes California, Nevada and Arizona, publishes its weighted average interest
rate for the prior month.
- Federal Funds Rate is set by the Federal Open Market Committee and is the
interest rate on funds one bank lends to another overnight. This index affects
inflation and economic growth, and is decided on by the Federal Open Market
Committee.
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Mortgage Calc
A mortgage calc can also show you the difference that the term of your loan makes on your repayment schedule. A $997 monthly payment on a $150,000 loan at 7% over the period of 30 years with $209,263 in total interest may sound acceptable, but using the calculator you can compare this monthly payment to what would be paid on a shorter term loan. The same loan with a 15 year term would have higher monthly payment of 1,348, which is $351 more. However, the 15 year term would cut the total interest in half to the amount of 92,683. In this case, cutting your loan term in half and paying $351 more a month could save you over $100,000.
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Mortgage Refiancing
Mortgage refinancing is the repayment of a current mortgage using a new mortgage. This new mortgage should have an interest rate at least 2% lower than the original rate or else it may not be worthwhile for the homeowner. By obtaining a loan with a lower interest rate, you should be able to save hundreds, if not thousands the time your loan is paid off.
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Refinancing Your Home
Refinancing is much the same process as obtaining a first home loan. Credit and income both come into play when designing your new loan, and if either has diminished since your original loan, it may not pay to refinance.
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