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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Refinancing Saves Your Home Or Your Money

By James Weekson

People who have an existing mortgage should seek to keep their homes even in stressful economic times. Allowing your mortgage companies to foreclose your property is a bad idea. If you did not already know, not doing anything just grows your debt exponentially because of interests being compounded. If you can no longer afford your monthly mortgage payments, there's a better way to keeping your property than doing nothing: refinancing.

A simple way of understanding what refinance means is it is taking out a second mortgage to then pay off the existing mortgage. Recently it is not always the situation as it is being used as troubled debt restructuring which is allowing creditors to collect on a bad debt and giving the debtors some relief from their debt.

When these circumstances occur to do a refinance there is a little "tweaking" of the interest, principal, rate and repayment period. When you go to refinance your mortgage the loans present value is calculated so that the new principal total would usually include a portion of the remaining unpaid from the original loan plus interest and surcharges, if there are any applicable.

Once the new principal is fixed then you need to negotiate a new interest rate and most often the rates allowed will depend upon the current market averages. The market rates always fluctuate, but refinancing is usually a good move when the rates are low. If refinancing is done in order to restructure debt that is causing trouble, then the interest rate is negotiable regardless of what the conditions on the market are.

In all cases, when a refinance bears a lower interest rate than the original mortgage. This allows the debtor more affordable monthly payments. During times when market rates are high, creditors make up for the difference by allowing a longer repayment period.

Over the life of the refinanced mortgage, your creditors are likely to have made more money in interest. That doesn't, however, make it an option you would generally think twice about, especially if your existing mortgage is already in trouble. The incremental increase in total interest you pay until the mortgage is paid off is almost always a bargain. If the exchange value you get is being able to afford your monthly payments and keep ownership over your home, it is worth it.

Recently, though, refinancing mortgages now has a different meaning for those who own a home. Even though refinancing is mostly a way of restructuring a troubled mortgage, there are those who use it as a way to save on interest payments. The same factors still play a role in this case and they are the interest rates, repayment period and principal loan amount.

In order to save on the costs of paying interest, a homeowner can negotiate on the existing mortgage so that they will be able to enjoy the benefits of lower interest rates or reducing the term for repayment if it is possible to pay higher monthly payments. Regardless of what the situation is, the bank still has its advantages since the repayment is sped up and the risk of defaulting and foreclosing is reduced. Especially banks prefer cash over inventory, because the latter has to be maintained and costs more on upkeep. - 23229

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