Refinance Home Mortgage Loans With Poor Credit - Reduce Monthly Bills With A Refi Loan

Author: Carrie Reeder

Reducing consumer debts will ease anxiety and open the door for better rates on a home loan or mortgage. Unfortunately, becoming debt-free is a long process, and it may take several years to achieve this goal. If you own a home, refinancing your existing mortgage - even with poor credit - may present extra cash to payoff high interest credit cards.

What Does it Mean to Refinance a Home Mortgage?

Refinancing a home loan is an everyday practice. There are several reasons to contemplate a refinancing. For starters, if you attain a cash-out refinancing, the mortgage company will hand over a lump sum of money at closing. Prior to this, homeowners apply for a new home loan, which replaces the old. In addition to creating a new mortgage, homeowners also borrow money from their home's equity. For example, refinancing an existing $125,000 mortgage, and borrowing $25,000 of the home's equity will produce a new mortgage of $150,000.

Advantages of Refinancing an Existing Mortgage

If your intent is to become debt-free in the shortest amount of time, refinancing your home is a great alternative. High interest credit cards are difficult to eliminate. Unless you are able to make large payments, it may take ten to twenty years to payoff a $2,000 credit card balance. Moreover, a new mortgage is great for acquiring funds to make home improvements, build a savings account, or plan for retirement. Homeowners with poor credit may increase their credit rating upon reducing or eliminating consumer debts.

When is the Best Time to Refinance?

For many homeowners, now is a good time to refinance their current mortgage. Individuals who obtained home mortgages before rates began to decline are likely paying two or three percentage points above the current average. Refinancing for a lower rate may decrease your mortgage payment. Moreover, refinancing may eliminate private mortgage insurance.

With low mortgage rates, refinancing for a fixed rate or interest-only option may be favorable. Before refinancing, count the costs. Remember, refinancing will entail paying closing costs. If the monthly savings are insignificant, or you plan on moving in less than five years, you will not benefit from a refi loan.

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Free Seminars Reveals How Any Homeowner Can Pay Off Their Home Mortgage In As Little As 7 Years...

Author: Ed Bisquera

...With Little To No Change To Income or Spending Habits! Little known mortgage concept pioneered in Australia that US banks don't want homeowners to know about will be revealed in seminars presented by Money Principal Group

Portland, OR (MP 02/17/06) - Utilizing the flexible mortgage account concept pioneered in Australia, mortgage education and loan company Money Principal Group of Utah has produced a patent-pending mortgage home loan program entitled ""The MPG Mortgage Eliminator.""

Homeowners and future first-time homebuyers can learn about The MPG Mortgage Eliminator through a series of seminars from Money Principal Group, presented live as well as through web-based andtelephone-based seminars. Webinars and teleseminars are available to those that aren't able to attend the live seminars in their area.

""We are conducting these seminars and presentations to reveal to homeowners the closely guarded knowledge on how to 'be their own bank.' Homeowners can 'be their own bank' through combining their home mortgage and bank account into ONE account and can see TREMENDOUS savings over the life of their mortgage,"" says Ed Bisquera, representative for Money Principal Group. ""It's a simple concept based on mortgage cycling and simple time-tested cash flow principles. Really what this accomplishes, is reduce the effects of compound interest and returns the interest spread banks normally earn, back into the pockets of homeowners.""

The basis of the program is to show homeowners how to use their mortgage as an all-in-one bank account, which can help them to pay off their home in as little as 7 years, with very little change to current household income or spending habits.

This concept has helped over sixty percent of homeowners in Australia achieve this where it was originally pioneered by Citibank over 30 years ago. The flexible mortgage account is now a widely popular mortgage concept in Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, South Africa and Canada.

People interested in these seminars should call or visit the website to reserve a spot, as the seminars fillup quickly due to its' popularity and are limited to a small attendance.

A schedule of future seminars and a reservation can be requested by calling a free recorded message hotline at 1-800-862-0784 ext. 12 or by visiting their website at http://www.PDXLoan.com/12/.

About the author: Ed Bisquera, an event planner, music producer and an author, has worked with record executives and Fortune 500 companies like Sony Records and Microsoft. He resides near Portland, Oregon and manages blogs http://blog.PDXWebMedia.com and http://blog.PDXLoan.com. Articles, interviews and consulting available at 1-800-862-0784 ext 0.

Refinance & Mortgage Tips: Down Payment With Gift Letter

Author: Tristan Hunt

If you are a first time home buyer who has been out shopping for that dream house, you've probably already heard your real estate agent or property developer's first question: ""How much will you be putting down?"" If you have excellent credit, several years of consistent income on record and a relatively long history of using credit wisely, you may qualify for 100% financing, often referred to as a ""No Money Down Mortgage"" or ""Zero Down Home Loan"". But for the majority of new borrowers, a down payment is a prerequisite to buying a house, and finding 20% to 30% or more of the purchase price of a house can very often entail getting the money from family or friends. Getting that much money together can be tricky enough, however lenders will also require that every dollar used for a down payment be documented back to a specific funding source, and this can be particularly difficult when the money comes from a third party, which is why we have ""Gift Letters"".

Newlyweds and young people generally have neither sufficient credit history nor income consistency to qualify for 100% financing, and are also the least likely to have sufficient savings and acceptable documentable assets to actually come up with the cash to make the down payment. Members of the family are in some ways the best and very often the only available source of down payment assistance available to ""green"" borrowers. Your lender generally will only allow you to use money given to you by a true family member, i.e. your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, grandfather, grandmother, first cousin, etc. This means that you cannot use funds given to you by people who are really not family members, for example your friends or colleagues, however you may be able to use funds from a non-family third party if you can provide documentation of a very close and long lasting relationship. This is done primarily to prevent people from taking out personal loans which will have to be repaid to come up with their down payment, which have the potential to throw off the person's debt to income ratio, or DTI. Basically, they don't want you to take on more debt than they believe you can safely repay, otherwise they would have qualified you for 100% financing.

If you find yourself in a situation where you need to get money from your folks or other family to make a down payment on your new house, you will be required to prove that you did not borrow the money from them with an expectation on their part that it be repaid or with an intention on your part to repay it. In fact, both you and your family will need to prove to your lender that the money was given to you, in the form of a Gift. To verify that the funds are in fact given freely, your lender will require special documentation.

If you are applying for a new mortgage, you should receive as part of your loan application package a special form called a ""Gift Letter"". The goal of this letter is to identify the source of the funds and assure the lender that they are in fact a gift. Typically, a gift letter will include the name of donor, the name of the recipient, the relationship between the two parties, the amount of the gift, the address of the property for which the gift is to be used to pay for, the fact that no repayment is required or expected, and an assurance that the person making the gift or the source of funds is not in nay way party or beneficiary to the transaction, e.g. not the broker, seller, agent, loan officer, builder and so on. In most cases the person giving the gift will be required to document where the money came from, such as a bank account or a brokerage account. If you are depositing the funds directly into escrow, or even if they are going into your bank account, take some precautions to document the transfer by keeping copies of the checks or deposit tickets/receipts from the bank/escrow agent.

About the author: Tristan Hunt is a seasoned financial professional with a wealth of experience in the mortgage industry, advising clients on debt consolidation, refinancing & investor loans . Website: http://www.RefinanceOne.net