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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Refinancing Saves Your Home Or Your Money

By James Weekson

Even if tough economic times it is important that home owners find ways to keep their house, because going along with a foreclosure is never a good idea. If you haven't realized it before, not taking any action only results in your debt growing exponentially due to the compounding of interest. If you are no longer able to keep up with your monthly payments for a mortgage then refinancing is a good choice that will help you keep your home.

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.

It is favorable, no matter what, if you refinance and get a lower interest rate than you had previously since the monthly payments will be more affordable for the debtor. The creditors make up the difference by giving a longer repayment time when the market rates are up.

The creditors more than likely will make money on the refinanced mortgage. However, that doesn't really matter if you already were having trouble with the first existing mortgage. The increments in which the total interest increases until the mortgage is paid off is still in most cases a bargain and especially if you will be able to pay your monthly mortgage and keep your home.

In recent times however, refinancing a mortgage has taken on a new purpose for homeowners. Although it is still primarily a means to restructure troubled mortgages, some homeowners actively consider refinancing as a way to actually save on interest payments. In this case, homeowners and their creditors play with the same factors - principal, interest rates and repayment period.

To save on interest costs, homeowners renegotiate an existing mortgage to take advantage of low interest rates or to shorten the repayment terms, if they can comfortably afford to make higher monthly payments. Holding all things equal, this situation still favors the bank or mortgage company as it speeds up repayment and reduces the risk of defaults and foreclosures. Banks, especially, prefer cash to inventories because it costs more to keep and maintain properties than to use cash. - 23159

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