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How to Refinance Your Mortgage
Author David Schneider | May 23,2007
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Fran was a mortgage broker who had 25 years of experience. She had walked thousands of first time homebuyers through the loan application process and everyone considered her an expert in the field. This summer she was asked to teach a seminar on how to refinance your mortgage. As Fran prepared for her seminar, she thought about all of the topics that she wanted to cover including selecting a lender, selecting a mortgage, filling out an application and gathering the required documentation. As she gathered her reference materials, she wished there was an easier way for borrowers to refinance their mortgage.
How to Refinance Your Mortgage
If you are ready to refinance your mortgage, you first need to determine what elements you don't like about your current mortgage and what elements you would like your next mortgage to have. Some of the problems that mortgages can have include high interest rates, high closing costs and unfavorable terms. On the other hand, favorable elements that you will want to look for in your next mortgage include reasonable interest rates, the term that you are interested in, low or no application and lender fees, reduced closing costs, no points and flexible payment terms.
With these characteristics in mind, you are now ready to select the mortgage product that you want to use to refinance your mortgage. You have several options. If you have alright credit, you may want to take advantage of the attractive introductory interest rates offered by adjustable rate mortgages, or you may want to apply for a bad credit loan. If you have good credit, then you will want to use prime rate mortgage products.
After you decide what type of mortgage you want to use to refinance your mortgage, your next step is to find a lender. Your search for a lender will probably start with one of your bank's loan officers. You can use the terms and rates that they offer as a great baseline for your rate and term comparisons. Before you select a lender, make sure that you utilize QuoteMatch.com's mortgage quote referral service. This service will match you with a variety of lenders from their pre-screened database. The lenders will then generate a mortgage quote for you and email it to you. You can use these quotes to compare and contrast the interest rates, terms and products that are available with what your personal banker offered.
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Finding the right lender is one of the most important steps in the “how to refinance your mortgage” process. The right lender will offer you great customer service, great terms, great loan products and great interest rates. Go to QuoteMatch.com today to start your search for the perfect lender. |
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