How a Home Loan Refinancing can save you money - If you refinance your Texas Home Loan?

When it comes to refinancing, you have two options. A "rate and term" refinance or a home loan in Texas "collect" refinance.

With a home equity loan to pull your home or investment property.

Refinance most people to get a lower rate, which is called a "rate and term" refinance. One is to keep the same loan amount, they are just reducing or changing the rate or term of the mortgage.

Perhaps they are moving a note of 30 years to 15 years a note. This is called a rate and term refi because they are simply changing the type or duration of the original loan.

Interest rates mean lower mortgage payments lower. However, some customers choose a "cash out" refinancing (loan capital) - which means they pull equity (cash) from their home or investment property for other purposes ... the payment of the debt or the purchase of other goods.

For example, suppose a family has a car payment of $ 450 to be in the $ 15,000. If you have enough equity in your home, it is common for a family to refinance the house and pull enough cash out of your home to pay other debts expensive as credit cards, cars, etc. The house payment can go up $ 50, but removes the car payment. As a family has $ 400 more each month.

Some suggest home loans to pay the debt, stating that it is not prudent to adopt a debt of 3-5 years and spread over 15-30 years. And these people are right. However, when I help a customer save $ 400-500, sometimes $ 1000/month now these families can afford to pay more in their 30 years of mortgage and pay in 12-15 years.

In fact, in most cases a family will pay off soon after a home-home-loan than they would have before.

You can always call to see if Texas home loan in cash out refinancing makes sense for you.

Home Equity Rules

Home loans have higher rates than a traditional low rate and term refinances because it is an increase in the amount of the original loan. Most effective when it is pulled from a home or investment property is a high risk loan. Increased risk = increased slightly.

And in Texas it is limited to 80% of the value of your home. Meaning if your home is worth $ 200,000, most of the new loan can be $ 160,000. If you must 100K, you can get 60K or 80%

Then there is the 3% capital rule of origin: This means that all associated fees can not exceed 3% of the loan amount. Most effects smaller home loan balances. For example, if your house is only worth 75,000 and they are limited to 80% of your loan could only be 60K. 3% of 60k is $ 1800. So if your title company charges $ 700 for the title policy and your assessor charges $ 325 and the bank charges $ 500 to underwrite the loan is not difficult to be more than 3%. This would mean the mortgage company can only charge $ 275 to be under the 3% rule.

12 days Home Equity Rule, 3 days of waiting-to-to the bottom of the rule:

In Texas you must wait at least 12 days after the mortgage application to close. I have to get a special letter signed by 12 days. Then once we close, then it can not finance the home loan for 3 days. Texas is weird equity refinance rules of origin so that they want to work with an experienced mortgage company that does a lot of these loans. If you have additional questions, please call us at 512-996-8194, we help people throughout Texas.

For many people home equity refinancing can be a great way to launch a new financial plan. I offer my clients to help them: Get out of debt, pay bills, have more money to save and invest. My clients have saved hundreds each month by paying high interest credit cards. My personal record of a family saves $ 1000/month through a home loan.

Once you save the money you will pay more for your mortgage to pay a note of 30 years in 15 years. Therefore, it is used properly, a home equity mortgage is a great way to advance economically.

After 5 years in the mortgage business that have come with my philosophy of personal loans. Because anyone can make a mortgage loan. However, my business is to help people move ahead financially, from the level of the mortgage, the largest expense for a family.

Most of my clients know my personal philosophy with mortgage loans. There are a lot of mortgage people out there that promise "the lowest rate mortgage or 30 years of the" best 15 years of Texas Mtg type ", but this is not really my focus. I tend to favor what is best for the customer in the short and long term. If you need a mortgage in 15 years with low closing costs, we will use this program. Need to consolidate debt, we will use a home loan.

I just do not believe in one size fits all "mortgage schemes. As soon as all my clients look the same, the same income / debt, goals, and then I will be one size fits all mortgage types. But for now, working with low-income people, millionaires, investors, first time home buyers, second home mortgages, etc.

The mortgage can be a debt instrument or a better financial tool, it really depends on you and your mortgage professional. And in today's economy, where the realities of the $ 5 gas is not really reasonable to work with a professional who takes the time to listen and bring the right mortgage plan to the table. Because once a mortgage is in place you must live with it.

Some questions you should ask when purchasing or refinancing a home or investment property:

1) How much debt I have now? How much am I currently service the debt each month?

2) How much in liquid savings I have now? Could you choose a mortgage that will help (a) lower my bills, and (b) help me to save more money each month? Voting is important, but now the only thing to consider. Who cares if the rate of 15 years of mortgage rate is the best, if not affordable to you, although not the wisest loan. Go with the kind of 30 years.

3) How long do I plan to keep this house? Is this home appreciate?

4) What is my long-term financial plan, and how this new mortgage to help me carry out this plan?

# 4 is where the rubber meets the road. And here is where I spend most of my time with customers, building long-term plan, and then customizing the mortgage to suit this plan. Most people buy the lowest rate to reach households, however, not half goal from long range that usually end up paying more in the long term.

Take the sub-prime merger. There's nothing wrong with sub-prime loans. Sometimes things happen that cause people to get credit in the trash. Divorce is sometimes the case and the medical bills and not leaving when people have a lot of collections. Sometimes lost jobs and savings use before they were originally. The problem of sub-prime loans that are not bad, but we need to look at the fees. It is not adjustable. This country has lost billions of dollars over the sub-prime merger for a reason: The people chased the lowest rate when they bought the house and the arms have the lowest rates to fixed rates. And since the lowest rates WEAPONS people had elected their arms on fixed rates.

Therefore, thousands of people with poor credit bought houses for weapons and today we have a big problem: Who chased the lowest rate.

Having a long-term financial plan. Example, suppose you are self-employed and do not have a retirement plan business-to-401k trust. One approach in solving the "no 401K/IRA" problem is the ownership of property. The goal is proper to take the properties so that when you retire you have paid these properties and creating passive income for retirement. Imagine if their mortgages took the time to understand their long-term goals and the new loan structured around these objectives. The funny thing, most people 15-30 years of retirement and the typical home loan is paid in 15-30 years. In a nutshell: The house you buy today could help you retire tomorrow and you need the right home loan to go along with it.

Remember, most mortgages are based on a 15 or 30 years, why not structure your first home to help you retire in 30 years. I know it seems unrealistic because most people do not maintain homes that long, but going into a mortgage with a plan is better than simply going into foreclosure.

Most people do not want to take the time to think about the money, but in the end the lack of money causes a lot of other problems in life.

This is how I am different from other people Mortgage Texas. I think I can help people, either financially or advance can lead to debt. Ensure that it is easier to "sell low" but not at the expense of helping a client in the long term.

PMI (only with no-or at least try to get out of it.)

My customers whenever possible to avoid PMI. However, it is a 80/15 or 80/10 or 80/10/10 of a mortgage rate is slightly higher, but the benefit is to avoid unnecessary PMI and with lower closing costs. This is another example of why "chasing the lowest rate is not always the best. Loans with PMI are better than loans. But the benefit of not having PMI is enormous. Not only will pay less if their mortgage is not PMI, but is less closing costs too.

Now I want to briefly touch on these 3 items and why you should be thinking about to buy or refinance a home. In fact, your mortgage person to customize their loan on these three points for you. If no management. If all that sells is a type of mortgage that really serve?

Mortgage brokers and banks love to advertise low mortgage rates. "We have the lowest rates in Texas!" But think about the loan: "How much does it cost to achieve this rate." Mtg rates are low because the one thing, but how much will it cost to get the fare?

Let's look at one of today's announcements mortgage. (April 17) is advertising a rate of 4.87%.

Funny. The actual rate of 30 years is about 6%, but people want to know "low" so that advertise a great guy. But looking at the points needed to obtain this rate, you will see there is more to get a mortgage to make an assessment. Closing costs.

For example, if you're buying a home $ 200K if you really "the rate of purchase" with points to get a good guy? To get this low, low rate, which will cost $ 6000 just to discount points. And yet, people do this all the time. People advertising low mortgage rates, because people want low fares.

Sorta reminds me of when I bought my Toyota Tundra. I wanted to save a nickel so I went for the 2 × 4 instead of 4 × 4 all-wheel drive. I was so proud of getting the "lowest price in town", but when snow or ice that I had to ask my wife to drive his Honda Accord car in front wheels.

This is one reason why I suggest working with a mortgage broker (like me) that the approaches of mortgage loans of a total financial planning perspective. I realize that if a client has a lot of credit cards and misc. 6K debt should not go towards a new (tax deductible), but to pay old debt, high interest debt is not tax deductible.

Or the use of real numbers, if you have to pay a $ 6000 debt, the retirement of 15% interest of the debt that costs you $ 500/month instead of trying to save $ 200 on your mortgage. Then pay $ 100 extra and you still save $ 300. Use this $ 300 for savings, investment or fun.

But what about all the interest you save by having a low rate? Should not try to get the best rate so you can have less monthly bills? Yes Once you're out of consumer debt and no longer have to pay $ 500, will begin implementing $ 100 - $ 200 extra on your mortgage payment. This will take years off your mortgage, usually taking a mortgage in 30 years a 12-15 years. This will save you tons in interest and make lower payments.

When you buy or refinance any property, take the time to look at the bigger picture, because a mortgage or refinance can help you move forward to you financially or debt.

Jon Spears is a licensed mortgage broker in Austin, Texas, and helping families across Texas to buy or refinance homes. He specializes in the purchase money and refinancing mortgages. It also helps people to consolidate bills with a home loan in Texas. It also helps people buy and refinance investment properties.