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Refinancing
Refinancing is often used to lower your
interest rate. If rates have dropped since you last financed your
home, you may want to consider refinancing. Other common reasons to
refinance include paying off a balloon payment, converting an adjustable
rate loan to a fixed rate loan or to extract cash equity in your home
(cash out). A few reasons for cashing out include: home improvement,
an education fund, and consolidating debt.
Another way to convert equity in your home to cash is a “home
equity” loan. A “home equity” loan is an alternative
to refinancing if your home loan has a very low rate compared to current
interest rates or if you have a prepayment penalty on your loan.
In order to refinance you will need a current appraisal, analysis
and in many cases verification of your income and assets, as well
as most of the same paperwork required when you originally financed
your home. Adequate property insurance and new title insurance is
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