Legally, immediately. With that said, there are economic reasons why it may not be a good idea for you to refinance. If you have a prepayment penalty, you’re going to have to save a lot of money to make it worth paying that penalty. Suppose you have a rate of 7 percent, and an penalty …
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Yesterday I dealt with a very disturbing phone call from a would be client. He was very happy with the way I found bargain properties, and wanted me to find him such a property. All very well and good. But he said that a condition of the transaction had to be that he would receive …
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One of the most discounted investments available is the annuity. An annuity can be thought of as the opposite of a life insurance policy. Instead of creating an lump sum of money, an annuity liquidates one by providing you instead with a stream of income. The original idea is simple. Suppose you get a lump …
I try to update the site Monday Wednesday and Friday. Sometimes, however, when I try to go to the login screen I get a note that the string is too long and cannot log in. If anyone knows Word Press well enough to advise me on the problem, that would be appreciated. Interestingly, it has …
after Katrina I am upside down with my mortgage.my house is uninhabitable. My flood insurance checkdoesn’t payoff the mortgage. How can i get a short payoffdue to financial hardship – i.e. relocation loss of jobs andsteady income? This is one of the hard truths about mortgages. They are a contract between you and the lender …
Sooner or later, a pretty fair proportion of the population are going to get an offer for a much better job, but the catch is that job is located in another city on the opposite end of the country. What are the major issues relating to the mortgage? Well, first off, the relocating spouse may …
“I am married but want to refinance my house only in my name. What do I have to do?” This is actually pretty easy, and there are at least two ways to potentially accomplish this, depending upon lender policy and the law in your area. Most lenders policies require the property to be titled in …
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One of the phenomena that I am encountering is fear of the market in buyers. They are concerned that prices are falling, and that they will lose some or all of their investment. Well, the first thing to understand is that buyer’s markets are not the time for “flippers”. You are not going to buy …
For being the most popular investments in the country, many people have a “black box” picture of mutual funds. Money goes in one end and more money (usually) comes out the other. Mutual companies in general are a very old concept. The Egyptians had them in ancient times, mostly for insurance purposes. For one time …
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Got a question asking if zero cost loans really exist. They do. I’ve done several dozen myself, for clients who listened to me about the nature of the market. Let me define what a zero cost loan is. It is a loan with a higher rate deliberately chosen so as to get a high enough …
