Friday, February 12, 2016

Bad credit and refinancing

Bad credit mortgage refinancing is the process of refinancing a home mortgage when the homeowner has bad credit but a home with substantial equity. Bad credit may be due to the delay or missing of payments or because of too many outstanding debts on the part of the homeowner. If the homeowner has bad credit, obviously he has to depend on credit card debt or some other consumer debt to finance his house. All these debts will bear higher rates of interest when compared to bad credit mortgage refinancing. At this moment, the homeowner wishes to refinance his home to receive best interest rates. However the interest rate on bad credit mortgage refinancing will be higher than the ordinary cash-out home mortgage refinancing but not as much as that on the credit card debt or consumer debt. Thus the payments will be smaller under bad credit home mortgage refinancing than those under the consumer debt.


Moreover the term of the loan under bad credit will be longer which is useful to the homeowner. The homeowner will cash out either a part or full of his house equity. The best way of bad credit mortgage refinancing to pay off high interest bills is opting for debt consolidation loan. The homeowner with bad credit can think about refinancing the bad credit mortgage only if the percentage of the interest rate on the new mortgage is less than that on the old one by at least two points and the homeowner stays at the house for at least three years. Generally the new loan will be for a higher amount with which the homeowner should pay off all his original debts and with the remaining amount he should try to improve his good credit rating. The borrower has to shop around online to get awareness about different types of loans and different interest rates because sometimes the lenders may charge different interest rates for the same type of loan. The owners should be very careful before entering the refinancing agreement while checking up all the terms and conditions and the fee involved.


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