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December 6, 2008

Is there any advantage in escrowing with the lender?

Yes, there certainly is. If everything works as well as it should, the escrow service will save you the personal headache of keeping up with the property tax and insurance payments schedule all through the years of your mortgage. Even the loss of a certain amount to the interest that the lender is going to [...]

November 29, 2008

Mortgage Escrows

The system of mortgage escrow accounts was created with good intentions. On the one hand it was to make the lender happy, because the lender got some guarantee that no lien prior to his own will be put on the mortgaged property through taxes or insurance, on the other hand, it was to save the [...]

April 17, 2008

Refinancing (Part II)

 Why do people refinance? All for different reasons, of course, but the most common ones are: To obtain a lower interest rate, To build the equity of their property faster, To change the type of their loan, To take advantage of an improved credit rating, To get some cash out of the equity already built [...]

March 27, 2008

Discount Points (Points)

Points are quite a useful tool helping a borrower to lower the interest rate on his mortgage loan. The price of one point equals to 1% of the amount you borrow. If you pay this 1% amount in cash at the loan origination, the interest rate of your loan will drop by usually 0.25 percentage [...]