VA Home Loans
Whether you are building a new home, buying a new home, improving a home you already own or are refinancing your existing loan, a VA home loan can ensure that you receive a low interest rate even if you have no down payment. Fill out our free short form today to contact lenders about your VA home loan.
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Bad Credit Refinance
Debt consolidation can help you get from under the stress and pressure of collections calls and the mountain of bills that come to you each month in the mail. Refinancing all of your small loans into one larger one will allow you to have one monthly payment. This will help you pay off your debt more easily, generally with a lower interest rate and often lower monthly payments. Also, lenders understand that applicants looking for to refinance in order to consolidate debt usually have damaged credit and so the requirements for this type of refinancing would be more lenient.
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Home Equity
Home equity is the amount of the value of your home that you own, meaning what you have already paid for. This amount can be calculated by subtracting your mortgage from the total market value of your home. For example a house worth $180,000 with a $100,000 mortgage has an equity of $80,000. Generally, lenders will allow a homeowner to borrow 80-85% of their home equity. Fill out our short form to contact lenders about your home equity loan. Alternatively, a secured home equity loans application can be found here.
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Land Loan
Land loans are consistently perceived to be of greater risks by lenders. The lenders require great detail about the proposed home that will be built because they want to be sure that the sale price of the home where it will be located isn’t less than the original loan amount. For this reason, lending institutions that are far away geographically from the land lot will often not make the loan on the basis of knowing very little about the property and the property values of the surrounding area.
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Mortgage Calculation
Mortgage calculation can also help you plan whether or not you would like to include extra payments in your repayment schedule. On the loan of $150,000 at 7% interest with a 30 year term and a monthly payment of $997, one extra yearly payment can save a homeowner nearly $50,000 in interest payments. If this loan had a 15 year term, the difference that of extra yearly payment would be far less impressive, saving just over $9,500. If you are interested in making an extra yearly payment and feel you it will not put too much strain on your finances, it is a good idea to discuss this with your lender. Extra payments can cause you to finish paying your balance before the scheduled end of the repayment period and some lenders have prepayment fees, so you should check to make sure there are no such penalties or include these extra payments in your repayment schedule.
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Mortgages Online

Other basic but important terms to understand are:

• Principal is the amount borrowed (on which interest acts) which is repaid monthly
• Amortization is the process of repaying the amount borrowed through monthly payments of principal and interest.
• Negative amortization is when the monthly payment is not high to adequately pay the loan off. In this case interest builds too quickly and the principal grows instead of decreasing. This can occur because of lender scams or because of monthly payment caps.
• Equity is the value of your house left over after subtracting the total of your mortgage. If your house has a market value of $130,000 and a mortgage of $100,000, the equity is $30,000.
• An index is used to determine the rate on an adjustable rate loan. For some loans this rate may be the Prime Rate or the average rate of a one year Government Treasury Security.