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blackeye1020
June 19, 2009 at 10:17 am
Mike
June 19, 2009 at 10:28 am
Regardless, of whether or not you close, let me see if I understand this correctly. You have refinanced your home and taken money out in order to help pay for your daughter's wedding. I don't want to sound preachy, but that is simply a terrible financial decision. You're putting your home at risk for a five hour event.
Raziboy
June 19, 2009 at 2:52 pm
You will want to contact a mortgage banker/broker from your local telephone book or a referral from a friend or family member. Tell that person that you want a rate and term refinance with all cost rolled into the new mortgage loan.
With a mortgage loan such as this you will not get any cash in your hand and the minimum equity would be used for this transaction. You could also possibly lose the PMI requirement that is required by your current mortgage.
You might also check and see if your current mortgage company will do this rate and term refinance with you, only they will call it a stream line refinance. If your current mortgage company is able to do the stream line it will be a lot less paperwork because they have most of the information needed.
I hope this has been of some use to you, good luck.
"FIGHT ON"
Sally S
June 20, 2009 at 9:48 am
It could be worth it, but you have to do the math though. You just don't want to end up upside down on it though.
Get an appriasal
Get a Good Faith Estimate from Countrywide to check for points or other hidden costs.
If the new loan is less than your appraised value, and your payments will be less then yeah it may be worth it.
Get set up on an accelerated pay plan where you make a 1/2 payment twice a month. Also send in a seperate check for the next month's pricipal payment. That will help you make up lost ground on you refi's, and help you to pay off the mortgage sooner.
Don
June 21, 2009 at 4:25 am
aintthtapeach
June 21, 2009 at 12:44 pm
First of all, Chase can't put a lien on the triplex. At least not like that. They would have to go to court and get a judgment first before they could legally do anything.
I am wondering what the reasoning was behind refinancing that tri-plex in the first place. If you already had a loan on it in good standing, what was the reason? And Country Wide is usually sub-prime mortgages so why didn't you refinance with the original lender?
Can she qualify for a loan back with the original lender? Or some other lender?
If monthly payments have gone up, it's because YOU got an adjustable rate 2 years ago thinking interest rates were never going to go up. Adjustable rate means just that. If the rates go up, so does your payment.
What is the $5000 Cwide has added? You didn't explain what that was. They can't just add $5000 on, unless you've been making late payments and you've gotten a bunch of fees added on.
Stop using the credit cards. If you've got a credit card with a 29% interest rate, why on earth would you charge something on it and then not pay the whole bill off when it comes. If you pay the entire bill every month, there is ZERO interest. If you charge a bunch of stuff up on it, then you get to pay interest.
Call Chase. Tell them you are in financial difficulty and work out a payment plan with them. Letting it go 90 days in arrears isn't going to work.
You're Mom DOES deserve to die not bankrupt and I'm wondering why her daughter (you) decided to go refinance her house and get her into this mess.
By the way, an additional point of information, when Mom dies, all of her assets, including the tri-plex will be sold and all of her debt will be paid, including the Chase card, BEFORE anything gets paid to heirs so you may need to get some financial counseling and figure this out. You may want to consider selling the tri-plex now and just renting the unit you're living in from the new owner.
Bond007
June 21, 2009 at 1:51 pm
OK well there are a bunch of parts to that so I will do my best to provide some light to you on your journey.
To refinance your mortgage you are essentiall paying off the first mortgage with a new one. this can be done many ways either keeping the same loan terms or extending or shortening the term; all of these will raise or lower your payment.
Locking in a new rate can mean one of two things: the first being that the current mortgage is an ARM or adjustable rate mortgage where the loan is about to ratchet up to a new interest rate. or you are just in a position to be able to benefit from a lower interest rate due to the rate reductions of late. Basically it is trying to get the loan holder to get a new loan at a different and hopefully better rate.
Now the cashing out equity part is generally a bad idea as house values are going down and it will increase your debt which would be bad if all of a sudden you need to sell so in today's market a home equity cash out is pretty much a bad thing, however having a home equity line of credit isnt so bad in case of emergency where you need to tap into some cash, have the line of credit but dont use it unless it is a real emergency.
Of course Countrywide is being bought by BoA but that doesn't affect you or your parents. it just means somebody else owns countrywide.
The letter is probably for real but if you dont own the condo then you probably will not directly benefit from it. Your parents may be in a position to lower their payments or protect their loan but it is up to them to investigate based on their current loan terms.
hope that helps
Deee
June 22, 2009 at 1:40 am
You can refi with any lender you want
seeker
June 22, 2009 at 8:27 am
If you're with Countrywide, you're in a good position with 6.5%. On the wholesale broker side, I can tell you that Countrywide does not have a pre-payment penalty. Also, it would be worth refinancing and incurring more closing cost's on your mortgage. 6.5% isn't the best, but its pretty decent these days. I'm assuming you went through a "retail" branch of Countrywide instead of using a Mortgage Broker.
copy and paste this website to your browser, and it will show you how much faster you'll pay off a 20 yr mortgage if you double you're payment:
http://www.eloan.com/s/amortcalc?context=purch&sid=G1-MCgZPwV0VamaXA8YdEaYRl1U&user=&mcode=
From your information you listed, I'm assuming you took your loan out for 134,125. If you double your payments and add $1,000 to the balance every month, you'll go from a 20yr loan and have it paid off in 7 years!!!
Also, Countrywide has a great program to help pay off your loan quicker. If you make a large payment toward the principle balance, they'll reamortize your payments with the amount of years left and the new balance. Thus reducing your monthly payment. The is a small 400-500 fee to do this, but I believe they just add it onto the back of your loan.