Mortgage refinance is simply renegotiating your mortgage contract with either an increase in the loan or changing up the repayment of a mortgage.
In many cases it’s worth breaking your mortgage, paying the penalty and refinancing your mortgage at a lower rate. Finding a mortgage with a lower rate can save you a lot of money over the life of your mortgage, making any penalty paid worth it. However this is very technical and best left up to a mortgage specialist who can assess your situation and give you unbiased advice.
There are a two ways to lower your monthly payments:
Many Canadians have used the equity in their homes when faced with a large expense that their savings can’t quite cover. You may have to cover your child’s university costs or need the money for a home renovation project.
A switch is a refinance mortgage at its essence. It is as the name suggests literally switching your mortgage from your current lender to a new one.
As a borrower, you'd switch to a new lender for a better mortgage, an adjustment to your payment, a better interest rate, an increase in financing or opening up your repayment options.
You can switch to a new lender at anytime with a penalty, considering this a switch is best utilized at the end of your current mortgage term. Although there is a penalty if you break your mortgage term before its up, the cost can be outweighed by the savings that follow a better mortgage term. We have access to lenders that will cover your prepayment penalties for switching and prepaying the mortgage before the term is up.
A refinance mortgage can be used for home renovations.
A lender will be more than willing to fund your ambition to improve your home. A home is security for your loan and given that you plan to add value to that home is exta security for a loan in the case of default.
Though a lender will not likely fund or approve a renovation that involves extreme changes or additions to a home.
A big project like adding another level to your home is a risky move for a lender, as such a project given unfinished or complications could harm the value of the home that a lender is using as security for your debt.
Having multiple debts can be a burden, refinancing can be a good way to consolidate that debt and simplify your life. Rolling your debts and loans into your mortgage can be financially strategic and beneficial.
Consolidating your debt is simply repaying debts with mortgage proceeds. Consolidation is when a debt is paid by another debt. The advantage to consolidation is that it brings a gross owed amount under one repayment and a single lower interest rate.
A refinance simply allows you to strategically target high interest debt and amounts with a payment through a replacement mortgage debt that consolidates debts under one repayment and interest rate.
Refinancing your mortgage is no the only way to obtain extra funds. Have you considered a Home Equity Line of Credit?
Feel free to send us an email with any questions you may have about the required documents for a refinance mortgage.
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