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Take out home equity loan to pay part of mortgage? |
I have a 15 year mortgage on my house which I've been paying on for about 7 months. Its fixed at 6.74% APR. Initial amount borrowed was $65,016.24 and now I owe $63,674.81 after 7 months of payments. (my payment is $574.42 per month) My bank now is advertising a home equity installment loan for up to $10,000 at 4.99% APR. The question I have is would it be smart to take out this loan and pay off $10,000 of my original mortgage with the money since it is at a lower rate (4.99 vs 6.74)? In other words I'm not looking to use the money for anything other than paying off a large chunk of my mortgage in the hopes of saving some money over time. ps. I'm pretty sure there are no 'closing costs' involved with the home equity loan. It can be a good idea "if" you can pay off all of the $10k before the 4.99APR teaser rate expires - understand that you will still have to make your regular $574 payment + $188 per month to pay off both loans (if the teaser rate is good for 5 years, more if the teaser rate is shorter than that), your first payment doesn't go down, so if the $188 will squeak you, then bad idea. What you COULD do, is take out the $10k at 4.99, invest it in GMAC demand notes @ 6%, and then take the tax benefit off of the loan interest and pocket the difference - so you make an extra 1% off of your money, no loss, and if you wanted to, you could make that $188 payment off of the demand note each month! lign="right" > Sign in to vote! You are right, it can and does work, if you know how to leverage the line of credit without falling into the adjustable rate trap. There is a educational site that teaches you just how to do that along with many other strategies and techiques to 'unlend' a loan. www.go2self.org/stop lign="right" > Sign in to vote! If you crunch the numbers, you won't be saving yourself very much money, and it will be at the expense of your credit score. Since you will have to pay back both loans at the same time if you do this, why would you not just put that extra money every month towards your principal? That would save you more in the long run than taking out a home equity loan. In other words, don't do it, rather pay extra every month to save money in the long run. It is not worth it to take out a loan to pay off a loan...it does not work, even if it sounds like a good idea. lign="right" > Sign in to vote! |
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