Re-Financing To Consolidate Debt
Basically what happens when you consolidate your debts with a refinancing loan on your home, you get a lower interest rate on a loan big enough to repay the existing balance on your home and your other forms of existing debt.
A debt consolidation loan enables the homeowner to use the existing equity in their home as collateral to secure a low interest loan which is large enough to repay the existing balance on the home as well as a number of other debts such as credit card debt, car loans, student loans or any other debts the homeowner may have.
This article will attempt to make this issue less complex by providing a function definition for debt consolidation and providing answer to two key questions homeowners should ask themselves before re-financing. These questions include whether the homeowner will pay more in the long run by consolidating their debt and will the homeowners financial situation improve if they re-finance.
Refinancing a home can be called consolidation of debt. However, you can refinance your home for a lot of reasons. Refinancing your debt for the purpose of consolidating your existing debts can be called consolidating debt but actually you’re not really consolidating but refinancing.
To consolidate is to unite, to put together, to make one out of more. When refinancing, the existing debts are refinanced by this one consolidation loan. So, you are refinancing, repaying through the consolidated loan.
These multiple debts still remain the same amount when consolidated. Usually the interest rate on a home loan can be lower than they are on your existing debts.
Prior to the debt consolidation the homeowner may have been repaying a monthly debt to one or more credit card companies, an auto lender, a student loan lender or any number of other lenders but now the homeowner is repaying one debt to the mortgage lender who provided the debt consolidation loan.
Be aware that your new loan has to meet the conditions of the applicable loan.
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