What Your Mortgage Lender Is Not Telling You About Accelerated Mortgages
For years, mainstream banks and financial advisors have been recommending that you pay extra cash into your mortgage account in order to cut down the huge interest amount and reduce the period over which you pay back the loan.For example, if you borrow $200,000 over 30 years at a rate of 5%, your ... more...

Is Bad Credit Mortgage a Threat of Bankruptcy?
Bad credit mortgage generally involves increases in interest rates, together with a reduction in the availability of credit. Whether bad credit mortgages cause a real economic downturn depends on the severity of the crunch and the availability of alternative sources of funds.The low risks and added ... more...

What the Bank Wont Tell You About Mortgage Refinancing
So you have a mortgage, and you need to refinance to get your interest rates low. Most people simply walk into their bank, ask to refinance, and then end up paying more money long term than they would have otherwise. Some banks would like everyone who is refinancing to remain ignorant, but I am ... more...

Construction Loan Basics
It might not be too big of an exaggeration to say that the construction loan is one of the more daunting aspects of building your custom home. Before we started our project, I had nightmares about trying to pay two full mortgages at the same time (our existing mortgage and the construction loan), ... more...

How to Sell Bonds
If you want to make good money with banks, or any institution, Government and agency bonds are where it is at. Simply because all Government bonds and agencies are AAA rated, and banks can buy millions of dollars of any bond without incurring any credit risk.All banks own bonds of some sort, and ... more...

Mortgage Brokers vs. Banks
When it comes to searching for the right kind of mortgage to meet your needs, you will probably come across a decision about who you should borrow from: Do mortgage brokers or banks make better lenders?A mortgage broker is a mediator that facilitates the process of acquiring a mortgage for ... more...

Buying a Spanish Property - How Do You Finance It?
Financing Your PropertyOnce you have decided on the home you wish to buy you need to know how to finance it. There are several ways in which you can do this. If you are lucky enough to have the cash in the bank then you dont need to worry about the actual financing of it however take a look at the ... more...

Private Lenders Can Get You the Mortgage Terms You Want
There are two primary places that you can find money to support your new home purchase, commercial banks and private lenders. Although there are a few more, these are the ones that people turn to first.Commercial banks usually have terms put out on the table that you are either expected to accept ... more...

Leverage - Margin Debt
What is leverage?Here is a definition of leverage from an online dictionary "leverage - The use of credit or borrowed funds to improve one's speculative capacity and increase the rate of return from an investment, as in buying securities on margin."Essentially, the core idea of leverage is that ... more...