A Mortgage Refinance in Retirement - Good Idea or Bad?
1D0-476 Interest rates today are lower than anyone can ever remember having seen before. At no time has a mortgage refinance made so much sense - especially for people over 55 who may be looking at their anemic retirement savings and hoping for a way to get it back into shape.
For people to take up something as huge as a mortgage refinance close to retirement has always been considered a terrible move. Close to your retirement, it's hardly the time you need to be taking on more debt. What do you do when your income stops? And yet, carrying debt into retirement has become some kind of a trend these days. About one in two seniors these days carries a debt worth $70,000.
It's pretty easy to see why. A 30 year mortgage asks for nothing more than 5% these days. It's an easy way for homeowners who are eligible, to quickly get themselves a financial makeover. If you have a traditional 7% mortgage and you refinance it to 5%, that's a few hundred dollars saved each month.
1D0-541 If you are considering such a move for yourself, here's what you need to know. Some people think taking on a mortgage refinance will give them extra money to put into the stock market. The stock market though, is never reliable in the short run. You need to stay invested in it for at least 20 years to really see reliable and impressive returns. If anything, you should probably use the money you get from a refinancing deal to pay down your mortgage or any other loan you may have.
Three out of four Americans nearing retirement believe that they'll continue to work long past their retirement age. This makes them confident about extending their mortgage loan. Depending on having a job though, is hardly a smart move. You could easily lose your job or fall ill at that age. Unemployment runs at 8% for those over 65. A job is hardly something you can expect to have.
The closing costs on a mortgage refinance can be pretty expensive. Typically, it can take three years for you to recoup what you've spent. 1D0-51B This means that if you plan to move in under three years, this really wouldn't be a good idea. If you can put off the move for 5 to 6 years, a mortgage refinance might help you buy a retirement home and it might be a good idea.
Make sure that you get a 15 year mortgage if you can. Over the life of the loan, you'll find that you pay far less in interest this way. Every year that you extend the mortgage, you pay more in interest.
For people to take up something as huge as a mortgage refinance close to retirement has always been considered a terrible move. Close to your retirement, it's hardly the time you need to be taking on more debt. What do you do when your income stops? And yet, carrying debt into retirement has become some kind of a trend these days. About one in two seniors these days carries a debt worth $70,000.
It's pretty easy to see why. A 30 year mortgage asks for nothing more than 5% these days. It's an easy way for homeowners who are eligible, to quickly get themselves a financial makeover. If you have a traditional 7% mortgage and you refinance it to 5%, that's a few hundred dollars saved each month.
1D0-541 If you are considering such a move for yourself, here's what you need to know. Some people think taking on a mortgage refinance will give them extra money to put into the stock market. The stock market though, is never reliable in the short run. You need to stay invested in it for at least 20 years to really see reliable and impressive returns. If anything, you should probably use the money you get from a refinancing deal to pay down your mortgage or any other loan you may have.
Three out of four Americans nearing retirement believe that they'll continue to work long past their retirement age. This makes them confident about extending their mortgage loan. Depending on having a job though, is hardly a smart move. You could easily lose your job or fall ill at that age. Unemployment runs at 8% for those over 65. A job is hardly something you can expect to have.
The closing costs on a mortgage refinance can be pretty expensive. Typically, it can take three years for you to recoup what you've spent. 1D0-51B This means that if you plan to move in under three years, this really wouldn't be a good idea. If you can put off the move for 5 to 6 years, a mortgage refinance might help you buy a retirement home and it might be a good idea.
Make sure that you get a 15 year mortgage if you can. Over the life of the loan, you'll find that you pay far less in interest this way. Every year that you extend the mortgage, you pay more in interest.
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