Loan Repayment Account

The loan repayment account is the designated account opened by the lender for the borrower to make the monthly obligated payments.

Borrowers are supposed to make deposits into this account via check, cash deposit, or wire transfers, etc, in order to meet their debt obligations.

With arrangement, this recurring payment can be automated with a request to the bank holding the borrower’s savings or current account. read more

Loan Estimate Form

The loan estimate form is a 3-page document that a lender will provide a borrower which important information regarding the costs of closing the loan and payments moving forward.

The lender is legally obligated to deliver the loan estimate form within 3 business days of receiving the loan application.

Because of the various expense items that a borrower will incur when signing up for a mortgage, this form serves the purpose of helping consumers better understand why they are paying these costs and where they go to. read more

Pros And Cons Of Refinancing With Current Lender

A lot of homeowners ask me which bank has a better mortgage to refinance to.

And I always tell them what type of rates they can expect to obtain in the market at that moment in time, BUT that they should first call up their current lender to see if they would be willing to refinance the loan themselves.

Only in the event of the current lender being unwilling to refinance, or re-price, the existing loan with an attractive new loan package would I tell where the best deals on the market are. read more