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Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

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randella
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Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

We are thinking of maybe doing this.

Posted 2/8/08 7:00 PM
 
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Mommy2Boys
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

I called about refinancing with my current mortgage company. The change in interest rate only changes it by $100-200 a month (which is a nice decrease) but they charge you and their requirements are much stricter now. Unfortunately I am not working full-time, only P/T since I had DS so I'm not sure we would re-qualify being our income is not the same.

Posted 2/8/08 7:59 PM
 

CunningOne
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

We did back in 2002. We went from 8.25% to 5.5% and cut it from a 30 year to a 20 year mortgage and still saved ourselves a few hundred $$ a month! Worth it for us back then.

Posted 2/8/08 9:02 PM
 

2kids2cats
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

We are looking into it right now. We will do it if we can save about $400 a month.

Posted 2/8/08 9:07 PM
 

leese
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

I'm definitely interested in redoing my 2nd mortgage since we got a high rate at the time and I'm not happy with it.

I need to see some 4% to make a difference in our first mortgage as we got a rate that was in the 5% range.

That, and I'd like to do a little work to the house to increase the value even more.

If you have a house that you are refinancing above that $417 level, I would hold off to see if FHA/Congress adjusts the jumbo rate.

Posted 2/8/08 11:56 PM
 

orchid24
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

yes---just recently for our year old townhouse. we got a 30 yr.fixed for 5.875%... i'm not sure how much the fees were to do this, as DH took care of it.

Posted 2/9/08 8:41 AM
 

Smileyd17
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

Posted by orchid24

we got a 30 yr.fixed for 5.875%... i'm not sure how much the fees were to do this, as DH took care of it.



Same, went down 1% for us.
Saving us $150/month off mtg too.

Posted 2/9/08 10:39 AM
 

lilacwine
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

yes. Just waiting for rates to drop a little bit more, then we hope to refinance with our current lender.

Posted 2/9/08 10:44 AM
 

MegZee
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

i got my mortgage in dec06 at 5.875%, so it has to come down more for us to be able to refi.

Posted 2/9/08 11:14 AM
 

lakrav
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

Quick way to approximate savings:

Subtract the percentage you are paying now from the percentage you are going to get.

Example: 7%-5.5%=1.5% savings

Take your full loan amount and multiply by the savings.

300000*1.5%=4500

This will give you the savings over the first year. Of course the amount you save will decrease each year based on the principal you owe, but his is a good quick figure to see if the closing costs make sense based on the amount of years you will be in the house and the savings per year.

Posted 2/9/08 11:46 AM
 

Tine73

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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

We are looking into it too.

Posted 2/9/08 11:58 AM
 

ali120206
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Re: Has anyone refinanced their mortgage with the lower interest rates?

Posted by Meaghan729

i got my mortgage in dec06 at 5.875%, so it has to come down more for us to be able to refi.



Us to (except ours was in March 07).

Posted 2/9/08 1:32 PM
 
 

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