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What the average homeowner or home buyer neglects to recognize is that bankers, loan officers, mortgage brokers, or whatever your lenders name themselves, are salesmen. Certainly, if you purchased your home from a real estate broker and used her lender, you most likely got a feeling of trust in that person, because the real estate broker referred him. Beware of this potentially dangerous water. "This cat will assist you finish your loan," the real estate broker will state a prospective buyer. "He'll assist us close quickly, and you'll be in your new home in less than a month."

Suddenly, the banker is a cat who will assist you. Now, he's your friend. The purpose here is not to scare you into thought that everyone in the mortgage business is a bad person, looking to rake you off, but don't trust this guy, just because a real estate broker directs you to him. Remember, they work together.

The real estate broker needs the sale, and the banker needs to do loans. They are both salesmen, and salesmen are people who do commissions, based on a peculiar price. This travels for loan officers, just the same as it travels for a real estate broker or a car salesman. That used car salesman do more than than than than if you pay more, and the mortgage banker do more, based on how high your interest rate is.

When I worked in the mortgage business as a full-time loan officer and sales manager, the average client was far more concerned with the costs of completing the loan and the concluding monthly payment than with the interest rate on the money they were borrowing. This is one of the biggest errors home buyers and people refinancing do in completing a home loan.

Unfortunately, most Americans dwell from one payday to the next, barely paying the bills, so all they're concerned with is what the monthly payment will be and if it will suit their budget. Bankers provender off of this, as it goes easy to simply suit a loan into a payment schedule, ignoring interest rate, altogether. In fact, most people do it easy on the mortgage broker, asking more than than inquiries about payments than about interest rates.

The unsuspicious borrower will say, "I can't pay more than $1,000 per month." The cute loan officer will banquet on this person, like a starving adult male at a Thanksgiving Day dinner. Remember, bankers and mortgage brokers maintain secrets, advising in ways that look to salvage you money but really cost you thousands in the long run.

Let's presume the previously-mentioned individual needs $100,000 to purchase a home. An unscrupulous mortgage broker, looking to do as much money as possible on the borrower will happen out how much the taxes and insurance will be on the property. Let's presume they are $230, which will be added to the person's monthly mortgage payment. Let's also presume that the market bears an interest rate of 6% for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage (more on terms later). Now, the mortgage broker states to the borrower who can only afford $1,000 monthly, "What if I get you into your house for less than $900, including taxes and insurance? Can we make the loan today?"

This person, dying for his opportunity at the American Dream, is going to leap at this, thinking the mortgage broker is his new best friend and ignoring the interest rate on the loan, altogether. What the broker, trying to steal every possible cent from this 1 deal, have done is sold the borrower a $100,000 loan at an interest rate of 7%, which makes a principal and interest payment of $665.30 monthly. Compound this with $230 in tax and insurance escrows for a monthly mortgage payment of $895.30, almost $105 less than what the borrower said he could afford - a pretty nice savings, the borrower will think.

Think about it; if you said you could afford no more than than $1,000 per month, and the person, in whom you placed your trust, told you your payment would be $895, you'd probably be pretty excited, huh? What have really happened, though, is the mortgage broker have done the borrower, his valued customer, a great disservice. Why, you may wonder. Because the market for this theoretical account bears an interest rate of 6%, and we're assuming the borrower have good credit. The loan officer could have got offered the far better 6% rate, which would make a payment of $829.

This is $66 less than the borrower's payment at 7%. Also, the 7% rate will cost the borrower an extra $792 each twelvemonth ($66 modern times 12 months). That is nearly $4,000 over five years! All this, just so the mortgage broker could pocket a few hundred dollars more on this 1 deal. If the loan amount was much higher, you could lose 10s of thousands of dollars in just a few years.

So, what is the large secret? Simply put: bankers and mortgage brokers do not always offer the best possible interest rate, because they make money, when you get a higher interest rate than the market bears! So, be careful of this old trick. State your mortgage professional person that you desire the Par rate. This is the best rate the lender is willing to offer on a given day, without charging a premium. In other words, you could get a better rate, but you’d have got to pay to get it. Now, if you are caught off guard and sold a rate that is greater than Par, your payment will be bigger and the loan officer will do extra money. Don’t allow it happen.