Mortgage : Home Loans : Refinance : Home Equity Loans

By Ben Afzal

Property Costs

Your property costs include not just your mortgage but property taxes, home owner association dues, hazard insurance, and any other house-related expenses.

Your property tax burden may increase over time as the appraised value of the property increases.

You may also be subject to special tax assessments on your property.

Increasing Costs

Your mortgage loan may be adjustable and your monthly payment has increased dramatically. These increases in monthly payment can sometimes be $1,000 or more per month.

Your Options To Fix This

A basic option is to sell the property and be rid of the problem entirely. You need to decide if you can live in a property that is not as costly.

You may also choose to refinance into a lower payment mortgage. This may include an interest only mortgage, where you only pay interest and as such have a lower monthly payment. You can get loans that are interest only with a fixed interest rate for 10 years.

Minimum payment option loans allow a borrower to pay even less than interest only loans. Any payment less than the interest only amount is added onto the principal of the loan. The monthly payment, however, is usually much lower with this loan than any other type of loan.

Many lenders will allow a borrower to refinance a property even the day after they purchase the property. They will typically not let you cash out any increase in the value of the property but they will allow you to get a new mortgage with a lower monthly payment.

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