This new loan
hopefully has a lower interest rate, or maybe a longer repayment period, which will lower your monthly payment.
Not exact matches
But
lower interest rates and —
hopefully — improved credit scores might
have your eye wandering toward lenders offering to save you thousands of dollars if you refinance with them.
A monthly close below here (
hopefully this coming Monday)
would cause a one - off shift in the structure and level of
interest rates - permanently
lower.
When you refinance a loan you replace it with a new loan that,
hopefully,
has better terms and a
lower interest rate.
You still owe the same amount of money, but now you
have one payment per month,
hopefully at a
lower interest rate.
The main benefit here is —
hopefully — a
lower interest rate, and only
having to worry about making one payment each month.
So why don't lenders offer a true reverse mortage which
would compute and lend a stream of payments (at
interest of course, but
hopefully a
rate reflective of the
low risk given the high property value / loan ratio) rather than a useless lump sum which
has seniors paying pretty high mortgage
interest rates on a large amount of loan, rather than a
interest on the (rising) amount of loan as the stream of payments accumulated.
This newly refinanced student loan will
have new terms,
hopefully a
lower interest rate, a new monthly payment amount, and / or a new repayment length.