The new guidelines remove some of the obstacles that sometimes make lenders reluctant to do an FHA streamline refinance, by taking such
loans out of the formula used to assess their performance as FHA approved lenders.
Not exact matches
However, because lenders need to make money off
of loans, you can expect to pay interest on a mortgage, which complicates the
formula used to figure
out monthly payments.
This would give you your combined
loan balance and your combined
loan - to - value
formula would look like this: Current combined
loan balance ÷ Current appraised value = CLTV Example: You currently have a
loan balance
of $ 140,000 (you can find your
loan balance on your monthly
loan statement or online account) and you want to take
out a $ 25,000 home equity line
of credit.
Using this
formula, the previous example works
out as: Total = $ 10,000 x (1 + 0.05) ^ 2 Total = $ 10,000 x 1.1025 Total = $ 11,025 Subtracting the original $ 10,000
loan calculates the interest - only amount
of $ 1,025.
Under the new
formula, borrowers with approved defenses may have between 10 % and 100 %
of their federal
loans taken
out to attend a program that engaged in misconduct discharged, depending on which program they enrolled in.
FICO doesn't do this to discourage people from earning travel rewards, it's just that their credit scoring
formula interprets such behavior as a sign
of financial distress, like someone taking
out several new
loans to pay bills.