In this post I'll try to fill that knowledge gap by providing some data that describe the financial condition of
more typical borrowers.
Not exact matches
Gathering this information is
more important for gig economy workers than
typical borrowers, because you will have to work harder to convince a mortgage lender to approve a home loan.
More typical rates for student loan refinancing are usually around 4 - 6 %, while average personal loan rates for
borrowers with good credit are around 15 % — or higher.
However, the
typical Discover
borrower usually has a credit score north of 700 and makes
more than $ 25,000 per year.
The White House said the plan would immediately offer lower rates to 11 million
borrowers and save the
typical undergraduate
more than $ 1,500 over the life of the loans.
Absent
typical capital market investor concerns regarding return horizons and financial liquidity, the Federal Government can become the «patient investor» whose long - term view of asset returns enables the project's non-Federal financial partners to meet their investment goals, allowing the
borrower to receive a
more favorable financing package.
In comparison, the
typical FHA
borrower had a credit score of 697 in August — meaning
more than half of all FHA
borrowers would not qualify for the private product.
LendingClub releases
more data on how it calculates a
borrower's interest rate than Prosper does, but both platforms are going to weigh the
typical credit factors such as FICO score, number of inquiries, credit history, credit utilization, and so forth.
• Unlike in the U.S., underwriting standards for qualifying mortgage
borrowers in Canada have been maintained at prudent levels resulting in mortgage
borrowers here being much
more creditworthy; • Canadian mortgage lenders never offered low initial «teaser» rate mortgages that led to most of the difficulties for mortgage
borrowers in the U.S.; • Most mortgages in Canada are held by their original lender, not packaged and sold to third parties as is
typical in the U.S., and consequently, Canadian mortgage lenders have a vested interest in ensuring that their mortgage
borrowers are creditworthy and not likely to default; • Only 0.3 % of Canadian mortgages are in arrears versus 4.5 % in the U.S. and what even before the start of the U.S. housing meltdown two years ago was 2 %; • Canadians tend to pay down their mortgage faster than in the U.S. where mortgage interest is deductible from taxes, which encourages U.S. homeowners to take equity out of their homes to finance other spending, a difference that is reflected in the fact that in Canada mortgage debt accounts for just over 30 % of the value of homes, compared with 55 % in the U.S.
The death of the
borrower in that case is so tragic, and indeed so unlikely, that perhaps it would make sense to bake into these loans a term life insurance policy that would leave the cosigner on the hook only for
more typical forms of default.
However, the
typical Discover
borrower usually has a credit score north of 700 and makes
more than $ 25,000 per year.
Older
borrowers had a
typical monthly offset that was slightly
more than $ 140, and almost half of them were subject to the maximum possible reduction, equivalent to 15 percent of their Social Security benefit.
As noted by some of the commenters, the amortization periods account for the
typical outcome that
borrowers who enroll in higher - credentialed programs (e.g., bachelor's and graduate degree programs) are likely to have
more loan debt than
borrowers who enroll in lower - credentialed programs and, as a result, are
more likely to take longer to repay their loans.
That leaves 5 percent
more in monthly in come in
borrowers» hands than in
typical public no - and low - downpayment programs.
For a
typical consumer, that shift can translate to their monthly payment
more than tripling, a particular burden for the subprime
borrowers that often took out these loans.