In other words, even if Lender A advertises 5 % — 30 % APR and Lender B offers 6 % — 36 % APR, Lender A won't necessarily end up offering you a better
package than Lender B. Shopping around is crucial, and you'll have to do your due diligence to figure out how much you'll end up paying with each in the long term.
Not exact matches
Overall, Guaranteed Rate's products come with highly competitive rate estimates: not only are its rates lower
than average for each loan type, they are actually
packaged with
lender credits that can reduce your closing costs.
• 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.
Furthermore, with private
lenders, borrowers often have the flexibility to exclude select low - interest portions of their student loan debt from the refinance
package if the original rate is more favorable
than the rate being offered.
Slater and Gordon moved more
than 40 of its UK partners out of its partnership before agreeing a recapitalisation
package with Anchorage Capital that will give
lenders ultimate control of the UK business.
The group says that discrimination lawsuits have traditionally been brought directly against the original mortgage
lenders rather
than investment banks that
packaged the loans into securities.
«Realtors ® strongly supported the bipartisan Mortgage Forgiveness Tax Relief Act, which was included in the
package to prevent underwater borrowers from paying taxes on any mortgage debt forgiven or cancelled by a
lender in a workout or after their home was sold for less money
than was owed.
Henry said
lenders such as Wells Fargo should keep more of their mortgages on their books, rather
than packaging them in securities and selling them to federal - mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have tight lending restrictions.
The most frequent obstacles cited included slow response time by
lenders to a short sale
package (about 67 percent said it took more
than 60 days for
lenders to return a written response for approving or disapproving a short sale agreement), poor communication with
lender representatives (43 percent said it took the
lender more
than five days to return any form of communication), and repeated requests for documentation.