Conversely, if you plan to stay in your home for the life of your loan, by refinancing and extending the loan term, you may save in cash payments for the first few years but end up paying more in total interest
payments over the life of your new loan.
We financed our loan with RMC and saved nearly $ 300,000 in interest
payments over the life of the new loan.
Not exact matches
Although choosing a shorter
loan term may lower the amount
of interest paid
over the
life of your
new loan, it may not lower your monthly
payment amount as much as a
new 30 - year term
loan might.
Refinancing allows you to combine both your federal and private student
loans into a
new loan with a
new repayment term and interest rate, which can often save money
over the
life of the
loan, or help lower your monthly
payment.
In addition, if you extend the term
of your home
loan (for example, by refinancing a 30 - year mortgage into another 30 - year mortgage after you've already owned your home and made mortgage
payments for 5 years), you may pay more in total interest expenses
over the
life of the
new refinance
loan compared to your existing mortgage.
Unfortunately, here's the rub: because
of your higher interest rate
of 16.70 %, you'll end up paying an additional $ 1,213
over the
life of the
new loan, even as your monthly
payment shrinks from $ 642 to $ 533.
Let us assume you
live in Texas, you have not yet filed for bankruptcy, you just got a
new job for the first time in three years, you owe a credit union money for an unsecured
loan of $ 7,500, you owe
over $ 75,000 in credit card debt, a collection agency is currently threatening a lawsuit against you, you have student
loan payments due that are incurring interest, and you have back taxes due.
While these
new rates won't dramatically increase the monthly
payments on a
loan, the additional interest could drive the average student
loan bill up by hundreds
of dollars
over the
life of a
loan.
The lump sum reduces the principal, so your
new monthly
payments decrease slightly and you save on interest paid
over the
life of the
loan.