Secured Loans

February 16, 2010

The Benefits of a Secured Homeowner Loan

A secured homeowner loan is, as its name implies, a loan secured against your home. Secured loans require no upfront survey, legal or other fees. The loan can be used for many uses, including paying off outstanding loans or credit cards and reducing your monthly repayments. Also, the loan can be used for home improvements, a new car, a wedding, a holiday or to inject cash into your business.

There are a number of specialist lenders willing to advance finance secured by way of a second charge against the your property over a period of between 5 and 25 years. In general terms, the maximum combined loan-to-value (LTV) of the existing mortgage, plus the proposed extra secured loan, should not exceed 90%. In fact, some lenders will restrict the maximum LTV to 80% if for business use.

As the finance lender would be second in the queue for security, this involves a slightly higher risk which means that a higher interest rate would be charged, the interest rate depending upon the applicant’s credit history. Although secured homeowner loans might be more costly in terms of the interest charged in some cases, the following advantages may apply.

 

  • A secured loan may usually be raised much quicker than finance using a remortgage. Whereas it might often take three weeks to arrange finance via a secured loan, it usually takes at least six weeks to remortgage.
  • The applicant may be tied to a mortgage lender offering a low interest rate for say 3 or 5 years, which might involve early redemption charges if the mortgage is redeemed early. In using a secured loan, the mortgage can remain in place to avoid such a charge.
  • Whilst the applicant may have a 25 year mortgage, they may not wish to extend his business finance for such a long term, which would be the case if they remortgaged.
  • Finance raised via remortgaging cannot be offset against the future profits of a business for tax purposes. However, a separate secured loan can be clearly identified as being for business use and offset against tax accordingly.
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    When considering applying for a secured homeowner loan, it is wide to consult with a professional loan broker who will search the market and source the best secured loan for you from a wide panel of lenders.

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    June 23, 2009

    Save money on your insurance

    from your current provider on your Home and Car Insurance policies. After mortgages, this is the best area to save money by requesting new quotes. According to the RAC, the average quote of £629 for car insurance falls to £415 if you shop around, while home insurance cover tumbles from £385 to £250. The internet makes it incredibly simple to find quotes, and if you don’t spend at least one lunch hour a year finding a better deal then I wish I had as much money as you!.

    1. Reclaim Loan protection insurance
    Pricey and poorly sold, Loan protection insurance is one of the most profitable products formed by the finance industry. It can add £3,000 to the cost of a £7,500 secured loans. Many people who were sold ppi could’t claim on it against it these people are abel to demand their money back again.

    Many companies will attempt to claim the money back, but you will pay a 25% premium on the monies awarded. Instead, call the FOS which is currently upholding around four out of five complaints about being missold PP . Helpfully, it offers a factsheet on how to make a complaint about PPI which you can find at financialombudsman.org.uk

    2. Cancel your mobile phone insurance
    Naive youngsters are strongly pressured in phone shops into spending between £50 and £70 a year on this insurance. But the benefits are minimal: most won’t cover you for the only major risk, airtime abuse (if your phone is ued to call overseas, and if your phone is lost your home and contents should coiver it.

    Mobile phone insurance is easy to cancel just stop the direct debit.

    3. Rethink your life insurance
    You can also cancel your life insurance. Just because the life insurance was sold to you with your mortgage you don’t need to to stick with that provider for the life of the home loan. the policy can be canceled at any time to get a cheaper quote. With the human lifetime improving (ie. fewer people dying), the insurers have been cutting rates for many years.

    If you are in a job at a big employer, it is likely to offer “death in service” benefit worth up to three times your annual salary, and often more. Do you really need all that life cover on top as well?

    4. Don’t pay for travel insurance you don’t need
    Step 1 Obtain a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) from ehic.org.uk or at your local Post Office. This has replaced the old E111 forms and gives you reducedcost or free medical treatment in EU countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. You may even obtain treatment faster, as you won’t have to rely on a hospital waiting to receive authorisation to treat you from an insurer.

    Step 2 Check your home insurance policy. most cover your belongings ouside your house.

    Step 3 Check your medical insurance policy, if you have one. These often pay treatment costs incurred abroad. If traveling to Europe, the only real benefit that travel insurance cover brings is cancellation cover. Can you justify paying the premiums?.

    For those who travel outside the EU, travel insurance is a must, though. Policies that last for a year and cover you for more than one trip always make sense if you go away more than once a year don’t pay for what you don’t need. E.g., f you don’t ski or snowboard, you don’t need winter sports cover.

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    May 30, 2009

    Consolidating Student Loans and Debt

     

    Just like scars, they are not nice to look at. Though there are a lot of ways one can get rid of them, it may take a while before results can actually be seen. It is just like using foundation to cover acne or blemishes in the face. You can use the same foundation to hide these marks. One of the best ways on how to hide stretch marks is by applying tanning products. If this is your story of attempts at removing stretch marks, then, it’s time for you to turn to stretch mark removal creams. Often associated with the obese people and pregnant women, they can appear anywhere on the body.

    There are many students who find it difficult to meet the expenses involved in their educations. Not all students are required to provide security for their student loan. Variable plan that adjusts the amount of student debt loan consolidation payments as per changes in your income and expenses and extended payment plan allowing you to extend the loan pay off period and reduces monthly payments. Rather, this loan is offered only on the basis of the financial position of the borrower and his or her repayment capacity. Secured loans come at lower interest rates. You cannot avoid paying high interest as this is the price which you have to pay to lenders to encourage them to lend you money at high risk. With Nelnet you will obtain a private student loan with a variable interest rate.

    Psychologists tell us that young boys today are exposed to more pressures than their counterparts in previous generations. When these factors are not recognized and help is not readily accessible, we tend to see disrespectful teen behavior. We are confused in our society today about good parenting. We think loving our children means isolating and punishing them; separating them from us and trying to make them responsible for their reactive behavior without being responsive to them. So they suffer in their confusion and lash out when parents attempt to help. Fathers who want to foster healthy development in their teenage daughters may want to encourage them to play sports while in high school. I have to call her cell phone and drive around like a detective to figure out where she might have been. It was like a nightmare. My relationship and communication is thrown out of the window. These are the mistakes I made.

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