Homeowner Loans Have A Multitude Of Uses.

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by: lizmoir
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 Time: 9:37 PM
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Homeowner loans are obviously, as their name implies, only available to those who own their property and for which non homeowners are exempt.These loans are secured and as such attract a low rate of interest.Even in this present economic slump the starting rate of interst for these loans is about 8% APR. if your credit rating is good.
Even homeowners with a less than stellar credit rating can obtain a homeowner loan although the interest rate will be higher for these credit impaired individuals.
The homeowner loan releases the equity in your property. Equity is basically the difference between the value of your property and the outstanding mortgage balance. If your property is worth £350,000 and your outstanding mortgage balance is £140,000, your equity would be £210,000.
homeowner loanslenders no longer grant 100% loan to value products, and will nowadays deduct a minimum of 20% from the value of the property if you are employed and at least 30% if you are self employed.
The maximum loan at present is £100,000 although some homeowner loan lenders are only prepared to grant less than this, especially to applicants with a poor payment profile.First European Securities grant up to a maximum of £23,000 at up to 50% LTV even to homeowners with serious bad debts such as mortgage arrears, defaults, CCJ's, etc. Although the interest rate is fairly high at over 20%, it is still lower than the rate for most credit cards, and it can be an excellent way for a hard pressed, financially stretched homeowner to tidy up all their debt, pay off their mortgage arrears, and a few years down the line when the adverse points are removed from their credit file they will be in a position to refinance at a good rate of interest.Therefore one use for the homeowner loan is that it can change a homeowner who can only obtain a bad credit loan at present into someone who can in the future be considered as a status loan applicant.
A homeowner loan can always be utilised as a debt consolidation loan which means that a homeowner pays off all their other debts in credit cards, homeimprovement loans, personal loans, etc. and combines them into one much lower monthly payment, saving a fortune each month and making their finances easier to handle which is a God send in a person's hectic lifestyle.It saves having to remember on what dates in the month all the credit cards, etc. have to be paid, and it saves on bank charges, as every cheque or BACS payment made incurs bank charges.
If you have been longing for years to go on holiday and stay in expensive hotels but have grudged raiding your savings to pay for the trip, you can use a little of the equity tied up in your property to pay for the European mini tour of your dreams. Why deprive yourself of something that you really want to do when you have up to £200,000 equity in your property? Even £10,000 or more to take The Grand Mini Tour of Europe is not going to put much of a dent in your equity, and a loan of £10,000 will cost you in the region of £120 or so per month over a ten year period. However if, as in the previous paragraph, you have used a homeowner loan for consoidation the trip will in fact cost nothing. If you had credit cards of £30,000, the minimum payment for these monthly is £1,200, and a consolidation loan to pay them off would cost in the region of £370 over a ten year period, and so the savings achieved would quite quickly fund your holiday.
You have been to Paris before when you were a student and then you stayed in a flea pit in Montmartre. You always wanted to go back to Paris again, but would prefer to stay in more comfortable surroundings. Well now you can courtesy of your homeowner loan.Hire a car and visit Versailles, that magnificent palace built by Louis 14th , and have lunch at a little bistro while admiring this most grand of royal palaces. Go on try something different such as a plate of escargots or how about some cuisses de grenouille washed down with a delicious bottle of chilled Chablis? After lunch travel in your hired car to Fountanebleau, the magnificent hunting lodge of Louis 14th who was otherwise known as The Sun King.On returning to your comfortable 4 or 5 star hotel near the Place De La Concorde, luxuriate in the jacuzzi and think of what the evening holds for you.Take a walk along the banks of the River Seine hand in hand with your beloved and capture the romance you thought had been lost forever followed by a trip on a bateau mouche where you can partake of a delicious diner.Looking into his or her eyes across the candle lit table you remember why you got together in the first place all those years ago. A homeownr loan can almost take the place of a relationship expert!
On a more banal level a homeowner loan is an excellent way of funding homeimprovements. It enables you to have the ready funds available to negotiate the very best deal for materials and a workman's labour.Instead of just having a new kitchen fitted you can possibly also have a new bathroom fitted as well for the same money, as the homeowner loan is at a much lower rate of interest than a loan provided by a homeimprovement company whose rates are usually in the region of 25%.
These are just a few ideas to get you thinking about the excellent product that is the homeowner loan.

About the Author

Liz is an experienced secured loans and homeowner loan underwriter with Champion Finance.

http://www.championfinance.com