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Bank of Canada raises key interest rate to 1.25% + MORE Jan 17th
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Refinance your home to pay for university?
– moneysense.ca
Q: I am a 55 year old male with three kids who are in university and we have exhausted our RESP savings. Now I’m having a cash flow problem. The main issue is that the interest rate on the mortgage is so high—as I am a self-employed clinical psychologist who works out of my home (and my wife works for me).The dilemma we face is whether or not we should sell our house and downsize into something a little cheaper, liquidate some RRSP savings or find another solution. I earn $200,000 each year and know that once the university days are over, we’ll have a lot more money. What should we do?
— David Rynard, Kingston, Ont.
Robert McLister, mortgage planner at intelliMortgage and founder of RateSpy:
A: This puzzle has a few missing pieces: two being your mortgage balance and interest rate.
What we know is that the highest 5-year mortgage rate over the last five years was about 3.99%. That assumes you were reasonably qualified at the time you got approved.
Assuming a $600,000 mortgage, for example, the payment difference between 3…
As US housing recovers, low incomes keep Detroit far behind
– canadianbusiness.com
DETROIT – Ann and Oscar Mack had fallen behind on property taxes and knew they faced foreclosure on their home of 20 years. But they didn’t know their house on Maiden Street, in a blighted east side Detroit neighbourhood, was already listed for auction.
No one “let us know we were about to lose our house,” Ann Mack said. “Nobody ever came out and knocked on our door.”
The United Community Housing Coalition stepped in and bought the home for $1,000 at a foreclosure auction, then returned the deed to the family. It and other nonprofits are the final options for hundreds of Detroit residents fighting foreclosures, auctions and evictions.
“Complete strangers helped us get our house back,” said Ann Mack, 48. “We would have been out in the street.”
A decade after the nation’s housing bubble peaked before bursting in a ruinous crash, much of America’s residential real estate has rebounded. Many owners have enjoyed rising equity and lower housing bills as mortgage rates have sunk…
No one “let us know we were about to lose our house,” Ann Mack said. “Nobody ever came out and knocked on our door.”
The United Community Housing Coalition stepped in and bought the home for $1,000 at a foreclosure auction, then returned the deed to the family. It and other nonprofits are the final options for hundreds of Detroit residents fighting foreclosures, auctions and evictions.
“Complete strangers helped us get our house back,” said Ann Mack, 48. “We would have been out in the street.”
A decade after the nation’s housing bubble peaked before bursting in a ruinous crash, much of America’s residential real estate has rebounded. Many owners have enjoyed rising equity and lower housing bills as mortgage rates have sunk…
