These opportunities include saving money, creating wealth, or helping you cross things off the ever-growing wish list. To take advantage of these opportunities you’ll need to refinance your current mortgage.

A refinance involves accessing the equity in your home and changing the terms of your current mortgage (rate, amortization, mortgage amount, etc.). There is typically a mortgage penalty and closing costs involved. Normally, there would be no money needed from your pocket but rather you would use the equity in your home to cover these costs. You would also take out additional funds to accomplish what you’re looking to do.

Here are 7 reasons clients are currently refinancing their homes:

Optimize Your Current Rate: In simple terms, trade-in your higher rate for a lower rate. There would be a cost to do this and we’d have to factor in a mortgage penalty and closing costs to make sure it makes sense to do so. This typically won’t cost you anything out of pocket as the equity in your home would cover this. Let’s say your mortgage penalty and closing costs equal $7,000 but the savings from a lower interest rate is $12,000. This means you could save $5,000 and not pay anything out of pocket.

Home Renovations: You could use the equity in your home to finance that new kitchen you’ve always wanted, finish the basement and increase your livable space, add a pool to the backyard, add a rental suite to help offset your mortgage payments, etc.  

Increase Monthly Cash Flow: Are you carrying a balance on higher interest debt that you just can’t seem to pay down? You could put your high-interest debt with large monthly payments into a lower single mortgage payment. This is done to increase your monthly cash flow while also replacing your high-interest debt with a much lower interest rate.

Investments: You could use the equity in your home for a down payment on an investment property. You could also put those funds into a more traditional investment like a mutual fund, stocks, etc.

Pay For School Or Higher Education: Do you have kids who are heading off to post-secondary education or is there some form of education that you’ve always wanted to do but didn’t have the funds available?

Buy A Second Home: This could be a cottage type property or even a second home for a family member who needs help.

Start A Business: Getting a business loan from the bank is becoming harder by the day. Did you have a new business idea or side hustle you’ve been wanting to start for a while but didn’t have the capital to do?  

Refinancing your home means different things to different people depending on your situation. 

Mortgage funds have never been this low and I’m curious what opportunity you might be interested in?