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The Ramsey Show Highlights

My Loan Officer Said I’m Putting Too Much Down On A House

The Ramsey Show Highlights

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Self-improvement, Education, Investing, Business

4.6682 Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:06.6

My question is this. I'm about to close my escrow and the current interest rate that I'm

0:11.2

locked in is really high. It's like 6.875. Okay. And my loan officer tells me, hey, don't worry about it.

0:21.8

In about a year, you know, two years down the line, interest rate is going to go down.

0:26.4

You're going to refinance, so that's fine.

0:29.1

And I want to put it, I have the potential to put in a lot of money like up front.

0:34.4

Because the calculation from your show, teaches me, teaches me how these things

0:39.4

works, right? And so it's just mathematics. Yeah. And so my loan, so I'm shopping around. I'm

0:46.6

shopping around with two different loan officer along with my realtor. And they all wonder,

0:52.0

why would you want to put money up front?

0:56.6

Because they're not financial advisors.

0:58.9

They just want to get you in this house.

1:01.9

And they're filtering it through what they would do.

1:05.3

A lot of people, you know, it's human nature.

1:08.9

If you give advice, you're kind of giving advice based on what you might do.

1:15.2

And a lot of these loan officers for homes, they, most of their life is people trying to scrape together and mow lawns to get, get that 2.999 up to 3%.

1:21.7

Like there's, it's so hard to find people who actually save money like you, David.

1:26.4

Okay.

1:26.8

It's just rare.

1:27.5

So I, I just want to make sure that I'm, you know, my math is not wrong somewhere where they,

1:33.6

so they suggest this, save your money now and wait until you refinance.

1:37.2

Let's say right now I'm at 6.8, right?

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