Your Financing Strategy
Ask questions from your bankers which of one these will benefits you most and which one could be costly to you. You can also get free checks when you open your account, you do not need to pay for checks. All checks are processed the same way that is up to you and how you manage your money.
-Savings Accounts: Custom Savings, Money Market Account Checking Accounts: Economy Checking, Express Checking, -Regular Checking, Senior Checking, Student checking
-Your Debit/Visa Card to use for shopping could be free when you open your account, make sure you ask for it, at times they will ask you if you want one or not. Where you use your Debit/Visa Card to withdraw money matters to your bank, it could cost you for using it at the wrong places, ask your banker for information where you could use your card without paying extra charges...
Some banks charges between $1.00 up to $3.00 if you use their card to withdraw money from another bank that they do not do business with. It is your money...
Each one of the above has advantages and dis-advantages, be careful when you are opening your accounts; you could loose money to the bank right away. You also need to know if your monthly statements are going to be free or not, when you make inquiries, the bank could be charging you for too many inquiries. Some things are free from the big banks and something's are cheaper from the community banks.
Basic Requirements for lending you money:
· Savings and Checking Account
· (2) Good Credit or No Credit it depends where you are getting the money.
· (3) Collateral such as your House, Car, Boat, Gold/diamond or any valuable assets they can hold on
· Driver's License,
· Social Security numbers
· Good Employment, at least for six months.
Lenders Information:
Big Bank requirements-
Can be very tough to meet because they have to abide by the 'Federal Reserve Bank or Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)' regulations. They got their money from the Federal Reserve Bank at a lower rate, however, they could turn around and loan it to the smaller banks at a higher rate, and the smaller banks loan it at higher quote rate to the public.
Community Bank requirements/Credit Union:
Well, the community bank is no different either, they turn to the big banks to borrow money at a lower rate so that they can loan it to their customers/clients at a higher rate to make some profit to stay in business.
Private Capital market requirement:
This is where the business gets tougher. The Capital Market enterprise is a big boy on the Wall Street, where they can finance just about anything they like, because they are not being regulated by the government, it is an individual rich businessmen that have money to loan out at a higher rate. They are not required to follow financing rule rigidly as the bank does, but they still have follow the consumer law that protect all of us from being taken advantage of.
Family friends requirement:
This one is your best source of financing, if you could find a rich friend or family friends that can loan you money without any attachment or collateral. They may ask you to pay them some small interest, or none it all depends what you are using the money for, at they would like to get a piece of the apple when they know you are going to make a lot profit.
Collateralization:
There some companies out there that would loan you money to meet your emergency needs, but becareful, they may ask you to give them your house, car, motor cycle or any of your valuables for collateral just in case you were unable to pay them back, but, they are very quick to take your valuables and you may not have any re-course to take them to court for doing so. I would stay away from such financing unless you have to...
There is going to be a time when we are going to need finance or re-finance our mortgages, car, motorcycle, big boat, air-planes etc., that we cannot come up with up-front lump sum money to pay for it This force us to turn to our bank, family friends, private capital market, small loan companies to loan us that money. This is where we are being taken advantage of by offering us some sort of un-affordable rates. At first you would think this a great opportunity that it will not be problem, you could afford that payment being offered to you by your lender, you better think again before you sign that dotted line. They could be collecting interest from you money for long time without any of it going to your principle.
Pay attention to dotted Line and Small print in the loan documents:
The loan documents can be very tricky to read when you are not an attorney, the small fine prints areas are very important areas to pay attention to, because this is where they hid rates, timeline, and warrante, but if you don't pay attention to the rates they quote or offer to you in the loan document that you are going to sign you could be losing a lot of money. You probably better off to take to your attorney before you sign the dotted line.
In the fine print of the loan documents is where they hid most important information that your lender did not want you to know about, especially mortgage and credit card documents. It sounds strange, but it is true, If you don't believe what I said here in this document, go to your loan documents and read the small prints in there you may find out something that you would not like to see or hear about, or if don't believe what I said here, ask yourself a question of why didn't they just print the whole loan documents in a readable format with nice fonts that an average third grader can read and understand it without having to scratch their head or look up words in the webster dictionary for interpretation of words, after all you are the consumer paying them for this services and they will be collecting interest from your financing for such a long time. 95% of mortgage homeowner never gets to the point of paying principle or their mortgage finance off before being taken away from them, but the bank or private investor already started to benefit. Yes, I understand they took the risk to finance us.
I think what is fair is fair, they should make the loan documents more readable for us, and there should be no small prints that is had to read on any loan documents. They should be in a readable format that average Joe can understand; my question all the years was why are they making it so complicated to read if they do not have anything to hide? I also think the loan documents should not have so many pages when we are talking about saving the threes... Not too many consumers read all these pages, it has no value to have so many pages when no one really reads it, of course the attorney will not be making money if they these document could be reduced to minimum.
My solution to this big fat loan documents should be to reduce them to minimum, all it should it be contain is, who own the house, the rate, how long is going to be paid, warranty, borrower's and co-borrower, and all other very valuable information it should not be more than 10 pages long.
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The A,B,C, & D's of In-House Financing
If you have considered the highly profitable finance end of the business and need to know how to buy contracts for in-house credit, try these simple rules. There are four qualities of contracts to buy. The A quality is very easy to purchase. That's usually the top 20% of the contracts that you look at. The bottom 20% or D quality is also easy to see, and usually rejected. The middle 60% or B and C quality are the contracts where the most money is made but need the best monitoring and better communications. So how do you decide what credit applications to accept? What do you do if you want to extend credit to someone with so-so credit? Down payments and limited credit amounts are a good start. Use all the tools available to you such as credit applications, credit bureau reports, credit scores, and a cash flow debt analysis. Is your customer bouncing from address to address or job to job or are they stable for a reasonable length of time? Their cash flow analysis tells you if they have enough money to take on another account. If the person pay their existing obligations, the credit bureau report will tell you Here is a step by step guide to buying contacts and evaluating your account portfolio: 1. Do you purchase A, B, C or D grade contracts? If you buy A-grade contracts the amount of down payment is not as important as if you purchase B- or C-grade contracts. Usually a down payment is made for two reasons: First to reduce the amount of the loan, and second, to give the borrower an investment in the contract, which makes the loan stronger. The bigger the down payment, the stronger the contract is. Usually B, C and D grade contracts demand a larger interest rate, require closer monitoring, and need faster communications. 2. Credit scores are heavily used in determining the quality of a contract, but should not be the only criteria used. Credit scores are very accurate based on available information. But because so many companies do not report their customer data to the credit bureaus there are accounts that would have a reduced credit score if all the information were known. 3. Your credit decision is based on Stability, Ability to Pay, and Willingness to Pay. A. Determining Stability is very important. If the customer is changing addresses and jobs frequently, the risk of delinquency or default of the contract increases. B. Analyzing Ability to Pay is equally important. If the borrower has too much of his disposable income contractually committed, he or she will have a difficult time making payments on your contract. This is a simple analysis: you must determine the ratio of committed obligations of the family compared to the total take-home pay. In other words, how much is coming in, and how much is going out? You must consider all the fixed expenses of the borrower, including your prospective loan, and adjust the percentage ratio accordingly. C. The Willingness to Pay is evident in the credit bureau reports. If the accounts are shown to be often delinquent, either the borrower has too many fixed expenses (he or she isn't able to pay all obligations) or chooses not to make payments. In either case, this increase s the risk of the account. When you analyze A, B and C on the credit application you can determine the grade of contract that you have the option you write, and your credit decision is then made. If it is an A grade contract, you can choose to extend the credit amount as it is, with little or no down payment. B or C grade contracts warrant a larger down payment, or perhaps a smaller loan (you might be able to divide the sale into two parts for example). You might choose to buy C or D grade contracts only if they have a cosigner. You must always remember, "If you extend credit, you must collect it". Another option is to use the Risk Management section of a credit management software package to track the credit scores and the debt ratio percentage of the accounts you approve. Such a package should be able to automatically grade the quality of the contracts in your portfolio so that if you find that the ratings are low- that is, your account portfolio isn't performing as well as you'd like- you can increase the credit and debt ratio data numbers as the basis for purchasing of the future accounts. This allows you to purchases the quality of accounts that you want in your account portfolio. Using these automated tools will substitute for years of experience. There is an old saying in the credit industry that, "You collect your account when you make it". So when you make the original contract, don't forget to ask the borrower if they can make the payment each month. Don't forget to inform them of the importance of making their payments on time each consecutive month. Instruct them that if they cannot make their payment to call you to explain why. You will be happy with the performance of your contracts if you follow these few guidelines. If you do not have a credit policy, it is important that you make one. A good policy is to have your finance person prepare the contract for the customer's signature(s). The first thing that should be said is "Thank You" for doing business with us. Don't forget to thank the customer to reassure them that they are appreciated. Verify the terms of the contract. Go over the terms of the sale and verify the original amount, interest rate, and payment due date and payment amount. Ask if the payment date is good for them so they can have their payments on time, and verify the payment amount. Remember that if you don't set the payment policy, the customer will and you won't like their policy.