Private mortgage insurance (PMI) is a gimmick that many lenders put into place to presumably protect their loans from lenders who may default on a mortgage or home mortgage refinancing. But in reality, it is just another way a lender is able to make big money on new mortgage rates where the lender doesn’t put a full 20% down. Oftentimes, buyers either don’t have the full 20 percent or don’t want to put that much of a down payment on their home mortgage refinance loan. For those that don‘t want to pay private mortgage insurance, lenders have developed a system known as piggy back loans to allow a borrower to take a second mortgage or equity home mortgage line of credit to make up the difference between the amount of money he will contribute as a down payment and the balance owed to make the full 20 percent down payment. Private mortgage insurance is actually very expensive , and taking a second loan to make up the difference between a borrower’s down payment and the balance toward that ...
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