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you refinance your mortgage with another lender, you almost always pay at least
a day or two of overlapping interest on both loans. No one is cheating you; it's
simply the way the system works. Lenders try to shorten the period that you pay
overlapping interest. They boil their policy down to one phrase: Don't fund on
Fridays. There's more to it than that, though. "This
is a relatively simple issue," says Dick Lepre, a loan officer at RPM Mortgage
in San Francisco. Then he digs into a complex explanation about why you should
make sure your refinancing transaction is funded early in the week and not just
before a holiday. "You
have to look at it from the point of view of your old lender and your new lender,"
Lepre says: Both lenders are entitled to earn interest from the day they lend
the money until the day they receive final payment. In
a refinancing transaction, the new lender funds the loan by wiring money to the
bank of the escrow agent or attorney who is responsible for disbursing the money.
As soon as the new lender sends that money, the clock starts ticking and you pay
interest. The
old lender doesn't get the payoff money immediately. Some states, including California,
have "good funds" laws that require the escrow agent to sit on the money
overnight. There might be paperwork to fill out at the title company and at the
county recorder's office. And,
customarily, the escrow agent pays off the old loan by sending a cashier's check
by overnight courier. The courier is cheaper and less of a hassle than wiring
the money. All
the while, you're paying interest on both loans. Days
upon days.
In an optimistic scenario, your new lender wires the money
to the bank of the escrow agent on Monday. The escrow agent FedExes a cashier's
check that day to the old lender, which receives it on Tuesday and stops charging
interest. You paid overlapping interest only on Monday. Add another day if your
state requires the money to sit in the bank overnight. What
if your loan is funded on a Friday? Perhaps the old lender gets the check on Monday,
and you have paid overlapping interest on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Whether
those two extra days are a big deal depends upon your perspective. If you borrowed
$150,000 two years ago at 8.5 percent, you're paying about $33 a day in interest. Article
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