{"id":153,"date":"2008-02-20T18:18:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T23:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darlenemackenzie.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2008-02-20T18:18:36","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T23:18:36","slug":"homeowners-left-confused-by-mortgages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/2008\/02\/20\/homeowners-left-confused-by-mortgages\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeowners confused by mortgages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can totally understand why people would be confused now a days by all of the different kinds of mortgages that are being offered.\u00a0 According to research that was done in the U.K., states that 2\/3 of people\u00a0claim that they would be confused and would find it extremely difficult to choose which mortgage would be best if they had to make their decision on it tomorrow.\u00a0 This figure is\u00a0somewhat alarming to me, but at the same time, it makes me feel as if I am not as stupid as I felt when I went through that same process 8 years ago.\u00a0 Boy did I feel inadequate when we purchased our house and then once again when we refinanced a few years ago.\u00a0 We muddled through but it was not what I would call a pleasant experience, but certainly worth it all in the end.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the shaky economy is making homeowners from all around the world feel very uneasy about making the choice of which mortgage would be in their best interest.\u00a0 Mortgage\u00a0companies can be a bit intimidating but if the chance comes around in the near future that we would benefit from refinancing once again, I know this time that I will need to talk to a lot of people that I gratefully have access to &#8211; you know,\u00a0a couple of\u00a0friends and\u00a0a few family members in the business. And I certainly would educate myself before even attempting to start talking with a lender.\u00a0 And really now with the Internet we have all of that important information right at our fingertips and I would certainly make good use of it for such a huge\u00a0investment such as home ownership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can totally understand why people would be confused now a days by all of the different kinds of mortgages that are being offered.\u00a0 According to research that was done in the U.K., states that 2\/3 of people\u00a0claim that they would be confused and would find it extremely difficult to choose which mortgage would be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/2008\/02\/20\/homeowners-left-confused-by-mortgages\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homeowners confused by mortgages&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/darlenemckenzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}