Monday, 2 May 2011

An Uncomplicated Outline Of Secured Loans

By Bobby Lewis


Just as the name would suggest, secured loans are a type of loan that is taken against a form of security or collateral. Many a times, the item of purchase i. E. Property or car, is what is used as collateral and lien can always be placed on the purchase. As such, your lender will keep the log book or the title deed until you pay off the balance in full (plus the interest fees and all other applicable charges) before releasing the title or log book to you.

Other items like bonds, stocks, valuable jewelery, or personal property can also be used to get such financing. These types of credit are normally the best and fastest way to get access to large amounts of money. Living in such tumultuous economic times, lenders will not just use your word that you will repay back the money to lend you a large amount.

By putting something of value on the line, it is a safe guarantee that you are dedicated to repaying back the money, failure to which you risk losing your most treasured possession. There are various types of financing that fall under the secured financing category. They can be home equity lines of credit, home equity loans, remortgages, debt consolidation loans etc.

When you take a secured home equity mortgage, you are basically taking it against the total value of the accumulated equity, or the market value of your home minus the remaining balance on the mortgage. In such a situation, your home acts as the collateral that guarantees the lender of getting their money back should you default repaying back the loan as agreed.

On the flip side of the coin, a secured debt consolidation loan means that you will use a valuable property as security to take up a large amount of money that you will use to pay off your lenders. Most loans normally attract very high interest rates but with a secured loan, you will be guaranteed of low interest rates.

This means you get to not only enjoy the convenience of servicing a single loan, you get to save with the low interest rateswith a secured loan or remortgage.




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