Sunday, 6 September 2015

Pay Off Car Loan Early - Benefits

There are many benefits to paying off a car loan early, and depending on your finances, it may be the right thing for you to do. You can pay your loans off early by making additional monthly car loan payments, increasing the amount of principal you pay each month or paying a large lump sum, but is it the right thing to do? Not all loans can be paid off early so you want to be sure that there isn't a penalty for early payoff. If there is, you may actually end up costing yourself more money in the long run. Let's take a look at the advantages of paying off your loan early.


The top benefits to paying off your car loan early include: 

1) you will save money by paying less interest, 

2) it will potentially help your credit, 

3) if you pay your car loan off with a home equity loan, you can deduct the interest from your taxes (you should factor in all considerations before doing this), 

 4) you can potentially save on car insurance.


Friday, 4 September 2015

Thursday, 3 September 2015

New unsecured loans beckon, but should you bite?

Late last summer, Jeff Whiting was going back and forth with his credit union about whose name should appear on the title of the GMC Yukon he was trying to finance. So the 35-year-old Austin, Texas, attorney went in a different direction, taking a $45,000 unsecured loan from an online lender instead.
The loan he got in late August - from private lending company LightStream - allowed him to avoid having a lien on the vehicle and also allowed him to sidestep the credit union's voluminous paperwork and opinions about whether his wife should be on the title. But his interest rate - 2.19 percent - was about the same as he would have received for a traditional car loan.