Excellent! Dealing with the confusing procedure of your home mortgage application turned out well. It was difficult indeed, the paperwork, the documentation of your earnings, expenses and debts, but you got through it all. Now you’re setting your sights on that dream vacation house. Give it a couple of years and it will be all yours. But before you start daydreaming about that vacation relaxation and fun, think hard first. Applying for mortgage for your vacation home is more complicated compared to what you just went through.
First of all, lenders will recognize the risks involved in an instant. Everything depends on subduing these risks. Lenders believe that people who are planning to get a vacation home mortgage are just jeopardizing themselves financially. And it’s likely that these people will be sucked into a “failure-to-pay” scenario; with higher interest rates exceeding that of their original home mortgage by 0.5% being slapped into their faces. The credit insurance rates are also a big factor. And they will also carry the burden of proving they have additional cash on hand. In your case, you will have a choice to relinquish the mortgage of your vacation home in case you went through with your plan, and resort to pull out a home equity loan on your primary house just to materialize the purchase. With this, you are already free from acquiring a new mortgage loan. Trouble is, the rates are higher than that of the mortgages’. What’s worse is that your primary house will be paraded as collateral. Imagine losing your house when it turned out you were having difficulties, financially.