{"id":165,"date":"2008-12-30T07:55:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/real-estate\/refinancing-the-mortgage-to-take-advantage-of-lower-interest-rates\/"},"modified":"2008-12-30T07:55:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T14:55:30","slug":"refinancing-the-mortgage-to-take-advantage-of-lower-interest-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/banking\/refinancing-the-mortgage-to-take-advantage-of-lower-interest-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Refinancing the Mortgage to Take Advantage of Lower Interest Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, it\u2019s time to look at refinancing the old homestead\u2019s mortgage.&#160; I\u2019ve been putting it off because of holidays and the fact that rates can still go lower even though the <a href=\"http:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/personal-finance\/fed-cuts-interest-rates-to-zero-how-does-this-affect-your-mortgage-home-equity-line-and-credit-cards\/\">Fed recently cut rates to zero<\/a>.&#160; Now, it\u2019s time to take a serious look at refinancing and how it might work out for my family.&#160; I\u2019ll be posting a series of articles here on Finance Gourmet to help guide you through the process.&#160; By writing these articles in \u201creal time\u201d with my refinance adventure, you can see the whole process from A to Z and use it as a guide for your own refinancing now, and in the future.<\/p>\n<p>To make sure you don\u2019t miss out, I recommend grabbing the RSS feed.&#160; If you aren\u2019t familiar with RSS or \u201cfeeds\u201d, they are basically a way to get the article pulled from here by a RSS reader which is just software that goes and gets articles from the websites you ask it to watch.&#160; That way, you don\u2019t have to remember to open your bookmarks to get back here.&#160; It is kind of like the old idea of subscribing to emails that updated you on website content, but this way, all of your articles are kept separate and your inbox does get filled up with article postings from a bunch of web sites.<\/p>\n<p>If you have never used RSS feeds before and you have a Google account, you can just use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/help\/reader\/tour.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google\u2019s feed reader<\/a>.&#160; That way, you don\u2019t have to install any software, and if you decide to junk the whole thing, you can just delete your feed reader subscriptions and you\u2019re done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, it\u2019s time to look at refinancing the old homestead\u2019s mortgage.&#160; I\u2019ve been putting it off because of holidays and the fact that rates can still go lower even though the Fed recently cut rates to zero.&#160; Now, it\u2019s time to take a serious look at refinancing and how it might work out for my family.&#160; I\u2019ll be posting a series of articles here on Finance Gourmet to help guide you through the process.&#160; By writing these articles in \u201creal time\u201d with my refinance adventure, you can see the whole process from A to Z and use it as a guide for your own refinancing now, and in the future. To make sure you don\u2019t miss out, I recommend grabbing the RSS feed.&#160; If you aren\u2019t familiar with RSS or \u201cfeeds\u201d, they are basically a way to get the article pulled from here by a RSS reader which is just software that goes and gets articles from the websites you ask it to watch.&#160; That way, you don\u2019t have to remember to open your bookmarks to get back here.&#160; It is kind of like the old idea of subscribing to emails that updated you on website content, but this way, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Refinancing the Mortgage to Take Advantage of Lower Interest Rates\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/banking\/refinancing-the-mortgage-to-take-advantage-of-lower-interest-rates\/#more-165\" aria-label=\"Read more about Refinancing the Mortgage to Take Advantage of Lower Interest Rates\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[270,293,361,420],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banking","category-real-estate","tag-home-loans","tag-interest-rates","tag-mortgages","tag-refinancing","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financegourmet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}