Yes, you should have your loan officer check what your interest rate would be with a cosigner and without. If the cosigner has a lot of debt and not very high income it might be better not to put them on the loan.
You have to get the bank of financial institution to release the other person from the contract. In order to do that you must both contact them, and the insitution will decide if you have the nessessary assets and credit rating to have to loan only in your name.
My belief is that as long as the mortgage is paid on time by the borrower, there would be no reason to go after the cosigner estate.
As long as their debt to income ratio is low enough. Generally your mortgage payment should be 25-35% of your net income (what you actually bring home)
Yes. And you may be able to buy it without a co-signer.
Did you help make payments? If all you did is to cosign, then no.
YES!
You have to get the bank of financial institution to release the other person from the contract. In order to do that you must both contact them, and the insitution will decide if you have the nessessary assets and credit rating to have to loan only in your name.
Absolutely not!
My belief is that as long as the mortgage is paid on time by the borrower, there would be no reason to go after the cosigner estate.
As long as their debt to income ratio is low enough. Generally your mortgage payment should be 25-35% of your net income (what you actually bring home)
Yes. And you may be able to buy it without a co-signer.
Did you help make payments? If all you did is to cosign, then no.
The only option to be removed as a cosigner is to have the secured property refinanced without the cosigner being involved.
They cant legally "threaten" to do do anything that they cant legally do, so the answer is YES, they can attach your home.
If there is $5000 in other assets, no. But if the only assets are the home, yes, it will have to be sold to settle the debts.
You bet they can. The co-signor is just as legally liable for the debt as the first signor. Yes. A cosigner is usually equally obligated for the loan, so anything they can do to one signer they can do to the other.
The mortgage would have to be refinanced without the participation of the adult child as cosigner. Debts incurred before marriage do not become the responsibility of a new spouse.