BENEFITS Any mortgage that can save you close to the purchase price of your home in mortgage interest, while cutting your term from 30 years to 20, and allowing you to pay down your principal 3 times faster is bound to be popular. But why refinance? Unfortunately, for most homeowners, they will spend thousands of dollars to refinance needlessly. why would any homeowner spend $3,000 to $5,000 to refinance a home with a new biweekly mortgage or a 15 to 20 year mortgage? That's easy. It's because they don't know they can use a system like the equity acceleration program to accomplish virtually the same result...for a fraction of the cost banks charge to refinance to accelerate the payoff of any home. The equity acceleration program is better By using the program they won't have to refinance and go through the new loan qualification problems; they will save thousands of dollars in refinance costs; if they miss a few payments, they will not be dropped from the program as is the case with bank biweekly mortgages; if they lose their job and need to drop out of the program temporarily, they can easily get back in, at no charge. And this can be done with an FHA, VA, conventional, fixed, ARM, or any other mortgage, almost without exception. No refinancing So, by signing up with an equity acceleration program, they can gain essentially all the advantages of the biweekly mortgage, or short term mortgage, without refinancing. Call any bank Even to this day, you can call almost any bank and tell them you have a 30 year loan and want to pay off your home in 20 years. Instead of encouraging you to prepay your loan, they'll try to sell you on refinancing your home to a 20 year loan! And all so they can make a few thousand dollars in origination fees as profit! It's their business to try to refinance homeowners because that's how they make money. Each time they refinance a loan or originate a new one, they add several "points" to the loan for "processing costs" and that adds an average of $4,000 to a real estate mortgage which must be repaid...with interest added on! Banks want to make money Banks won't encourage anyone to prepay a loan because it adds to their servicing costs and the way they look at it, why not sell a refinance package instead? That's great for the banks but terrible if you're a homeowner wanting to save money.