I did a buy/move/sale and for the 🏠 i bought I only put 16% and got a 2.875 rate with PMI. The plan was to pay the additional 4% after selling my prior home and get rid of pmi. I looked at refinance

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Rate today and I get a 2.75 with 0 closing costs but cash to close to roughly 7k with prepaids and such. The monthly difference is just $75. Does it make sense to
Refinance or just pay the existing servicer the balance to hit the 80 LTV and get pmi removed?

See if you are able to recast your loan instead. Usually have to pay a very small fee, but can potentially get rid of the PMI without the refinancing but keeps your orig interest rate.

Sure. When I closed they told I just need to pay the extra amount to get rid of it. Not sure if they meant recasting. Funny thing is they r transferring the service to a different provider after collecting just 1 month payment so not sure if I need to wait it out. I don’t want to pay the PMI unnecessarily as well.

Check the requirements of pmi removal, we recently refi’d and removed pmi - the previous servicer required 78% LTV to remove PMI and a minimum of 2 years in the loan. They required an appraisal as well. Was cheaper to refi in our situation, reduced interest rate, 0 closing costs and minimal prepaids.

Thanks D1. Normally the 78% LTV applies if you are gradually paying the mortgage and results in automatic removal. I will check with my servicer. Rate is already good for me. Unless it drops to 2.5 or so there is not much different

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