Why Everyone Needs to Get a Personal Mortgage Life Insurance Quote

A big part of the American dream for most people is owning a home of their own, and the pursuit of realizing this dream is an expensive one. Once we have chosen our mortgage we find that, the monthly payments end up taking a big slice of our budget. In the event that either you or your spouse dies unexpectedly, the sudden loss of income can very well overwhelm the family and leave your surviving loved ones in a difficult situation, without the means to pay the bills--much less make mortgage payments. To protect your family and loved ones from such a financial hardship, you should consider getting a mortgage life insurance quote.

Mortgage life insurance has a decreasing death benefit that matches your mortgage balance at the beginning of each year. Since the death benefit decreases along with your mortgage balance, the cost of mortgage life insurance is much cheaper in comparison to a level term life insurance policy.

Often when you apply for a mortgage loan, the bank, along with the loan officer will sell you mortgage insurance. This is not actually mortgage insurance, instead it is a life insurance policy designed to protect the bank. They have you pay the policy premium, but the bank is the named beneficiary of the policy. Neither you nor your loved ones reap the benefit if the worst should happen. You end up paying for an expensive policy, owned by the bank in order to protect the bank.

Another catch in such a policy is that although the amount of the cover decreases overtime, the premium remains the same. In reality, the bank should decrease the premium over the coverage period but they do not. Therefore, you are stuck paying for the banks high-priced insurance, while the benefit decreases over the life of the loan. In addition, if you ever decide to refinance or pay off your loan the policy that you have been paying into will no longer be valid, since this type of policy is attached to the specific loan.

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