Is it a good time to refinance your property before for rate rise even more?

With all the current uncertainty in the markets, recent interest rate hikes, and the fed’s talk of continuing to hike rates through out the year, the decision to refinance should be made carefully. Why are you trying to refinance? For cash out? To lock in a rate? To take advantage of current rates before they increase even more? In today’s episode Emil, Tom and Michael discuss what they think is important to consider before deciding, and Michael shares his recent experience with a lender backing out of a deal.   Before we jump into the episode, here's a quick disclaimer about our content. The Remote Real Estate Investor podcast is for informational purposes only, and is not intended as investment advice. The views, opinions and strategies of both the hosts and the guests are their own and should not be considered as guidance from Roofstock. Make sure to always run your own numbers, make your own independent decisions and seek investment advice from licensed professionals.   Emil: Hey everyone, welcome back for another episode of the Remote Real Estate Investor. My name is Emil Shour and today I'm joined by my co-hosts…   Tom: Tom Schneider   Michael: and Michael Albaum   Emil: …and on this episode we're going to be diving into refinances. Is it too late as rates are going up, or should you do it now or what's what do we all do it? So let's hop into this episode.   What are we doing with our lives? Hey, guys. Hey, Tom, welcome back.   Tom: Yeah, yes. What’s up Emil, what's up, Michael?   Emil: How you doing?   Tom: Excellent, excellent. Hey, but a quick, quick personal note. I was been working in my garage trying waiting to build this little lot of land and I started getting lightheaded and I realized that there is some just kind of like, toxic fumes in my garage. So back in the house, so apologies if you hear some baby noises while we're waiting to build out the exterior office. That's my yeah, I am doing good man, not not lightheaded anymore, so…   Michael: and the baby's not in the garage?   Tom: ….Right Dukes of Hazzard area. Yeah, we switched babies in I mean, it's good young lungs, like they feel. Obviously…     Emil: Did you have the gas company come out and like, report on, what's going on?   Tom: I did, they gotta have to come back again. So they came out, I mean, there's like two like gas entry points into the house. There is like a little further away the house like, like a little gear thing you tighten and then next to the house, there's the meter. They replaced all the meter stuff and I think it helps, but there's still stills of issue. So anyways, don't want to go too deep into that rabbit hole, yeah…   Michael: Never a dull moment with Tom Schneider.   Emil: Alright. Well, I'm glad you are alive, your brain cells are hopefully intact for this episode and yeah, let's get rolling. All right, so we're recording this, it is April 11. Interest rates have been climbing pretty quickly. I think I'm hearing four and a half 5% plus, when we were in like, you know, I got to 2.8 on my primary back in November, so four or five months, pretty crazy how quickly rates have gone up? And Michael, I think you have some pretty interesting going on you were in the middle of a refi currently. And give, I'm not gonna put words in your mouth. Go ahead, tell us tell us what's going on.   Michael: So not even in the middle of a refi, I was at the end of it, I was supposed to close today and the lender calls me he goes, hey, Michael, we're not going to be able to do this loan. I'm like, what do you mean, we're not gonna be able to do this loan, he goes, yeah, at the rate that we locked you out, we're, we're not going to be able to do it and so basically just give everyone a little bit of context. I started this investigation like three months ago into getting 30 year fixed mortgages for multifamily commercial property. So five units and up, and I found a lender that would do it and I was making them compete against other lender