Renewing your mortgage is the single biggest financial decision most homeowners make every 5 years – and most people spend less time on it than choosing a phone plan. Your bank knows this. That renewal offer arrived in an envelope designed to feel routine, official, and final. It is none of those things. It is their opening bid, sent to customers who statistically sign and return without a single call to another lender.
Renewing your mortgage is the single biggest financial decision most homeowners make every 5 years – and most people spend less time on it than choosing a phone plan. Your bank knows this. That renewal offer arrived in an envelope designed to feel routine, official, and final. It is none of those things. It is their opening bid, sent to customers who statistically sign and return without a single call to another lender.
That's the average extra cost, over 5 years, of accepting your bank's first renewal offer instead of comparing 50+ lenders.