Do you like to settle your housing loan faster by paying it with a 0% loan?
Well, you can do it by arbitraging the 0% credit card balance transfer. To be sure, there is a limitation on how this can be done, and most importantly, it must be done with utmost finance discipline and a meticulous transaction record keeping.
Here is how it can be done
First, you charge all your daily necessary living expenses, the must have, into your credit card. Take note on the word “daily necessary living expenses,” it means the essential expenses only, not self-indulgence shopping spree. You than make a balance transfer – select only those with 0% interest.
What you try to achieve is instead of paying the credit card of what you have charged for the current month, you simply paying the minimum and dump the “balance” of the money that you owe to your housing loan.
For example, let say you charge RM1,000 of “must haves” to your card (that means you may have buy more than a month supply, beside those daily expenses like meal, petrol, etc), but instead of paying the RM1,000 at one go, you can choose to paying only RM100 to the card and use the remaining RM900 as an EXTRA PAYMENT to your housing loan. Then come to second month, where MOST of your ‘must haves’ already been taking care of, you use that “free” money to pay for the outstanding balance transfer. If you smart enough to do it correctly, over a period of time, you could save quite a lot on your housing loan cost.
Important Point
The key point to remember is while you are try to “blow-up”your credit card charges to meet the minimum balance transfer requirement (usually starts from RM1,000), you DO NOT SPEND MORE THAN YOU BUDGETED. If you do that, it defeats the entire purpose of this exercise.
Beside the “must haves”, if you already PLANNED AND SAVED UP the required money for a big ticket purchase such as furniture, household appliances, etc, this method will work as well.
Last but not least, to take advantage of the 0% balance transfer, you need to know everything about balance transfer, and have high self-discipline.
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On top of allowing standard balance transfers a few credit cards permit you to pay money straight into your bank account, yet you still get the special cheap balance transfer interest rates for housing loan. Therefore, you now have the 0% debt on the card and the cash in your bank account. This allows you all types of opportunities, hence why I call them Super Balance Transfers.