Cool home loans and financial website: GetSmart

Lots of library patrons are looking to save money these days and several of you have probably already received patrons asking about how to refinance home loans. Of course as librarians we do not give financial advice, but we CAN refer people to helpful financial related websites. I recently learned about a cool home loans website that may help some of your library patrons. It is called GetSmart. You can see the GetSmart website at http://www.getsmart.com/.

GetSmart offers information on home loans, as well as other financial information that is written in an easy to understand format (which your patrons will appreciate)! The website is very easy to navigate, which is one of the things I really like about this site. GetSmart offers a quick "two minute" form that people can fill out that will instantly connect them with five lenders competing for their business. There are over 200 lenders that are connected with the GetSmart website, so this should increase the chance of getting good refinance rates! There are also helpful mortgage calculators and refinance calculators on the site. Some of the other useful features include the loan resources, FAQ, and testimonials. (These are the colored tab sections on the main page.) For those of you with student loans (that's probably about all of us, ha ha!), there is even a student loan section. So check out GetSmart and then share the info with your patrons!

***Obviously, I would recommend that anyone providing financial information do so on a secure and non-public computer at home, rather than at a public computer in a library.