The Refinance process may sometimes be too time-consuming and even frustrating to some people. Some people may like the refinancing to be handled by experts. Such people prefer to hire a Refinance Advisor to handle the process.

Refinance Advisors are individual professionals or firms that specialize in helping the Refinance applicant to secure the Refinancing loans. They are known by different names, such as mortgage professionals, mortgage brokers, loan officers, consolidation advisors and more.

Their most important function is to initiate the applications and process them for submission to lenders. Each Advisor may work for several borrowers and lenders.

How do these Advisors help the applicant? They explain every aspect of the loan [including the interest rate, how much is to be repaid and in what time duration, the amount of the borrowers late fee in case there is any delay in repayment, methods to handle late fees etc], study the applicants credit situation, create a credit portfolio, estimate the credit score, and submit all the documentation to the lender for approval. In case the application is not approved, for instance due to bad credit, the Advisor may guide the applicant to fix the problem.

The main source of income for a great majority of Refinance Advisors, whether they are individuals or firms, is the business commission they derive from each customer. So securing a Refinance loan is as important to them as it is to the borrower. However, just like in buying a new car, a borrower needs to do some window shopping so that he or she can get the best deal.