Can a first mortgage be refinanced to a lower rate if there is also an existing second mortgage?; Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS)

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Question by cookingmomma: Can a first mortgage be refinanced to a lower rate if there is also an existing second mortgage?
If a homeowner has a first mortgage and a second mortgage, and would like to refinance the first mortgage at different terms, can this be accomplished – does the existing second mortgage put a monkey-wrench in refinancing the first?

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Answer by Tim
Normally you roll them both together. You can get better rates on a 1st than a 2nd.

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Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS)
You guessed it… good old residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS)… the safest security in the land… apparently. With CLF, the bank agrees to buy the RMBS back from the bank at a fixed price at a later date. That's why it's called a repurchase
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