With an impending up-grade to the family due in a few months it soon became clear that our two-bedroom home would need an addition. We loved our house too much to consider moving. Not having the large sum of cash necessary to build it, however, we began a process that became a little more than burdensome. As my wife and I wandered in and out of financial institutions claiming to have “The lowest rates around” and discovering the degree of separation between institutions was greater than we had anticipated, it became very clear that this process would take a lot longer than we had originally thought.

As we were filling out the umpteenth loan application form one night a commercial for a popular insurance company came on. It offered to give us a free quote from them and from some of their competitors. I have no problem with the idea but I have always wondered how much effort they really put into finding the lowest rate available for the coverage needed. After all they too were trying to get our business. But then I had an idea!

Like some kid that had just realized a potential way to save themselves a ton of work, I went to the Internet and sure enough, there it was! A company that could take the same information that I had been supplying on application after application and shop it around for the best rates! It was over! No more wandering in and out of banks or finance companies to fill out the same paperwork over and over until I was literally cramping. In minutes they came back with the name of a place that would save us thousands of dollars over another company we had been interested in. We had now saved ourselves many hours of painstaking effort.

We started adding the addition the very next week. If you need a loan for any reason just get online and find yourselves an honest site that will find you the best rate possible. This is the Information Age and there are places online that can find you the best rate with less effort than you could ever hope to achieve on your own!

We all know the cost of not shopping around for the best rates. It can honestly add up to thousands of dollars over the course of your loan. Don’t work harder, grasshopper—work smarter!