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Comment by Gagarin1917

4 hours ago

Trying to decide whether to refinance now or not feels like gambling too. Yet it’s financially beneficial to make some bet.

Defining “Gambling” like isn’t really helpful.

If I said I had a machine where I put in "tokens", watch it spin, and either get nothing or something valuable (with which I get being largely chance), you'd presume it's some kind of slot machine. The important things IMO are the random chance of getting something and being able to keep retrying so rapidly.

You can't keep paying to play the "refinancing game" until you get a good rate (at least not like pulling the lever again and again, you have to wait a long time, you won't call the same bank again and again, and suddenly they have an amazing rate), it's a different experience and the psychology is different.