{"id":350,"date":"2012-08-28T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T18:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nboat.wpengine.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2012-08-28T16:19:11","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T20:19:11","slug":"marine-financing-changing-tides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/marine-financing-changing-tides.html","title":{"rendered":"Marine Financing Changing Tides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The trends of the marine financing market are changing, which is encouraging for those interested in purchasing a new boat or refinancing their current one. Now more than ever, credit is available for boat loans, interest rates are at historic lows, and loan criteria are beginning to ease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf a customer comes in and he\u2019s paying his bills and has a down payment, he\u2019s going to get a boat loan,\u201d says Coburn, a former president of the National Marine Bankers Association.<\/p>\n<p>Don Parkhurst, another former NMBA president said, \u201cThere\u2019s plenty of money available at historic low rates and more people are getting approved today than several years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is good news for boat dealers. Although boat sales increased only slightly in the first-half of this year, there is more incentive for those interested in purchasing a boat. For buyers with good credit scores there are fixed-rate loans as low as 4.5 percent.<\/p>\n<p>See what all the buzz is about on NBOA&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nboat.com\/marinefinance.cfm#.UD0ezMGPXnE\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Finance Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This blog post is based on an article featured on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradeonlytoday.com\/component\/content\/article\/4-features\/521083-boat-loans-changing-with-the-times\" target=\"_blank\">tradeonlytoday.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nboat.wpengine.com\/marine-financing-changing-tides.html\/sport-fish-yacht-at-speed-2\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-351\" title=\"Sport Fish Yacht at Speed\" src=\"http:\/\/nboat.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sport-Fish-Yacht-at-Speed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nboat.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sport-Fish-Yacht-at-Speed.jpg?w=1698 1698w, http:\/\/nboat.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sport-Fish-Yacht-at-Speed.jpg?w=300 300w, http:\/\/nboat.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Sport-Fish-Yacht-at-Speed.jpg?w=1024 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trends of the marine financing market are changing, which is encouraging for those interested in purchasing a new boat or refinancing their current one. Now more than ever, credit is available for boat loans, interest rates are at historic lows, and loan criteria are beginning to ease. \u201cIf a customer comes in and he\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[129,128],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-finance","tag-getting-a-boat-loan","tag-marine-finance-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nboa.largeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}