Once employment earnings cease, retirees tend to take a decently sized drop in their incomes. Social security benefits, for example, are but a small percentage of what retirees once made, while pensions are hardly heard of anymore.

The difference, however, is that retirees could potentially have hundreds of thousands of dollars stored away in their IRAs, 401(k)s, personal savings accounts, or other sources. Yet these same people sitting on substantial nest eggs are often shot down when they try to get a new mortgage or refinance their current ones. The reason? They just don’t have a high enough monthly income. read more