Showing posts with label Mortgage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mortgage. Show all posts

Saturday, November 7, 2009

Pros and Cons of Reverse Mortgage

Reverse mortgage are very well accepted in US nowadays. FHA (Federal Housing Administration) was the first one to create it. There is a reverse mortgage program of FHA which is called as HECM loan. The HECM (Home Equity Conversion Mortgage) program helps you to take out a few of the equity in your residence. The elder Americans consider it as a safe plan to obtain financial hold. Many people use it as a supplementary support which can help them in medical expenses, make residence enhancement and loads of more.  We can define reverse mortgage as a type of loan provided by reverse mortgage lenders which switches a part of the equity in your residence into currency. This equity is made with the intention to put together up with many years of residence mortgage payments are capable to pay to you. To become eligible for this loan you should be of 62 years of age with your own home. HECM calculation is best to know your eligibility.


Your home could be of two types. Either it should be one family unit home or it can be 1-4 unit residence in the midst of one borrower has occupied it. It is different from bank home equity loan. In bank home equity loan you should have enough revenue against debt proportion to become eligible for loan. In this case you have to make monthly mortgage costs. The amount of money which you can get from your home depends on how old are you, the interest rates of present era, and the evaluated price of your residence, whichever is a smaller amount. Reverse mortgage has its cons and disadvantages. The biggest advantage is that the property owner need not have to pay monthly payments. The procedure of qualification is extremely simple. However there could be various fees which could be a little far above the ground.  

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Adjustable Rate Mortgage

An adjustable rate mortgage is a mortgage on which the borrower is required to pay an interest rate which can change over time. This is the most common type of mortgage. Changes in the mortgage interest rates are based on a declared interest rate index. This index is usually the interest rate set by the central bank in the economy and, at any rate, must be specified in the initial mortgage agreement. Usually, home equity line of credit feature some limitations on the degree to which the interest rate or the related payments on the underlying debt can vary within a given time period. These limitations are formally known as “caps”. Typical caps might include a provision that the interest rate vary by no more than 2% within one year, or that no more than two interest rate adjustments be made within a twelve month period.

Some home equity loans may be offered on the basis of rates which are fixed for a period of time and then are allowed to vary. Because they carry more uncertainty than fixed rates mortgages, adjustable rate mortgages to some extent represent a gamble on the future state of the economy, and can either impose unexpected hardship on the mortgage-holding families or result in an unexpectedly low financial burden for them if the economy moves in the right way.