Aug 21 2009

How To Repay Your Thirty Year Mortgage In Twelve Years?

Is the theorem of making 360 monthly mortgage payments getting the best of you? Will the feeling of helplessness just not let up? Are you provoked out of your intelligence when you focus on all the years you will be making those large home loan payments and all of the $100,000′s of interest fees that [...]

Aug 15 2009

Why Select An Adjustable Rate Mortgage?

Variable rate mortgages are appealing to many house buyers, but what are the risks? An variable rate mortgage is one in which the rate moves based essentially on the market IRs. The rate will adjust on a specific schedule, say each year, after an initial fixed period. Fixed periods range between half a year to [...]

Aug 10 2009

Is The 50-Year Mortgage For You?

This is a curious idea, but not as curious as it may be : At the top of the property boom in Japan some houses were bankrolled with 100-year mortgages. The 30-year mortgage that’s now the gold standard of Yank home finance was once almost unknown. In the early part of the twentieth century most [...]