Keith Gumbinger
Keith Gumbinger
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will even lend 103 percent of the homes value. You need to have very good credit to qualify for this kind of loan.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will even lend 103 percent of the homes value, ... You need to have very good credit to qualify for this kind of loan.
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Mortgage markets have been so flush with cash that home buyers are able to layer one risk on top of the other. It's possible to borrow more than the value of the home, put in no money of your own and pay a minimum monthly payment.
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For most home buyers, especially first-time buyers, taking a 15-year (or 20-year) mortgage is out of the question.
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Not only do you not own any of your home, but you may be piling up additional debts that could quickly exceed the value of the home. There are no guarantees that rates will remain at comfortable levels and no guarantee that home prices will continue to go up.
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No-money-down home purchases used to be the kind of thing you only saw on late night TV.
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This is very popular right now because it lets you draw some money out of your home and improve cash flow. If you do this, resist the temptation to draw too much equity out of your home.
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They're trying to make home prices more expensive, so some of this speculative activity will decrease, and incomes will have a chance to catch up.
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Someone who will be out of their home within five years to seven years can save some money with an ARM. But you have to be aware of the reality that interest rates are likely to be somewhat to significantly higher in three years, five years, 10 years down the road from today.
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For some people a home equity line of credit is a brand new shovel for digging themselves further into debt.
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Whenever business slips a little, lenders trot this stuff out.
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The question you need to ask yourself is, why would a bank be pitching you this product at this time? The obvious answer is that bankers believe rates will rise in the future. Getting you out of a fixed loan and into a variable one helps ensure profitability on your account.
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What is new today is that lenders are allowing for the layering of risks on top of one another. What we don't know is what if we put all these risks together and put them in a rising interest rate environment, a declining housing market, or a weakening economy.
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With rates as low as they are people can cut years off the mortgage for the same monthly payment.