Getting a mortgage and purchasing a home plays an
important role in an Americans life these days.
Generally people cannot afford to purchase a home
outright with cash reserves, so they opt instead to
begin looking at getting a mortgage and purchase a
home. Getting a mortgage is a complex process but is
tempered by an exciting outcome. Getting a home
loan involves signing an agreement with a bank or
lender to pay them a certain amount of interest on a
specified amount of money that they will lend to you so
that you can purchase residential property. The home
loans are then secured against the residential property
which they are used to purchase.
Home loans in America attract different interest rates
according to the institution you lend from, but you will
find that they are generally lower than a standard
personal loan or credit card offered by the same
institution. The bank or lender can usually afford to
offer an amount of interest lower on home loans
because of the extended period of years in which you
will be paying interest, as opposed to a personal loan
or credit card which is usually paid off in a shorter
amount of time. Loan repayments on mortgages are
usually paid fortnightly or monthly and have a term of
around 25-30 years.
There are two major types of home loans in America
now, with a third type becoming more popular in recent
years. The first type of loan is the fixed home loan
which allows you to borrow the money at a specified or
fixed rate of interest for a specific numbers of years.
Many borrowers sign up for this loan because in doing
so they avoid the risk of having to incur extra expenses
if home loan interest rates should fluctuate.
The second type of loan is the variable home loan
which has a variable or changing rate of interest.
Should the Reserve Bank determine that interest rates
will move up or down in a particular quarter, then your
lender has the freedom to also do so accordingly. If
the rates are heading downwards it is ideal for
borrowers. But should they begin to trend upwards this
can spell danger for many people who live on a tight
budget and already struggle to make their monthly
repayments.
The third loan, which is becoming more popular in
American is the bad credit type loan otherwise known
as the low doc loan. Bad credit or low doc home
loans may sometimes be slightly more expensive in
terms of setup or maintenance fee and usually attract
a high rate of interest over the course of the loan. This
offsets the lenders increased risk at the borrower
having a poor or indeed no credit history and possibly
defaulting on the payments after getting the mortgage.
These loans are particularly popular with people who
have a bad credit history, people who have low
incomes including those who receive social welfare
payments and people who are self employed.
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