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VA Home Loans
If you served active duty in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War or were a National Guard member or Reservist activated during the Persian Gulf Conflict and served at least 90 days before being honorably or generally discharged, you are eligible for a VA home loan. If you served during peacetime before 1980 you must have had more than 180 days of active service. If you served after 1980, you may have had to serve as much as two years to be eligible.
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Bad Credit Refinance
There are many reasons to look into refinancing, especially if you have bad
credit or if you are currently being harassed by creditors. If you:
- Are in need of debt consolidation
- Have a high interest loan
- Have an adjustable rate mortgage
- Would like to invest in home improvement or repair
- Need to pay for college tuition
- Have significantly repaired your credit report and would like to pay off
an old bad credit loan.
- Want to make a major purchase but do not have the funds
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Home Equity
The reverse mortgage is also an adjustable rate mortgage, but is unique because the homeowner (who must be 62 years or older) is at no time obligated to make monthly payments on the loan. The amount of the equity on the home is made available to the owner in full, in monthly advances or as a line of credit, only to be repaid after the life of the owner through the sale of the home or by the family if they would like to keep the home.
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Land Loan
Land loans, unlike mortgage loans, are provided solely for the purpose of acquiring land on which to build a new home. Land is a finite quantity anywhere you go and in today’s world it is at a premium because there is only so much to go around. Finding an appropriate lot for a home can be on the level of difficulty of finding an affordable loan for land. Financing can also be more difficult if the borrower intends to wait for more than a few months to build on the property because it adds to the perceived risk if the lot turns out to not be suitable for the building without major work done on the land.
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Mortgage Calculation
Mortgage calculation can also help you plan whether or not you would like to include extra payments in your repayment schedule. On the loan of $150,000 at 7% interest with a 30 year term and a monthly payment of $997, one extra yearly payment can save a homeowner nearly $50,000 in interest payments. If this loan had a 15 year term, the difference that of extra yearly payment would be far less impressive, saving just over $9,500. If you are interested in making an extra yearly payment and feel you it will not put too much strain on your finances, it is a good idea to discuss this with your lender. Extra payments can cause you to finish paying your balance before the scheduled end of the repayment period and some lenders have prepayment fees, so you should check to make sure there are no such penalties or include these extra payments in your repayment schedule.
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Mortgages Online
Other basic but important terms to understand are:
- Principal is the amount borrowed (on which interest acts) which is repaid
monthly
- Amortization is the process of repaying the amount borrowed through monthly
payments of principal and interest.
- Negative amortization is when the monthly payment is not high to adequately
pay the loan off. In this case interest builds too quickly and the principal
grows instead of decreasing. This can occur because of lender scams or because
of monthly payment caps.
- Equity is the value of your house left over after subtracting the total
of your mortgage. If your house has a market value of $130,000 and a mortgage
of $100,000, the equity is $30,000.
- An index is used to determine the rate on an adjustable rate loan. For some
loans this rate may be the Prime Rate or the average rate of a one year Government
Treasury Security.
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Reverse Mortgage
Once the borrowing period has ended, which does not occur during the life of the homeowner unless he or she decides to sell, the home does not necessarily have to be sold. The homeowner’s heirs can take out a regular mortgage in order to keep the home. Also, if the house is sold and the selling price does not cover the amount of the loan, the loss is covered by insurance, and not through the borrower’s estate.
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