Locked-In Interest Rate

  

See: Fixed Rate.

When your interest rate is locked in, it's...set. Like if you buy a home and you have a 4.6% 30-year fixed mortgage attached to it, that rate is locked in. If rates go down, you don't benefit; if they go up, you don't take the hit.

They are fixed. Certain. Done. And wonderfully boring.

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