When we first bought our love potion starter collection from Madame Destinia, she warned us that we’d have to repeat the love spell we’re casting once a month for six months for it to really take. We definitely want it to take, so we set ourselves a little reminder on our phone: on the first of every month, we’ve got a scheduled recast of our love spell. That girl from the bus stop will never know what hit her.
Of course, in the mortgage world, the term “scheduled recast” means something totally different. And, surprise, it has nothing to do with spells and love potions.
In the mortgage world, a “scheduled recast” is when our mortgage payments automatically adjust according to a predetermined adjustment schedule. We’ll see this most often in the option ARM world, where we can pay different amounts toward the mortgage loan every month.
Like...let’s say we just secured a 30-year option ARM mortgage with an introductory interest rate of 2.79%. Every month, we can make the full principal-plus-interest payment of $1,000, we can make an interest-only payment, or we can make an even smaller minimum payment. After 24 months, as per our loan agreement, we’ll hit our first scheduled recast date. This means our lender is going to look at how much we owe, how much we’ve paid off, and our payment history, and they’re going to redo our payment schedule and amount based on those numbers. If we haven’t been making the full payment every month, there’s a good chance our payment amount could go up, in addition to our interest rate increasing.
Scheduled recasts are outlined in our mortgage docs, so if we are thinking of going the option ARM route, we should pay close attention to when they are, and what the recast will mean for us.
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Finance: What is Interest Only Mortgage?17 Views
Finance allah shmoop what is an interest only mortgage Well
simply put it's when you only pay the rent on
the dough you borrowed you don't pay down the principal
you owe like if you have a three hundred thousand
dollars mortgage at six percent interest you're paying eighteen grand
a year to rent that money in six percent times
three hundred rands eighteen grand a year But the principal
you borrowed is likely due in thirty years So in
theory anyway if it were a normal mortgage you'd want
to pay down the principal little bit a month as
you go along like averaging ten grand a year in
principle pay down over thirty years That's times ten grand
right three hundred grand their total owning your home at
the end yeah yeah priceless that's what holmes work So
why would you want an interest only mortgage Well for
one thing the monthly payments or less so maybe you
could afford morehouse If on a thirty year three hundred
thousand dollar loan at six percent you're paying interest only
while you're writing a check each month for eighteen thousand
divided by twelve or fifteen hundred bucks maybe that's all
You can afford well the extra five hundred bucks arm
or you'd right toe pay down your principles Just not
something you can really do right now Maybe after three
years of scrimping and saving well you'll be able to
start paying down that principal reducing risk and making life
easier all the way around But right now you can't
afford it so the only thing you can do is
do the interest only dance Well the other reason you
might want an interest only mortgages that interest costs are
tax deductible Principal pay down costs are not so if
in a given mortgage payment of say eighteen hundred bucks
a month where three hundred of it is principal pay
down and fifteen hundred of it is interest well on
ly the fifteen hundred is tax deductible That three hundred
of pay down is not And if you're a forty
percent taxpayer the government is essentially picking up the tax
savings on the fifteen hundred times a forty percent at
six hundred dollars in interest You're paying such that they
quote feel unquote like the fifteen hundred is really only
about nine hundred a month in cost to you the
three hundred bucks and principal paydown feels like a full
three hundred dollars So some people seeking tio optimize their
tax deductions live in the world of interest only mortgages
and let the government for a change You know work 00:02:26.24 --> [endTime] for them How's that feel same all Take it
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