Friday, March 7, 2008

Pay Option Mortgage Loan

This loan is designed to give borrowers maximum payment flexibility. By allowing as low a payment as possible, with options to pay more, borrowers are given greater control of their monthly cash flow. In addition, this program has low annual optional payment caps and an attractive life cap (cap is a limit on a potential interest rate increase). NOTE: the Pay Option ARM is now available in 3, 5, 7 or 30 year fixed. So technically this is call a hybrid Pay Option ARM or 30 Year Fixed Pay Option.

The minimum payment for this program could be up to 50% less than your traditional payment. Program Design: This loan is designed to give borrowers maximum payment flexibility. By allowing as low a payment as possible, with options to pay more, borrowers are given greater control of their monthly cash flow. In addition, this program has low annual optional payment caps and an attractive life cap.

Basics: This program is based on the Monthly Treasury Average (MTA), if you are not using the 30 year fixed option. The MTA is a very stable index used to determine the monthly interest rate. It is derived from the twelve-month average of monthly yields on activity traded U.S. Treasury Securities.

How the Pay Option ARM Works: The borrower's first year payment is based on a low interest rate, with terms as long as forty years. Minimum payments are adjusted annually, with the option to ensure monthly payments will not increase by more than 7.5% annually. The borrower is only required to pay the minimum payment. They can pay that amount, or more. The borrower is provided with up to three options each month:

  1. The minimum payment,
  2. The interest only payment,
  3. The full payment- a payment that will amortize the loan over the remaining loan term
Loan Term: This is the period of time in which you pay your mortgage. A traditional mortgage is 30 years. With the Pay Option ARM your term is 40 years. How does this affect me? If you owe $1,200 and pay this over a year that would give you a payment of $100 a month. If you increase the term to 2 years your payment would drop to $50 a month. This is a very simple example with no interest, get the idea? Now you can see that changing the term from 30 to 40 years would greatly reduce your monthly mortgage payment, without any other factors.

Optional Limited Payment: The monthly payment will not increase by more than 7.5% from the prior year's monthly payment amount, regardless of the increase in interest rate.

Optional Interest Only Payment: The monthly payment will be applied towards interest only. This means that the monthly payment will not reduce the principal balance.

Full Payment: The monthly payment that would be sufficient to repay the unpaid principal over the full term of the loan.

Deferred Interest: If the monthly payment is less than the amount of the interest portion, the monthly payment amount will be subtracted from the interest portion and this difference will be added to the unpaid balance. For example-let's say your fully indexed rate is 4.5%* and you only pay 1.5%* each month. That means you would pay $250 a month for a $200,000 home. That leaves 4.5% minus 1.5%- 3% in interest each month. This interest is added to your mortgage balance. Wow! Why would I want to do that? Well, if your house appreciates (increases in value over time) let's say 20%, that leaves 17% each year that is yours. You would realize this equity when you sell your home. However, now, when you need it you will have greatly enhanced cash flow.

Qualifications
1) You need to have 4 trade lines reporting on your credit for the past 24 months.

2) No derogatory reporting on your credit in the last 24 months and all collections over $200 satisfied.

3) Down payment- this program does provide 100% financing; however, a full document loan only.

*Interest Rates and programs are subject to change without notice. Rates may not be available at time of loan application or commitment.

Miles Loss
Licensed Mortgage Broker

Mortgage and Refinance and Home Purchase

Miles is a Licensed Mortgage Broker with over 20 years of finance industry experience. Miles is known as the "go to guy" by the Realtors and real estate investors in his area for both Residential & Commercial Mortgages. Miles brokers mainly in Florida but also covers GA, TN, NY and IN.



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