I bought a home in '06 with 20% down and a 5-year interest only loan (interest only is great because it still gives you the option of paying the loan fully amortized). Now, I'm not an Option-ARM even though I reset in the same time frame as many, but checking LIBOR and where it is now, my payments would actually go DOWN on my reset.
Are you sure there's not alot of Option-ARM loans that would also share in this positive predicament? Certainly, anyone who put no money down and just paid the minimum payments is going to be in trouble even with a positive reset, but do we know what % of Option-ARM's are in that situation?
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I bought a home in '06 with 20% down and a 5-year interest only loan (interest only is great because it still gives you the option of paying the loan fully amortized). Now, I'm not an Option-ARM even though I reset in the same time frame as many, but checking LIBOR and where it is now, my payments would actually go DOWN on my reset.
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Are you sure there's not alot of Option-ARM loans that would also share in this positive predicament? Certainly, anyone who put no money down and just paid the minimum payments is going to be in trouble even with a positive reset, but do we know what % of Option-ARM's are in that situation?