Rate Buydowns
Rate Buydowns
When you get a mortgage, you DO have some control over your interest rate.
One way to get a better rate is through a rate buydown, which can lower your monthly payments.
Buying Mortgage Discount Points
The easiest way to buy down your mortgage rate is to buy discount points. Each point is 1.0 percent of your mortgage amount, and reduces your mortgage rate by 0.25 percent. For example, if you are offered a 6 percent interest rate on a $100,000 loan, you can pay one point ($1,000) to get a 5.75 percent interest rate instead. You can buy down your interest rate by up to 1.0 percent to reduce your interest costs and get a lower payment.
Before you choose to complete a rate buydown, make sure you take the time to compare your monthly savings with how long you plan to own the home. How many months will it take to break even? The longer you stay in the home, the more a rate buydown will pay off.
Sometimes you can roll the cost of discount points into your home loan, but this can defeat the purpose of the points by reducing your savings and changing your loan-to-value ratio, which may make other costs go up.
Mortgage Rate Buydowns
Doing a rate buydown is usually a better option than an adjustable-rate mortgage that allows for negative amortization, like an option ARM, if you will be in the home for many years. Your monthly mortgage payment will always include some amount of interest and principal.
You may choose a 3-2-1 rate buydown, which is a 30-year home loan with an interest rate that increases 1.0 percent per year for the first three years. After that, your interest rate will remain the same. The advantage of this option is you will not begin paying the high payment in the beginning. Your payments will be kept low for 36 months, and this can be a good option if you expect your income to go up.
You can also request a 2-1 buydown option, which gives you a 30-year mortgage with a rate that goes up 1 percent every year, for the first two years.
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Mortgage Investors Group, based in Tennessee, offers residential financing in a number of states in the southeast, See MIG Service Areas. Terms and conditions to apply to home financing. We want to share with you the loan terms vary based on several characteristics and your financial profile. These include but are not limited to loan program, loan purpose, occupancy, credit history, credit score, assets, and other criteria per loan type. The repayment terms and interest rate may vary from time to time. The terms represented here are based on certain assumptions outlined below and/or noted on the loan outline page. Additional details concerning privacy, program disclosures, licensing specifics may be found at migonline.com Legal Information.
MIG Loan Officers will help gather the information needed for an individual assessment to provide home financing which matches the loan characteristics with your home financing needs based on your financial profile, when you are ready to begin a full loan application. For estimates and general information before that step, the basis for which the mortgage financing information are as follows:- Rates are subject to change at any time.
- Rate locks are available at current terms for 30 to 180 days based on program type, credit profile, property location, etc. which will affect the available rate and term.
- Payments will vary based on program selection, current rates, property location, etc.
- Not all programs are available in all states.
- Some loan programs may not be available to first time home buyers.
- Terms and conditions apply, which may include restrictions or limits per loan program.
- Information is generally based on primary residence occupancy with no cash out when refinancing.
- Unless otherwise stated, terms shown are estimates based in part on credit score of 700 or higher; owner occupancy, escrow account is established for taxes and insurance(s); debt-to-income ratio no higher than 43.0%; PMI applies to conventional loan programs over 80.0% LTV; VA,FHA & RD require insuring fees included in loan and/or payment; fixed rate, 30 year term.
An MIG Loan Officer is available to help with your financial details to determine which characteristics apply to your situation for a personalized look into which loan program best fits your home financing needs. Please use the Find a Loan Officer link or reach out to Mortgage Investors Group at 800-489-8910. Equal Housing Lender 1.2020
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