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How To Reduce Your Mortgage

December 22, 2009 by Rob Spring · Leave a Comment 

How to Reduce Your Mortgage
One Additional Mortgage Payment a Year
There’s a simple trick to significantly reduce the length of your mortgage and save you thousands of dollars. The trick is to make one extra mortgage payment a year and apply that payment toward your loan’s principal.
This is the method being used by “Bi-Weekly Mortgage Reduction [...]

Mortgage Rates: Fixed vs. ARM

December 8, 2009 by Rob Spring · Leave a Comment 

What are the advantages of fixed rate versus adjustable rate loans?
With a fixed-rate loan, your monthly payment of principal and interest never change for the life of your loan. Your property taxes may go up (we almost said down, too!), and so might your homeowner’s insurance premium part of your monthly payment, but generally with [...]