How to decide when to take out a home mortgage and whether to pay it off early. How reverse mortgages can be a helpful retirement tool.
Topics covered include:
- Why it is more difficult to get a mortgage today
- How federal government mortgage guarantees lead to lower mortgage rates
- How to analyze whether to pay off your mortgage early
- The differences between personal risk, market risk, and aspirational risk
- How reverse mortgages work and how they can be useful as a retirement income tool
- What are the costs of reverse mortgages
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Show Notes
Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit 2021 Q1—Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Selling Guide: Lender Letter LL-2021-03, Impact of COVID-19 on Originations (03/11/2021)—Fannie Mae0
Mortgage Debt and Asset Allocation, Video by Ben Felix
Plus Episode 329: Robinhood, Mortgages and ETF Transparency—Money For The Rest of Us
How the HECM Program Works—U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Incorporating Home Equity into a Retirement Income Strategy by Wade D. Pfau
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