The US government has blessed us with the ability to deduct our mortgage interest expense from our income. This thereby enables us to lower our tax liability. The maximum mortgage tax deduction ultimately depends on income, which I’ll get into below. Although you could deduct mortgage interest on up to $1 million in mortgage indebtedness […]
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One of the most common paths to building wealth is through homeownership. However, when there isn’t a level playing field for all people to buy a home, then there’s a problem. This article looks at mortgage interest rates by race to see if there are any differences. Below is a chart highlighting mortgage rates by
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For the longest time, I’ve been a proponent of the adjustable rate mortgage (ARM). Paying a higher rate for a longer duration than necessary doesn’t make economic sense. However, when the average 30-year fixed mortgage was under 3% in 2021, I no longer was as biased against 30-year fixed-rate mortgages. A sub-3% average 30-year fixed
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As soon as your real estate offer gets accepted, you should notify your lender with the relevant ratification documents and lock in a rate. The rate lock is usually for 30 – 60 days. However, sometimes things take longer than expected and you need to get a mortgage interest rate extension. A mortgage interest rate
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Millions of people are quitting their jobs today in order to find more meaning with their one and only life. There are two things everyone should do before leaving your job: 1) Negotiate a severance package and 2) refinance your mortgage. If you do both, you are going to significantly improve your finances in the
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One of the reasons why I think the housing market will stay strong for years to come is because getting a mortgage nowadays is extremely difficult. When lenders are only lending to the people with the highest credit and a minimum 20% down, it’s hard to see mass defaults in the future. Ever since the
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Are you about to payoff your mortgage? Congratulations! There are some important mortgage payoff fees, documents, and procedures to know. Unfortunately, you don’t just send your final payment and that’s it. You’ve got to go through some hoops. In 2015, I finally paid off the mortgage of the very first property I bought in 2003.
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Before you submit a real estate offer, you should be already preapproved for a mortgage. Getting preapproved for a mortgage is now the bare minimum in a strong real estate market where bidding wars are common. Sellers won’t want to waste their time with potential buyers who are not preapproved. During a soft real estate
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If you want to pay all cash for a property but don’t have all cash, one way is through a no-financing contingency offer. A no-financing contingency offer is a way to pay all cash for a property without actually having all cash. From the buyer’s point of view, making a no-financing contingency offer is like
In early 2005, at the age of 28, I took out a $1,220,000 mortgage to buy a $1,523,000 house in San Francisco. After having bought a modest condo a couple of years earlier, I wanted to go all-in. In retrospect, this was a crazy amount of debt to take on at that age. When the
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