Use the step-by-step worksheet below to give you a ballpark estimate of the time it will take to recover your refinancing costs before you benefit from a lower mortgage rate. The example assumes a $200,000, 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 5% and a current loan at 6%. The fees for the new loan are $2,500, paid ...Continue Reading »
What is a Deed?
A Deed is a document or a piece of paper that transfers title from one owner of real estate to another. The idea of having a document that gives the ownership of land from one person to another is more recent than you would think.
In the old days, since it was impossible to physically give land from one person’s hand to another person’s hand, it used to be necessary to have other ways of transferring ownerships. For instance, in ancient times since there were no Deeds, the Seller would have a meeting the Buyer on the land that was being sold.
The Seller would then in front of several witnesses give the buyer some sort of small token of the land, such as a tree branch or piece of earth. Now, of course there are Deeds to transfer the ownership of land from one to another.
not look like second mortgages
UNEDITED)How did something so right go so wrong? Americans cheered when they heard about affordable insurance for everyone.
Today, however, that dream has quickly faded and affordable care for everyone has now turned into an idea that every individual must purchase health care or be fined at the end of the tax year.
Most insurance premiums look more like a second mortgages. What many hard working American families could not afford in the first place is going to be forced upon them by our elected leaders. The justification for this was the costs of health care was going up because so many people either opted not to pay for the insurance or were unable to do so.
Sunday morning I read an AP Press release concerning a company called Anthem, or Blue Cross of California who wanted to raise the policy rates from 25 to as much as 39% on roughly 700,000 existing California customers. The article pointed out that Anthem Blue Cross is sending rate increases out to customers in at least three other states that will amount to 15% more for premiums. In Maine, Blue Cross is asking for an increase of 23% which is on top of a 32% increase last year. All in all the citizens of Maine will see premiums rise up to 55% in two years.
Source: http://www.standard.net/topics/opinion/2010/02/17/health-insurance-premiums-not-look-second-mortgages
