The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced this week that the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) limit for 2025 will be $1,209,750. In the industry, this is referred to as the “Max Claim Amount”. This is the ma
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When people retire, they often go from receiving a paycheck every two weeks to a fixed income. Many may also have businesses that they have just sold. With this comes freedom, but with this newfound freedom there is an expectation that the lif
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Here are the top five things you need to know about Reverse Mortgages. A Reverse Mortgage is simply a mortgage. Neither the lender nor the government assumes or receives any ownership swap for the benefits you receive from the reverse mortgag
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The most important aspect of accessing your home equity may be to limit unnecessary costs and keep your low rate first trust firmly in place. From there, you will have two distinct options. The first, and most advertised, may be the Home Equity Line of Cr
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How many of you would have loved to have had an affordable means of effectively purchasing a Put Option on your primary residence insured by the US Government prior, or even during, the housing crisis? This is what a Reverse Mortgage provides for eligible
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What do these Bank Statement programs do and how do they work? These programs represent a work-around of the stringent Federal “Ability to Repay” (ATR) rules that govern standard full documentation qualifying guidelines. This program is
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