Honey, I Shrunk The Mortgage Interest Deduction – Plan 1
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The political landscape this year has been nothing but ugly. It promises to come to full boil with the proposed tax reform eliminating or reducing the mortgage interest deduction.
Tax Reform or Raising Taxes
There is an old saying about the two political parties. Democrats raise taxes while Republicans reform taxes. In both instances, we end up paying in addition money. In a very brave move, a bipartisan committee is recommending tax reform that goes after the beloved mortgage interest deduction.
The committee looking into tax reform was given a directive by President Bush to simplify a tax code that is universally agreed to be a disaster area. You may not realize it, but two additional sections are added to code every day on average. One of the particular problems is the Alternative Minimum Tax, which was originally designed to keep super wealthy people from avoiding taxes. Because it was written poorly, the AMT now affects a large percentage of people. The problem, however, is how do you get a make up for a tax that produces millions of dollars in revenue for the government?
The committeeÂ’s answer is to go after the mortgage interest deduction. The committee has offered two plans and weÂ’ll look at the first one here.
In the first plan, the mortgage interest deduction would be reduced to a figure related to the loan amount the FHA will back. The FHA was set up to help low income individuals get homes, which means the able cap on the deduction would be very low. In San Diego, the average single-family home costs in excess of $600,00. The FHA cap for the city is around $315,000, which means homeowners would lose approximately half of their deduction. In expensive real estate areas, this will mean many people will lose the ability to make their mortgage payments, which means defaults. With borrower defaults will come the end of the housing market boom. The loss of equity will, of course, cause many people to go upside down on their loan, which will be another disaster.
If Congress pursues a cap on the mortgage interest deduction, chaos will reign. It is hard to imagine this option being adopted by the politicians.
About The Author
Dan Lewis is a mortgage broker with http://www.gwhomeloans.com – San Diego mortgage brokers providing home loans and refinances. Visit http://gwhomeloans.com/services.html to learn increased about options for San Diego mortgages.
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Is an Interest Only Mortgage the Right Choice for You
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Tag: New Century Mortgage
If you’re looking to purchase a home anytime in the near future,
I’m sure you’ve at least heard of a mortgage program that is
gaining popularity known as an Interest- Only Mortgage. Unlike
major traditional mortgage programs that require you to repay a
portion of your principal with each payment, these programs only
require interest payments. The payments are, therefore, much
less. Does having a lower payment make this the right choice for
you?
The answer depends on what I call your financial discipline. Do
you have the ability to take the amount you are not paying back
on your mortgage each month and put the money to some better
use? Ask yourself these questions.
1. Do you pay your credit cards in full each month or at least
make substantially further than the minimum monthly payment? 2. Do
you contribute from every paycheck to your 401K plan or some
other tax deferred savings plan? 3. Do you have a personal
financial advisor such as a CPA, investment advisor, or
financial planner? 4. Do you own any other investments other
than real estate?
If you can answer “yes” to at least two of these questions,
you’ve probably got the financial discipline to find a better
use for the monthly principal payment on your mortgage other
than paying down the mortgage. Be sure to ask you mortgage
professional to review all of your options with you.
About the author:
Tim Garvey is a Certified Mortgage Banker by the Mortgage
Banker’s Association of America. Tim believes in providing
mortgage information with no strings attached and can be reached
via his website www.TGarvey.com
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Business Mortgage or Utah Mortgage?
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Are you looking for commercial lender in Utah that will offer
you a business mortgage? If you are new to Utah then there is
one thing you should understand, Utah is a peculiar state. So if
you visit your commercial lender in search of a business
mortgage then they might offer up a puzzled look and then say,
oh you mean a Utah Mortgage. To which you should reply, yes that
is exactly what I mean, a Utah mortgage. Now that you have the
Utah lingo down you will be able to work with you commercial
lender and hammer out the details to your business mortgage,
errr Utah mortgage that is.
Now you might ask, what exactly is the difference between a Utah
mortgage and a business mortgage? And your commercial lender
might have a really good answer. But chances are the commercial
lender will come clean and tell you a Utah mortgage is really
the same thing as a business mortgage.
Appealing to people searching for a business mortgage as well as
to people searching for a Utah mortgage is just another way for
the commercial lender to expand their reach. Most commercial
lenders are really good people at heart and as much as they like
to make money their real satisfaction is derived from helping
people like you and me. The foremost Utah commercial lenders have
learned through their market research and industry analysis that
there are a lot small businesses searching for the
aforementioned Utah mortgage. As a result they have broadened
their informational marketing efforts in hopes of reaching out
to those businesses that are in the market for a Utah mortgage.
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Of course, as you learn the terms and condition of the now
ubiquitous Utah mortgage, one quickly realizes that it resembles
the typical business mortgage. The average business mortgage is
a financial instrument issued by your commercial lender to
finance the cost of your office space. There are thousands of
businesses that take advantage of a business mortgage so that
they can occupy their own office building and be free of rental
obligations and the like all the while earning equity in the
land their office building sits on. Like you might expect, a
business mortgage is secured against the building and the
corresponding land. When you take out a business mortgage you
also agree to make monthly payments on the mortgage, just like
you do on your home mortgage.
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From fragmented technology to enterprise integration: the mortgage industry, for a long time, has been struggling with a patchwork of different systems . : An article from: Mortgage Banking
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Title: From fragmented technology to enterprise integration: the mortgage industry, for a long time, has been struggling with a patchwork of different systems that can’t communicate. Now the time has come for a different solution.(Cover Report: Technology)
Author: Dan Scheuble
Publication: Mortgage Banking (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2004
Publisher: Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Volume: 64 Issue: 6 Page: 56(6)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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Streamlining the process: what’s possible? Here are 10 benchmarks to gauge how far along your company is in its efforts to truly streamline the mortgage . : An article from: Mortgage Banking
This digital document is an article from Mortgage Banking, published by Mortgage Bankers Association of America on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 3336 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Streamlining the process: what’s possible? Here are 10 benchmarks to gauge how far along your company is in its efforts to truly streamline the mortgage process.(COVER REPORT: TECHNOLOGY)
Author: Dan Scheuble
Publication: Mortgage Banking (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: Mortgage Bankers Association of America
Volume: 65 Issue: 6 Page: 56(6)
Distributed by Thomson Gale
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