FHA Loans
FHA insured loans are also available to teachers and officers as a part of a HUD’s efforts to revitalize low to moderate income neighborhoods. Full-time state certified teachers, whether employed by public school or private, can purchase a home in their district using a FHA insured loan as long as they are in good standing with their employer. Likewise, full-time police officers can purchase a home with a fifty percent discount using a FHA insured loan and a $100.00 down payment.
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Bad Credit Refinance
Debt consolidation can help you get from under the stress and pressure of collections calls and the mountain of bills that come to you each month in the mail. Refinancing all of your small loans into one larger one will allow you to have one monthly payment. This will help you pay off your debt more easily, generally with a lower interest rate and often lower monthly payments. Also, lenders understand that applicants looking for to refinance in order to consolidate debt usually have damaged credit and so the requirements for this type of refinancing would be more lenient.
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Home Equity
The reverse mortgage is also an adjustable rate mortgage, but is unique because the homeowner (who must be 62 years or older) is at no time obligated to make monthly payments on the loan. The amount of the equity on the home is made available to the owner in full, in monthly advances or as a line of credit, only to be repaid after the life of the owner through the sale of the home or by the family if they would like to keep the home.
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Rates

There are several indexes on which interest rates are based:

• The Prime Rate is used by lenders for corporations and for their credit-worthy applicants. It is very stable and tends not to differ from bank to bank. The Prime Rate is used to predict the direction of rates, and the activity of consumer loans often follows that of this index.
• U.S. Treasury Security Yields is an average of monthly rates during the length of a one year U.S. Treasury security that is often used to set adjustable rate mortgage and is published yearly by the Federal Reserve Board.
• The 11th District Cost of Funds is also used to set adjustable rate mortgages and will often follow the same direction as the average of a one-year U.S. Treasury security. Monthly, the 11th Federal Home Loan Bank District, which includes California, Nevada and Arizona, publishes its weighted average interest rate for the prior month.
• Federal Funds Rate is set by the Federal Open Market Committee and is the interest rate on funds one bank lends to another overnight. This index affects inflation and economic growth, and is decided on by the Federal Open Market Committee.