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[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's awesome knowing my payment won't change aside from maybe a bit more each year due to any potential tax increase!

How do you not panic realizing interest rates are rocketing and you'll be priced out of your own home and you can see it coming and there's nothing you can do???

What a shit system that must feel like.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

aside from maybe a bit more each year due to any potential tax increase!

Also insurance increases.

Incidentally, my taxes and insurance are more than half of my total mortgage payment, and are responsible for it increasing something like 30% over a decade.

[–] omgarm@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Part of your house is paid off in that time. All mortgages are structured so that in 30 years they are paid in full. So if in 10 or 15 years you need to refinance somehow it will be cheaper than financing 100% of a residence.

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That doesn't mean shit if your rate goes from 3% to 8 % and your payment doubles.

Dit he math. Even if u buy a 300000 house and pay off a full third in 3 years which is absurd.

What's 200k at 3% vs 200k at 8%?

Go ahead, I'll wait.

[–] stolid_agnostic@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Not sure why the aggression...

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine being 10 or 20 years into your mortgage and suddenly you can't afford your payments anymore due to a rate increase. You have to sell the house and then try to find another one at the inflated rate and then start back from square one.

[–] S_204@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

You'd have to be wildly irresponsible to have that happen. Theoretically you've paid off well over half of your house after 15 years.