Six-Month LIBOR
Adjustable-Rate Loan Program EXAMPLE Disclosure
Fixed for First Three Years –
Interest Only
Important Mortgage Loan Information – Please
read carefully
This is an EXAMPLE disclosure. It describes
the features of the Adjustable-Rate Mortgage (ARM) program. Information on other ARM programs available from your Lender should be provided
upon request. This disclosure does not constitute a commitment to make a loan
to you. If you eventually obtain a loan, the Note, Security Instrument and
related documents will establish your legal rights and obligations regarding
the loan. Your Loan will most likely have its own disclosure that will most likely be different than this Example disclosure.
HOW YOUR INTEREST RATE AND PAYMENT ARE DETERMINED:
- Your initial interest rate is not based on the index
plus the margin. However, the initial interest rate may be equal to the index
plus the margin or may include a discount or may include a premium. If your
initial interest rate includes a discount, the initial rate will be lower than
the sum of the index plus the margin. If your initial interest rate includes a
premium, the initial rate will be higher than the sum of the index plus the
margin. Please ask your Lender for the initial interest rate, discount or
premium.
- Your interest rate will be periodically adjusted based
on an index rate plus a margin. Please ask your Lender for the current index
rate and margin.
- The index rate is the average of interbank offered
rates for six month U.S. Dollar-denominated deposits in the London market,
commonly referred to as the “LIBOR” index, as published in The
Wall Street Journal. If this index is no longer available a comparable
index will be substituted.
- The effective date of a change in interest rate is a
“Change Date”.
- Except for your initial interest rate, which may be
lower than, equal to or higher than the rate that is based on the index plus
the margin, the interest rate will equal the index rate plus the margin,
rounded to the nearest one-eighth of one percentage point (0.125%), unless your
interest rate “caps” limit the amount of change in the interest rate
on a Change Date.
- Please note that if your initial interest rate is lower
than the rate that is based on the index plus the margin, the interest rate may
increase on the first Change Date even if the index decreases.
- Payments made during the first ( ) years will be
applied towards interest only. This means that the regular monthly payments
will not reduce the principal balance during the first ( ) years of your loan.
- Beginning in year ( ), payments will be applied towards
principal and interest.
- During the period that you make payments of interest
only, your payment will be based on the interest rate and loan balance. After
that period, your payment will be based on the interest rate, loan balance and
remaining loan term.
HOW YOUR INTEREST RATE CAN CHANGE:
Your interest rate is fixed for the first
thirty-six (36) regularly scheduled monthly payments. Your interest rate can
change for the 37th regularly scheduled payment and every six (6)
months thereafter to the index rate plus the margin, subject to the following
limits:
- Your interest rate will be rounded to the nearest
one-eighth of one percentage point (0.125%).
- Your interest rate cannot increase or decrease more
than six percentage points (6.00%) at the first Change Date and two percentage
points (2.00%) increase or decrease per adjustment thereafter.
- Your interest rate cannot increase more than six
percentage points (6.00%) over the start rate over the term of the loan.
- Your interest rate cannot decrease to be less than the
margin over the term of the loan.
HOW YOUR PAYMENT CAN CHANGE:
- Your payment can change each time your interest rate
changes.
- You will be notified in writing at least twenty-five
(25) days before the due date of each adjustment. This notice will contain
information about your interest rate, payment amount and loan balance.
- Your payment may increase or decrease substantially
depending on changes in the interest rate.
INITIAL AND MAXIMUM INTEREST RATE:
For example, on a $10,000 thirty-year loan
with an initial interest rate of 3.375% (index * plus the margin ** rounded to
the nearest 0.125%), the maximum amount that the interest rate can rise under
this program is six percentage points (6.00%) to 9.375%, and the monthly
payment can rise from a first year payment of $28.13 to a maximum of 92.40 in
the 11th year.
* An index in effect on October 2, 2003
is 1.16. The index in effect at the time the initial interest rate is
established for your loan maybe different. The initial interest rate on your
loan may be lower than, equal to or higher than the rate that is based on the
index plus the margin.
** Margin of 2.25 percentage points.
This is a margin we have used recently. Your margin may be different.
CALCULATING YOUR PAYMENTS:
To see what your payments (excluding
escrow payments) would be, divide your mortgage amount by $10,000; then
multiply the loan payment by that amount. (For example, the monthly payment for
a mortgage amount of $60,000 would be $60,000/$10,000=6; 6 x
$28.13=$168.78).
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