If you’re like most of us, you’ll have to get a mortgage to purchase a home. So what, exactly, is a mortgage?
The dictionary defines a mortgage as:
What that really means is that you borrow money from a lender to buy something valuable (in this case, a house). You agree to pay back the money you’ve borrowed within a certain period of time. On a mortgage, that’s generally 15 or 30 years, but yours could be different. If you fail to pay the money back, the lender gets to keep your house.
If you don’t pay, the lender will kick you out and re-sell the house to try to recoup the money they lost from your failure to pay; that’s a foreclosure.
There are several different types of mortgages, as well, which will affect the amount of money you must pay and the amount that a lender will agree to give you.
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