Thursday, November 6, 2008

How to Sell Mortgage Notes

In the US, the mortgage notes are a promissory note which easily explains the loan amount and the interest rate which you will have to pay. Once it is signed no one can try to take it else wise. While the mortgage note easily explains and respect the title of the property. It easily explains the loan amount and the interest rate in advance. No body can really try to disobey the mortgage amount. You will be required to pay the amount in time.

Types of mortgages:
I will list some of the types of mortgages which are available. They are as follows:
1.Fixed rate mortgage ( FRM)
2.Graduation payment mortgage( GPM)
3.Adjustable rate mortgage( ARM)
4.An amortized schedule longer than the maturity period indicates a balloon payment mortgage.
5.There are some loans in which you are just to pay interest and not principal. These types of loan are called interest only loans.
6.Like bond, mortgage note offer investors a stream of payments over a period of time.
7.A payment adjustment frequency less than the interest rate adjustment frequency imply a mortgage which allow for negative amortization.

In US the mortgage debt sum is around $ 6.5 trillion. However as far UK mortgage debt consolidation is concerned, it amounts to $1.5 trillion. $1.93 trillion of sum was issued in the US bond market. This is roughly the GDP of United Kingdom.

I would not really like dishearten you but I must tell you about some of the risks which anybody has to face as far as loans are concerned.

The risk associated with mortgage notes is somewhat same as the bonds. They are as follows:
1.Credit risk
2.Interest rate risk
3.Prepayment risk

Mortgaging is not as risky if the rules and regulation are properly followed. You have every opportunity to take a loan and transfer it to some body. If some one is holding a private mortgage, this mortgage can always provide them cash and questions for the monthly payment which was previously paid to the previous owner.

Selling a mortgage note is a business which you can also pursue. However, you should make sure that you should have money to buy a mortgage note. If you have this much of mortgage money then you can always start this business.

I have listed all the risk and points related to mortgage notes and I hope that you will really have understood up till now that what is mortgage note and how can you make profit out of it. I must also tell you the advantages which mortgage note has over tax lien and tax deed certificate. In the former case you can take the monthly payment but with the later you will be paid only when lien or deed is redeemed.

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