Like an ARM
at subprime rates with a monthly payment that would swallow an entire paycheck every month?
To lure or qualify them, brokers offered rates that were low for a couple of months or years, then shot up to
normal subprime rates.
While these are often considered bridge loans to fill a financing gap, they often are
for subprime rates, meaning you'll pay more for the loan.
What's important to realize is this: Just because a lender offers you a mortgage with an Alt - A or
subprime rate doesn't mean you wouldn't qualify for a prime - rate mortgage with a different lender.
The great crisis in the $ United States, known as the subprime crisis world over, happened due to lending
at subprime rates.
subprime rates are like 8 - 9 %....
Now assume you get the same 30 - year fixed rate mortgage for $ 200,000, but this time you are offered
a subprime rate of 6 %.